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The Latest Breaking News from Daniel Blumberg

This bizarre historical musical only just came out – but its score has already guaranteed its place in our AV test room

Hymns like you've never heard them before

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The Testament of Ann Lee with Daniel Blumberg and Amanda Seyfried review – yelps, bells and bruised beauty

Live on stage the Oscar-winning composer’s score is disorientating, ecstatic and strange. Its star, Amanda Seyfried’s pure voice is the anchor in a brief but absorbing set

The Guardian - UK

‘I don’t want to do the same thing over and over’: Stacy Martin on risky roles, tequila at the Oscars and her Jurassic Park dream

After experiencing the strangeness of the Academy Awards with her last film The Brutalist, the indie actor has reunited with its creators for period curio The Testament of Ann Lee. But what she’d really like to get her teeth into is a certain dino franchise

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Amanda Seyfried spent a year preparing for The Testament of Ann Lee

Amanda Seyfried started her preparations for The Testament of Ann Lee a year in advance as she only had 34 days to shoot the movie.

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Paranoia, pop-dubstep and perfectly odd gems: the best old music we discovered this year

Strange folk, lost pop, disco oddities and, um, Dido – here are the forgotten tracks that became this year’s most replayed revelations

The Guardian - UK

Add to playlist: DJ Moopie’s charmingly moody experimental compilations and the week’s best new tracks

Connoisseurs of all things delicate and deeply felt will love the music put out by A Colourful Storm, the Melbourne-based DJ’s indie label

The Guardian - UK

‘I never thought about Oscars’: Brutalist composer Daniel Blumberg on the happiness and horror of his big win

The defiantly anti-commercial musician had walked away from mainstream success twice by his early 20s. Will his Academy Award convince him to embrace Hollywood, celebrity, the big bucks?

The Guardian - UK

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Artists told to leave Dalston street that nurtured Oscar winner

Hackney council calls time on Ashwin Street studio, neighbour to newly famous live music venue Cafe Oto

The Guardian - UK

Oscar winner’s shoutout for London music venue Cafe Oto stuns owner

The Brutalist composer Daniel Blumberg mentioned the experimental music space in his acceptance speech

The Guardian - UK

"When we talk about Black excellence, we’re talking about Quincy”: Tributes paid to Quincy Jones at last night’s Oscars

Queen Latifah performs Ease On Down The Road

MusicRadar

'The Brutalist' wins Oscar for best original score

First-time Academy Award nominee Daniel Blumberg is now an Oscar winner

The Independent UK

British composer Daniel Blumberg wins best original score Oscar for The Brutalist

Sole previous scoring credit on a full-length film for the singer, guitar player and visual artist is The World to Come

The Guardian - UK

How The Brutalist made its disorienting, dazzling score: ‘It was hammers and screws making music!’

OSCARS 2025: The Oscar-nominated soundscape of Brady Corbet’s awards frontrunner was often recorded before filming had begun, before being blasted out of speakers onto the set of the film during production. Kevin E G Perry speaks to composer Daniel Blumberg about his very novel approach to music – and his…

The Independent UK

UK enjoys bumper Bafta success despite no high-profile wins

A host of British talent picked up their first ever Bafta awards, including composer Daniel Blumberg and cinematographer Lol Crawley.

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The Independent UK

Elton John, Diane Warren and more react to 2025 Oscar music nominations

The 2025 Oscar nominations are here

The Independent UK

The Latest: The Golden Globes kick off award season

Hollywood is getting dressed up as the Golden Globes return for their annual champagne-soaked celebration of film and television workers at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California

TechRadar

How to watch Golden Globes 2025 online from anywhere, with Emilia Perez and The Bear leading the nominations

With Emilia Perez and The Bear leading the film and TV nominations respectively, here's how to watch Golden Globes 2025 from anywhere.

The Guardian - UK

‘We made horse semen into little shakers’: the quest for music’s most extreme sounds

From cannabis plants to screaming peacocks, swallowed microphones to babies in utero, musicians are rejecting regular instruments and software-derived sound

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