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Lisa Schroeder’s latest book, The Day Before, was released on June 28.  Lisa wrote this guest blog about how and why she uses music in her books. Some of the reviews of THE DAY BEFORE have mentioned my use of songs (and movies in this case)and I thought it’d be fun to talk a little [...]

The lyrics of some of my favorite songs come across to me as poetry. A gifted songwriter is able to spin his or her words just the right way to weave a beautiful story and make it all work with a catchy tune. In 1987 I was listening to the radio in hicksville where I [...]

If I cant crawl inside of you, I‘m laughing with a broken face I stumble across my self-esteem. But to picture the pleasure Is making me want my space. Understand… That God wrapped you like a bow. But in my head… There’s some shelves that need cleaning from, Basement to ceiling, control. … THE ANSWER [...]

I grew up the daughter of a professional musician.  My dad is a guitarist, and an award winning guitarist at that.  My earliest memories of music involve hanging out in a recording studio,  sitting in a jazz club in New York City late at night and the time he and his friend came to my [...]

After seeing a movie, there is one thing more I get excited about. The movie’s score! For those of you who don’t know what a score is, the score is the instrumental compositions used in a movie. Soundtrack music is often just a compilation of popular songs. Only part of the song will be used [...]

As I have with the other 2 movies, I rushed out to pick up the soundtrack for The Twilight Saga’s Eclipse, the third installment of Stephenie Meyer’s “fangtastic” Twilight series. The lead single, “Muse’s Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever”) was released a few weeks ago. The score for the movie, will release on June [...]

I was so excited to open my email and see that my favorite band, Muse, will have the lead single for the movie Eclipse! The single, “Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever)” will be released on May 17. Stephenie Meyer has stated that Muse is one of her favorite bands and the band has had [...]

Is there anything more whimsical, dark, and captivating than an original movie soundtrack by Danny Elfman? Few things in this world come close in my opinion. Tim Burton and Danny Elfman are a match made in fairy tale land, the darker side of fairy tale land  of course. All of Elfman’s music is worthy of [...]

Around here we are huge, no I mean HUGE Blue October fans! The guys will be embarking on a new tour for 2010. They will start off in Europe Feb 27th and head to the States starting the US leg of the tour in Atlanta, Georgia April 7th. Visit their official website for all the details [...]