Soundtrack Your Life

Pop culture writer, Rachel Brodsky returns to Soundtrack Your Life to talk to Nicole and Ryan about the music that soundtracks the Christopher Storer hit television series, The Bear. With season 3 due in June, we decided to take a look at the massive amount of needle drops from the 1st 2 seasons of this dense award winning dramedy. From Dad rock to Swedish punk to Taylor Swift, we talk about all o...

Cultural theorist and host of the Nicstalgia Podcast, Nicole Tremaglio, joins Nicole and Ryan to discuss the soundtrack to the year 2000 McG directed film, Charlie’s Angels. The film was a huge success at the box office and the soundtrack was also a hit, with lead single “Independent Women Part 1” topping the Billboard Hot 100 for 11 consecutive weeks. Billboard named it the 18th most successful s...

Film Critic and writer, Lex Briscuso joins Nicole and Ryan to talk about the 2006 Sophia Coppola film, Marie Antoinette and it's iconic soundtrack. The soundtrack pulls from the 80s, 90s, and aughts with tracks from Gang of Four, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Strokes, Aphex Twin and more! Coppola put the soundtrack together with soundtrack supervisor, Brian Reitzell, who had worked with Coppola on...

Composer and pipa virtuoso, Ms. Min Xiao-Fen is our guest this week to talk about her recently released album Metta, in which she soundtracks 2 Chinese silent films, The Romance of the Fruits Peddler and Romance of the Western Chamber with new original music. She performs the scores on the pipa with River Gueguerian providing percussion. These scores were commissioned by the Smithsonian Institute...

Writer, Stephen Lee Naish joins Nicole and Ryan to talk about 4 soundtracks from films that Dennis Hopper directed: Easy Rider, The Last Movie, Out of the Blue, and Colors. Stephen just recently released a book on Dennis Hopper and these soundtracks called Music and Sound in the films of Dennis Hopper, which can be found here:https://www.routledge.com/Music-and-Sound-in-the-Films-of-Dennis-Hopper/...

It's that time of year again! Nicole and Ryan are here to break down the 2024 Oscars Best Original Song category. The Barbie Soundtrack was huge in 2023 so it has 2 nominations. Did you know that "I'm Just Ken" was written by the same people who co-wrote another Oscar winning song? Will Diane Warren finally win after being nominated for the 16th time? Why is Ryan glad that Joseph Gordon-Levitt did...

Emmy nominated composer, Robert Honstein is our guest this week to talk about the 2021 Peter Middleton and James Spinney directed documentary, The Real Charlie Chaplin. Honstein's Emmy nominated score for the documentary was just released in soundtrack form on December of 2023. It is his first film score. We discuss: Honstein's classical composition background and how that contributed to him being...

Perseverance Records founder, Robin Esterhammer, joins Nicole and Ryan to talk about his label's recent release, Forsaken Themes From Fantastic Films Vol. 2: Who Wants to Live Forever? The compilation features selections from Resident Evil (Mario Beltrami), Phantoms (David Williams), Dragon Soldiers (Edwin Wendler), as well as unused music from The Serpent and the Rainbow (Charles Bernstein), and...

Nicole and Ryan are back on February 5th with Season 5 of Soundtrack Your Life! Season 5 will be split in 2 halves, each half containing 10 episodes. The first half will be released between February and June (2 episodes per month)The second half will be released between August and December (2 episodes per month) We have an exciting mix of new and returning guests, and we'll also continue our tradi...

Happy Holidays! We've made it to the end of 2023 and Nicole and Ryan are ending the year by paying tribute to the great Paul Reubens aka Pee-Wee Herman, who passed away earlier this year. Christmas at Pee-Wee's Playhouse was released in 1988 as a primetime special but it still holds a special place in the hearts of our hosts. While the special has no official soundtrack, there are plenty of musica...

Pop culture writer and co-host of the InSync Podcast, Rachel Brodsky, returns to Soundtrack Your Life to talk to Nicole and Ryan about the soundtrack to Howard Deutch's 1986 film, Pretty in Pink. Rachel previously guested on this season's Dirty Dancing Soundtrack episode,Pretty in Pink is considered one of the best soundtracks of all time and we break down the big hits from the film, as well as th...

Musician and cat lover, Sean Faust, joins Ryan to discuss the soundtrack to Kevin Smith's directorial debut, Clerks. Being a New Jersey native, Sean has a deeper connection to the film than the average movie fan. He has also performed on a Christmas album with Brian O'Halloran and Scott Schiaffo's Wandering Wannabes. Ryan and Sean talk about how this small budget indie-film launched Kevin Smith's...

Dan Delgado, host of the Industry podcast and fellow Feedback with Earbuds list curator, joins Nicole and Ryan to talk about the Coen Brothers' 2013 film, Inside Llewyn Davis and its folk heavy, T Bone Burnett produced soundtrack. Juliard graduate, Oscar Isaac cut almost all of his tracks live, actually playing the guitar and singing. We Discuss: How this very bleak film is also very rewatchable H...

Manager of The Apples in stereo, Daniel Efram returns to Soundtrack Your Life to talk to Nicole and Ryan about Chad Stockfleth’s recently released and extremely well received Elephant 6 Movie, which Daniel was involved with as an executive producer. The film didn't technically have a soundtrack when we recorded this, so we talk about many of the great artists that make up the Elephant 6 Recording...

Pop culture writer and songwriter, Tara Giancaspro, returns to the podcast to talk to Nicole and Ryan about the soundtracks to Josh Schwartz's television series, The OC, which ran 4 seasons between 2003-2007 and launched the career of Schwartz (Chuck, Gossip Girl, Marvel's Runaways) and the many bands that were featured on the show. From Phantom Planet's iconic theme song, "California", to Seth Co...

Brian Colburn of My Weekly Mixtape returns to Soundtrack Your Life to talk to Ryan about the 1993 soundtrack juggernaut, Judgement Night. In season 2, Brian was our guest when we covered the soundtrack to That Thing You Do, so he definitely knows his way around a rocking soundtrack! We Discuss:-How this soundtrack was the brainchild of Happy Walters, manager of Cypress Hill and House of Pain-The e...

Courtney E Smith, host of the Songs My Ex Ruined Podcast, and writer for Eater Dallas, joins Nicole and Ryan to talk about the soundtrack to Ben Stiller's 1994 film, Reality Bites. The film is still thought of fondly by many because of how it captures the spirit of the 90s. The soundtrack was also successful and it even had a Billboard Top 100 #1 single with Lisa Loeb's "Stay", the first #1 single...

We’ve changed our Twitter (X) handle to @soundtrackcast to match our IG.Scott and Katherine from This Is the Greatest Song I’ver Heard in My Entire Life join Nicole and Ryan to discuss the soundtrack to the 2023 Greta Gerwig film, Barbie. (The episode starts spoiler free and mentions when the discussion of spoilers will begin.) Among topics discussed in this episode: Does this soundtrack hold up i...

Brad from the Pop Culture Yearbook Podcast is our guest to talk about the 1996 Ted Demme film, Beautiful Girls, which features the acting talents of Timothy Hutton, Noah Emmerich, Michael Rapaport, Mira Sorvino, Martha Plimpton, Laruen Holly, Rosie O'Donnell, Uma Thurman, Matt Dillon, and Natalie Portman. The soundtrack is equally stacked featuring songs from Pete Droge, The Afghan Whigs, Howlin'...

Jim from the Film Rage Podcast joins Ryan to talk about the 1986 film, True Stories, a film that was written and directed by David Byrne. David Byrne also stars in the film opposite the likes of John Goodman and Spalding Gray. Of course, with David Byrne, there will be a discussion of music! We Chat About: How The Talking Heads album, True Stories, isn't actually the soundtrack to the film Why Dav...

Pop culture writer, and host of The In Sync Podcast, Rachel Brodsky joins Ryan and Nicole to talk about the soundtrack to the 1987 film, Dirty Dancing. It’s one of the best selling soundtracks of all time and it features the Oscar and Grammy award winning hit (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life, which also topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks. We Discuss:Rachel growing up with the movie and the sou...

Every so often, we get an opportunity to interview a composer who actually soundtracks film. We always learn so much about the collaboration between composers and directors from these conversations and this week's episode is no different. We were delighted to speak with Jermaine Stegall, composer of films such as Coming to America 2, Praise This, Senior Year and Proximity. He's also worked with co...

Jen Howell from the EveryRomCom podcast joins Nicole and Ryan to talk about the 1983 Adrian Lyne film, Flashdance and it’s 6x Platinum soundtrack which is one of the best selling soundtracks of all time. Jen has a special appreciation for the film and soundtrack apart from the hit singles “Flashdance… What a Feeling”, which hit #1 on the Billboard charts for 6 weeks and “Maniac”.We breakdown:Giorg...

We have invited back Austin from I Hate Your Taste in Movies to talk about not just one soundtrack, but two! Brandice, Nicole and Ryan discuss the groundbreaking soundtrack to Shrek 1 with Austin, with even a passing mention of Shrek 3. These blockbuster films made a ton of money for Dreamworks at the box office, but the soundtracks to the original Shrek and it's sequel sold a ton of copies as wel...

Dina Friedman, producer of The Media Path Podcast, joins Ryan and Nicole to discuss the 1997 Peter Cattaneo film, The Full Monty. It was nominated for 4 Oscars and it ended up winning Best Original Score in a Musical or Comedy for Anne Dudley's "controversial" score. We discuss: How the movie went from an indie film to a huge hit. (grossed 250 million on a 3.5 million budget) Why Anne Dudley's sco...