10:22 AM
Michael Giacchino has posted a bunch of new music to his website, including some MOHFrontline tracks and a whole page of Alias clips--which only makes me ache for an Alias soundtrack disc that much more. Note in this interview where he reveals that he scored each first-season episode in just three days.

In another interview (which offers more sound clips, by the way, and good news in that JJ Abrams not only wants an Alias soundtrack, he wants a Varèse Sarabande soundtrack--along with a big WTF in the form of the soundtrack album image at the bottom of the article) he says now in the second season he gets five days per episode. Wow. (As an aside, it does my freelancer's heart good to read the story of how he landed the Alias gig.)

Unfortunately, while Frontline is now available at the EA Store, it doesn't sound like there are any plans for a MOHAA soundtrack release. Man, listening to Gaincchio's music first makes me wonder when John Williams went so wrong--and then it makes me stop caring.

While I'm at it, I might reccommend checking out the site of Giacchino's assistant/collaborator Chris Tilton-- a little bit of Alias goodness if you dig deep enough, but also a lot of great stuff on his demo page. Also, Bill Brown, composer for the Rainbow Six games, RtCW, and Anachronox among other things, has posted a ton of music on his site.