Industry Professionals

Interview with Frank Fitzpatrick

The Weekly Comet hosts Tamara Conniff & Jonathan McHugh welcome an award-winning film music producer, filmmaker, social entrepreneur, composer, record producer and songwriter Frank Fitzpatrick. Frank Fitzpatrick is the founder and director of non profit arts organization EarthTones. Fitzpatrick has created the soundtracks for over two-dozen films including “Queen of the Damned,” “Scary Movie 3,”…

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Interview with composer iZler

Tamara and John sit down with iZler, fresh off his win at the BMI awards for his work on Revenge. iZler is a rock star turned composer whose credits include Humboldt County, Revenge, and Shameless.

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“The Trouble With Bliss” Composer Daniel Alcheh Performs

Interview with Film Composer Daniel Alcheh

Independent film composer Daniel Alcheh brings a very special instrument on set to perform for Tamara and Jonathan in this clip from “The Weekly Comet”. Check out our full episode where Daniel talks about his latest original score for “The Trouble With Bliss” starring Michael C. Hall (“Dexter“), Lucy Liu (“Charlie’s Angels“) and Peter Fonda…

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Interview with “Vegas” Music Supervisor John Houlihan

Veteran music supervisor and music producer John Houlihan takes The Comet Couch and talks about working on the new CBS show, “Vegas,” starring Dennis Quaid and Michael Chiklis premiering September 25; his recent film “Looper” premiering September 28; and feature documentary for Sundance and A&E titled “Super Mensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon,” directed by…

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“Revenge” composer iZler answers your tweets!

In a bonus post show edition of The Weekly Comet, Tamara and John sit down with iZler to address the twittersphere’s question about the hit show Revenge. iZler is a rock star turned composer whose credits include Humboldt County, Revenge, and Shameless. In this edition, he talks about the differences between scoring films and television,…

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Interview with “Dexter” Composer Daniel Licht

Co-hosts Tamara Conniff and Jonathan McHugh welcome “Dexter” composer Daniel Licht to The Comet Couch. The seventh season of Showtime’s Emmy-winning series “Dexter” premiered to over 2.9 million viewers, making it the network’s number one telecast for the year. And award-winning compoer Daniel Licht provides the thrilling score to our favorite killer, using such odd…

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Emmy-Nominated Composer Miriam Cutler Interview

Emmy-nominated composer Miriam Cutler takes to the Comet Couch to talk about her new documentary “Ethel”, a full-length feature on the life of Ethel Kennedy, which premiered at Sundance 2012 and will be released on HBO this fall. Miriam is a renaissance woman. She started her career as a singer/horn player in a number of…

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Interview with NARM’s Jim Donio

Jim Donio, president of music business association NARM, sits down with The Weekly Comet. He talks about the 2013 NARM convention to take place in Los Angeles in May; Taylor Swift’s new album “Red,” which is expected to sell over one million copies in its first week; and consumer campaign “Give the Gift of Music,”…

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Interview with Composer Trevor Rabin

“Armageddon” and “National Treasure” composer and legendary Yes prog rocker, Trevor Rabin, talks about his first solo album in two decades, “Jacaranda.” His son Ryan Rabin of hot new band Grouplove, guests on the album, and according to Rabin, lives at home with his bandmates when not on the road! It’s a rock ‘n roll…

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Interview with Artist & Director Nick Egan

Artist, director and punk rocker Nick Egan sits down with co-host Tamara Conniff and KRCW DJ Jason Kramer to talk about his transition from album art, to fashion, to music video director, to feature director. Nick tells stories of working with the Clash, Oasis, Duran Duran, Bow Wow Wow, Iggy Pop, among others. Plus, he…

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Interview with Composer Kevin Manthei

Film, TV and video game composer Kevin Manthei, talks scoring “Ultimate Spider-Man” which airs on Sundays at 11:00 a.m., ET/PT on Marvel Universe on Disney XD. Plus he brings out two very special guests, his daughters Piper, age 12, and Keller, age 10. Piper lent her composing skills to The Cartoon Network’s action show “Generator…

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