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In an announcement that's bound to blow some minds, film score authorities Mondo have revealed they'll be delivering the music from Canadian body horror icon David Cronenberg's Scanners and The Brood on a single slab of vinyl tomorrow (January 13). The Mondo blog confirmed that the label has teamed up with Howe Records for a release placing Howard Shore's score to 1981's Scanners on the A-side and his "The Shape of Rage Suite" for 1979's The Brood on the flip.

Billy Boyd's The Last Goodbye - closing song on The Hobbit http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aRGTHLNNEOc

Matt Lawson discusses Howard Shore's score in the five (soon to be six) Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films.

The soundtrack to the Lord of the Rings film trilogy has been deemed the best of all time, beating John Williams' 1977 Star Wars score into second place.Composer Howard Shore's accompaniment won the Classic FM listeners' accolade for the fifth consecutive year.Hans Zimmer's music to Gladiator, Schindler's List by John Williams and John Barry's soaring Out of Africa score made the top five.

The Oscar-winning soundtrack to The Lord of the Rings has been voted the greatest film score of all time in a poll conducted by the radio station Classic FM. The score by Howard Shore beat such classics as Gone With The Wind and Dr Zhivago and was a testament, experts said yesterday, to the huge popularity of the film, which produced one of the highest box office gross figures of all time. Long-standing favourite soundtracks such as Casablanca, The Godfather and The Sound of Music were notable by their absence from the poll of more than 52,000 listeners. "It doesn't...

RETURN OF THE KING: Howard Shore Revisits Middle Earth for DVD It's not often you have the opportunity to hear an Oscar-winning score being recorded after it has already received an Academy Award - but it was my good fortune to be present at the recording sessions for the Special Edition Lord of the Rings DVD at Abbey Road Studios in London with composer Howard Shore. More often than not, the great film scores are performed just once: given voice by dozens of talented performers in a studio, destined never to be heard "live" by the public outside of the...