News
Big Mess Out Now via ANTI-/Epitaph
Mar 21, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Film composer (and former Oingo Boingo frontman) Danny Elfman has collaborated with Trent Reznor on a new version of the song “Native Intelligence,” from Elfman’s latest solo album, Big Mess. Reznor provides lead vocals on the new version. More
Big Mess Out Now via ANTI-/Epitaph
Jun 11, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Film composer (and former Oingo Boingo frontman) Danny Elfman has released his first new solo album in 37 years, Big Mess, today via ANTI-/Epitaph. Now that it’s out, you can stream the whole thing here. Also, today we posted our new interview with Elfman about the album. More
Big Mess Due Out June 11 via ANTI-/Epitaph
May 25, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Film composer (and former Oingo Boingo frontman) Danny Elfman is releasing his first new solo album in 37 years, Big Mess, on June 11 via ANTI-/Epitaph. Now he has shared the album’s final pre-release single, “Insects,” via a crazy animated video for the song. “Insects” is actually a reworked version of an old Oingo Boingo song of the same name. More
Big Mess Due Out June 11 via ANTI-/Epitaph
Apr 12, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Film composer (and former Oingo Boingo frontman) Danny Elfman has announced his first new solo album in 37 years, Big Mess, and shared a new single from it, “True,” via a video for the track. More
His Fourth Single for ANTI-/Epitaph
Mar 11, 2021
By Joey Arnone
Film composer (and former Oingo Boingo frontman) Danny Elfman has shared a video for his new song “Kick Me.” The video, which stars Elfman, was directed by Petros Papahadjopoulos and features animation by Joe Pascale. More
His Third Single for ANTI-/Epitaph
Feb 11, 2021
By Joey Arnone
Film composer (and former Oingo Boingo frontman) Danny Elfman has shared a video for a new song titled “Love in the Time of Covid.” The video, filmed in Berlin, features Scottish performer Shrek 666 and was created by filmmaker/photographer Sven Gutjahr and Elfman’s creative director Berit Gilma. More
His Second Single for ANTI-/Epitaph
Jan 11, 2021
By Christopher Roberts
Iconic film composer (and former Oingo Boingo frontman) Danny Elfman has shared a new single, “Sorry,” via a video for the track. More
This Marks Elfman’s First Solo Work in 36 Years
Oct 29, 2020
By Joey Arnone
Iconic film composer (and former Oingo Boingo frontman) Danny Elfman has just released a new single titled “Happy” shortly after signing with ANTI-/Epitaph. This is Elfman’s first solo work since the release of his album So-Lo in 1984. More
Soundtrack Now Available from Lakeshore Records
Nov 23, 2015
By Austin Trunick
We’re excited to premiere a rare, candid interview between Danny Elfman and filmmaker James Ponsoldt, in which the composer opens up to Ponsoldt about the inspirations that went into his score for The End of the Tour, his writing approaches to big versus small and orchestral versus non-orchestral scores, and how he still gets nervous whenever he plays a new score to a film’s director for the first time. More
Oct 01, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Tim Burton and Danny Elfman. Danny Elfman and Tim Burton. Over the years, from Edward Scissorhands, to Beatlejuice, to Sleepy Hollow and Alice in Wonderland, it’s difficult to imagine one without the other. Now the unique relationship between musician and filmmaker is being feted in The Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box (out this December via Warner). More
Interviews
Middle-Class Socialist Brat
Jun 11, 2021
By Jake Uitti
The famed, prolific composer, and multi-instrumentalist, Danny Elfman, is a walking, talking opus. While some artists make a career of performance art, Elfman’s career is often seemingly performance art, embodied or personified. More