The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Locals 7 (Orange County, CA), 47 (Los Angeles), and 581 (Ventura, CA) unions on behalf of seven nonmember musicians. The lawsuit alleges the careers of these musicians were seriously damaged by union actions.

Audio Impressions’ has announced Version 2.0 of DVZ Strings, their new high-resolution virtual-instrument strings library

ProSonus has shipped the Studio Channel, a new device that features a tube-based, Class A mic/instrument preamplifier, VCA-based compressor; and a three-band parametric equalizer

Mac software developer Audiofile Engineering is now shipping Wave Editor 1.4, the latest update to their audio editing application

VSL advances the ball with their new Vienna Effects Suite and a major problem/solution update to their Vienna Ensemble 3 that have most composers singing, “c’mon get happy.”

Rob Lane, who recently wrote the acclaimed music for BBC’s hit fantasy series Merlin (soundtrack CD available here), is doing the score for The Damned United, a British feature film based on the David Peace novel about Brian Clough’s short (44 days) reign as the coach of football team Leeds United. Tom Hooper, who has [...]

The new American version of Veronika Decides to Die, based on Paulo Coelho’s best-seller, gets a score by British composer Murray Gold, best known for his popular Doctor Who music. The film is directed by UK helmer Emily Young, who previously worked with Gold on her first feature film, Kiss of Gold, released in 2003. [...]

Patrick Cassidy, who is best known for his musical contribution “Vide Cor Meum” to Ridley Scott’s Hannibal, has composed the original score for Edgar Allan Poe’s Ligeia, a horror film directed by first time helmer Michael Staininger and starring Wes Bentley, Kaitlin Doubleday and Mackenzie Rosman. The film, which is awaiting distribution, tells the story [...]

Elliot Goldenthal will write the music for Julie Taymor’s The Tempest, based on the famous Shakespeare play. This will be the fourth feature film project for the married couple, following Titus, Frida (which earned Goldenthal an Academy Award) and last year’s Across the Universe. Inventive as always, Taymor is switching the gender of Prospero to [...]

Versatile composer Christopher Lennertz has two new features coming up. He is doing the music for The Open Road, starring Justin Timberlake and a fine ensemble cast with Jeff Bridges, Kate Mara, Mary Steenburgen, Harry Dean Stanton and Lyle Lovett. Bridges plays Timberlake’s estranged father, a baseball legend, and the film follows them on a [...]