Sep 13, 2022 By Joey Arnone

John Carpenter, alongside his musical counterparts Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, have announced the release of the official soundtrack for the upcoming film Halloween Ends, which will be out on October 14 via Sacred Bones. A new musical piece from the soundtrack, “The Procession,” has been shared, along with an original song by Northampton-based electronic duo Boy Harsher (Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller) entitled “Burn It Down.” More

May 03, 2022 By Joey Arnone

John Carpenter, alongside his musical counterparts Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, have shared a new song, “I’ll Find You.” It is the latest release from the soundtrack for the upcoming film adaptation of Stephen King’s Firestarter. It will be out on October 14 via Sacred Bones. More

Apr 21, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Legendary horror director and composer John Carpenter, alongside his musical counterparts Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, have announced the release of a soundtrack for the upcoming film adaptation of Stephen King’s Firestarter. It will be out on October 14 via Sacred Bones. The film’s end title theme has just been released. More

Sep 30, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Legendary horror director and composer John Carpenter, alongside his musical counterparts Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, has shared the unsettling piano requiem “Michael’s Legend.” It is the latest release from the soundtrack to the upcoming film Halloween Kills. The soundtrack will be out on October 15, the same day of the film’s release, via Sacred Bones. More

Aug 06, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Scottish electro-pop trio CHVRCHES have shared a remix of their song “Good Girls” done by legendary horror director John Carpenter. In return, Carpenter has shared a CHVRCHES remix of his song “Turning the Bones,” taken from his most recent instrumental album, Lost Themes III: Alive After Death. More

Dec 07, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Iconic horror film director and composer John Carpenter is releasing a new album, Lost Themes III: Alive After Death, on February 5 via Sacred Bones. Now he has shared another song from it, “The Dead Walk,” via a creepy visualizer video. More

Sep 04, 2019 By Austin Trunick

The deluxe 2LP edition adds 24 tracks and a lenticular sleeve, and is out on October 18th from Sacred Bones. More

Sep 13, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Iconic horror film director and composer John Carpenter has shared a new video for “Christine,” a track from his upcoming Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998. “Christine” is a re-recorded version of Carpenter’s theme to his 1983 movie of the same name, an adaptation of the Stephen King novel. More

Aug 22, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Iconic horror film director and composer John Carpenter has previously released two albums of original music inspired by his movie themes, 2015’s Lost Themes and 2016’s Lost Themes II. Now he has announced a new album, Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998. More

Sep 26, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Iconic horror film director John Carpenter released Lost Themes II back in April via Sacred Bones, a sequel to his 2015-released Lost Themes album. Now he has shared a video for “Utopian Façade.” Befitting the director, it features a female android in a TRONmeets Storm Trooper type outfit on the run from some zombies and other monsters. More

May 06, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our May/June 2016 issue (out May, June, and into July), which has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon. It will also soon be available digitally via Under the Radar‘s app, and the magazine apps Zinio, Readly, and Readbug. The issue features M83 on the cover. More

Apr 04, 2016 By Joshua M. Miller

In advance of the release of his new album Lost Themes II next week, legendary filmmaker and composer John Carpenter has shared a new video capturing the horror movie filmmaker performing album single “Distant Dream” in the studio. More

Mar 09, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Iconic horror film director John Carpenter is releasing Lost Themes II on April 15 via Sacred Bones, a sequel to his 2015-released Lost Themes album. Carpenter has long composed music for his films (which include such classics as Halloween, The Thing, Escape From New York, and They Live), but Lost Themes was his first album of original music not recorded for a particular movie and the sequel continues that. More

Feb 17, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Iconic horror film director John Carpenter is releasing Lost Themes II on April 15 via Sacred Bones, a sequel to his 2015-released Lost Themes album. Carpenter has long composed music for his films (which include such classics as Halloween, The Thing, Escape From New York, and They Live), but Lost Themes was his first album of original music not recorded for a particular movie and the sequel continues that. More

Oct 16, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Iconic horror film director John Carpenter is releasing Lost Themes Remixed today via Sacred Bones, a remix record taking on his recent Lost Themes album. Carpenter had long composed music for his films (which include such classics as Halloween, The Thing, Escape From New York, and They Live), but Lost Themes (released back in February) is his first album of original music not recorded for a particular movie. More

Sep 30, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Here’s a mix of other news today that weren’t able to do full news items on. Included in this news mix are summary items on Antony and his comments on the Pope, Daughter’s new album and video, John Carpenter’s live debut, Flying Lotus’ short film trailer, Trent Reznor and The Haxan Cloak’s Moog documentary, a new song from Nils Frahm and Ólafur Arnalds, J Fernandez’s video, Keep Shelley in Athens’ new song, Pure Bathing Culture’s live video, Tyler The Creator’s animated show, an unreleased Neneh Cherry song, Ty Segall’s new band, and more. More

Aug 28, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

1970s French electronic music legend Jean-Michel Jarre has long been teasing his new album, previously announcing that it featured such collaborators as Massive Attack, Gesaffelstein, and Tangerine Dream, and releasing the video for “Glory,” his song with fellow Frenchman M83. More

Jan 12, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

With only a few exceptions, director John Carpenter has scored every one of his own motion pictures, most famously Halloween and Assault on Precinct 13. More

Nov 03, 2017 By Austin Trunick

For someone with such a looming influence on both film and film music, Carpenter doesn’t spend much time dwelling on the past. He quite famously doesn’t watch his films once he’s finished them, and offers modest, straight-forward answers when pressed about past works. And thus, Anthology: Movie Themes 1974 – 1998 – a new album on which Carpenter re-recorded many of his best-known scores with his son, keyboardist Cody Carpenter, and godson, guitarist Daniel Davies – may be the closest thing we ever see to Carpenter reflecting on his career. More

Jun 15, 2016 By Austin Trunick

Dim the lights,” says John Carpenter, revered filmmaker and musician. “Put the album on…. Close your eyes and just let your mind go. Tap into that invisible movie that plays in your head. Let it flow, and let our music be your soundtrack.” More

Oct 17, 2016 By Austin Trunick

Twelve men are all who occupy U.S. Outpost 31, a remote research station deep in the Antarctic. More

Apr 18, 2016 By Alee Karim

Now that budgets for films that reside in John Carpenter‘s wheelhouse have become all but extinct, the auteur behind iconic films like Halloween and Escape from New York has taken his side hustle as a film composer—and popularizer of the analog synth—into the spotlight. More

Feb 03, 2015 By Michael Wojtas

John Carpenter‘s image has long been that of a highly individualistic master craftsman with a throwback sensibility. In addition to directing, he’s often written his own scripts, occasionally produced and edited his own films, and almost always created his own synthesized scores. More