With a solid twenty years under its belt, various art installations, DVD releases, and the widespread availability of the series via Netflix streaming, the cult that is Twin Peaks fandom has never been larger — or louder. It would be an understatement to say this is a very different landscape from the days of shoddy, [...]

Over the past 25 years the collaboration between David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti has yielded many a monster—producing some of cinemas most gothic, memorable and atmospheric scores. A relationship that began with Lynch’s 1986 dark masterpiece Blue Velvet, in which Badalamenti was brought on board to flesh out the aural landscape, the film also marked [...]

“A candy colored clown they call the sandman, Tiptoes to my room every night” – Roy Orbison David Lynch: auteur/soundtrack enthusiast/hypnosis pundit. Here we have a filmmaker who absolutely transforms the songs he incorporates in his films into his own — Aural puddy in his hands. Can anyone really hear Bobby Vinton’s “Blue Velvet,” without [...]