Soundtrack album. The * for Joyful Noise, an inspirational, music-driven ensemble piece from director Todd Graff (Bandslam, Camp), features 12 stirring cuts that draw from gospel, country, pop, rock, and rhythm & blues. Led by the film's stars, Dolly Parton and Queen...

Those kings of cinematic quirkiness, the Coen brothers, fashioned their film O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? as a contemporary adaption of Homer's Odyssey, centering around a group of American chain-gang prisoners. The film's earthy Southern setting makes it a natural ...

Broadway musical JERSEY BOYS brings to the stage the story of 1960s singing sensations Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, recounting their rise from working-class kids to pop-music superstars. The *, naturally, is filled with Four Seasons hits, including timeless...

Alexander Payne's 2011 family dramedy The Descendants takes place in Hawaii, so who better to occupy the film's * than some of the region's most notable musical icons. Payne (Sideways, About Schmidt) has always been one to cast the environment...

The * to Christina Aguilera's silver screen debut Burlesque shines the spotlight on Xtina, who is in full-bore diva mode -- a return to the splashy swing of Back to Basics after the robotic R&B of Bionic. Of course, many...

There was a year's delay before this film, which concerns the mysterious death of a fictional '60s rock star, took off via video and cable TV, but when it did, the * album, featuring such songs as "On the Dark...

Music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lyrics by Charles Hart. It's a testament to Andrew Lloyd Webber's crowd-pleasing compositional skills that the original cast recording of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA went on to become the biggest-selling cast album ever. So ...

Featuring music from the first four seasons of the FX original series Sons of Anarchy, this album pulls some of the best music composed for the show into one collection. Including the show's theme, "This Life," as well as country-fried ...

The * to the Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim McGraw country music drama Country Strong is a collection of mainstream contemporary country that has a mild pop bent but stays just this side of country-pop. Instead, it follows the blueprint of...

Digitally remastered by Joseph M. Palmaccio (Polygram Studios). The disco revival came in the mid-90s and white suits, dodgy shirt collars and trousers with massive flares were once again the order of the day. While this album's success drove people mad ...

A celebration of three decades worth of music from Woody Allen's films, including songs from Manhattan, Radio Days, Hannah & Her Sisters, Purple Rose of Cairo, Bullets Over Broadway, Celebrity, Mighty Aphrodite, Sweet & Lowdown, Match Point, Scoop, Vicky Cristina ...

A * to a movie so appalling that it is infinitely wiser to let the record stand on its own merits. While Prince cavorted in purple kitchen foil and rode his Harley in high heels, the real star of the...

The * to the sequel for Eddie & the Cruisers follows the basic blueprint of John Cafferty's songs for the first film -- they're all high-energy, pounding three-chord rock & roll, sounding a bit like Bruce Springsteen or Bob Seger....

Jim Steinman (the melodramatic writer behind Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell) is the author of many of the tracks here, and they have his typical rock & roll Sturm und Drang, especially when the backup group consists of members ...

The non-score * for Real Steel, director Shawn Levy's surprisingly emotive sci-fi family action film about boxing robots, opens rough and ready with "Fast Lane" from Bad Meets Evil, which features Royce da 5'9" and Eminem. What follows is a...

The non-score * for Underworld: Awakening, the fourth installment in the popular fantasy/horror series, offers up another jet-black set of hard-driving, atmospheric, goth-metal/electro/industrial/emo-rock anthems for the socially disenfranchised, including standout cuts from Civil Twilight ("How'm I Supposed to Die"), Stella...

Live Recording Recorded at Filmways/Wally Heider Recording Studios, United ...