Tuesday, 3/19/24
Talking about the score to FX's Shogun
The 17 song, 46 minute long soundtrack for the FX series Shōgun is available for preview on Spotify and Apple Music, but what we'll be able to hear soon(?) is only a sliver of the four hours of music that Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross, and Nick Chuba spent over two years putting together. Variety spoke with Atticus and Leopold about the process:
“Texturally, we are in the right place in terms of time and instrumentation, but we are also threading that needle of being free enough to do something that is wholly original,” Atticus adds. “To acknowledge its time and place but not be constrained by it, and also not be a kind of pastiche” that might be condemned as cultural appropriation.
Continue to Variety for the whole interview, and visit the official Shogun website for links to Spotify and Apple previews of the commercial release.
Reported by leviathant at 20:30
Nine Inch Nails x Welcome Skateboards
If you subject yourself to the nin subreddit, you might have spotted a post late last week about a skateboard collaboration, which was today announced by various official NIN social media accounts.
As the day wore on, additional information about the collaboration leaked - not only were there skate decks with artwork associated with TDS-era NIN, but associated apparel is coming out too. New shirts associated with Hurt, Piggy, Closer, Heresy, Ruiner, Eraser, and more - and not just tshirts, but puff hoodies, a mesh 'football jersey', and more - a celebration of The Downward Spiral's release in 1994.
I'm not going to spoil the whole lot, but here's a peek:
I'm not too proud to admit that as a 44 year old dude who grew up in central Pennsylvania, steeped in skater culture, this stuff calls to me. It's a nice surprise, and makes me wonder what else 2024 has in store for my favorite album from 1994 - an exceptionally good year for music.
As the day wore on, additional information about the collaboration leaked - not only were there skate decks with artwork associated with TDS-era NIN, but associated apparel is coming out too. New shirts associated with Hurt, Piggy, Closer, Heresy, Ruiner, Eraser, and more - and not just tshirts, but puff hoodies, a mesh 'football jersey', and more - a celebration of The Downward Spiral's release in 1994.
I'm not going to spoil the whole lot, but here's a peek:
I'm not too proud to admit that as a 44 year old dude who grew up in central Pennsylvania, steeped in skater culture, this stuff calls to me. It's a nice surprise, and makes me wonder what else 2024 has in store for my favorite album from 1994 - an exceptionally good year for music.