Our good friends at CNN HLN asked us to compose the theme for their newest show “Dr. Drew,” starring everyone’s favorite addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky, best known for “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” and “Sober House” on VH1, as well as the national radio show “Loveline.” The show premieres tonight at 9pm est on HLN. Given HLN’s sonic brand — which tends to feature a quick, upbeat pace — […]
Read More »Remember when SXSW was just a great music festival? We do. But as anyone with a computer knows today the festival is about so much more. Technology, film, comedy, food, social networking, and of course great music — SXSW encompasses all of it and much more. If you were in Austin last week than you know how fun it was. If you weren’t here a few links to show you […]
Read More »Good music is a bipartisian issue, at least that’s what our intrepid sales force of Michael Finnegan and Noelle Alanis found out during a recent trip to Nation’s capital. Check out the pictures…
Read More »TV commentator Lou Dobbs returned to the airwaves last night on the FOX Business Network (FBN) with his new show “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” Setting the tone was the show’s opening theme that comes from The Vault, the elite library of music maintained by Stephen Arnold Music . We’ve worked with FBN in the past on a number of sonic branding projects. This time they selected a hard-edged guitar-driven track recorded […]
Read More »Earlier this week I came across this series of stories on NPR that looks back fondly on lost audio formats, with the first story on the history of 8-Track tapes. A quick survey of the Stephen Arnold Music staff found that most had never seen an actual 8-Track let alone owned any. Except of course Stephen himself, who not only owned them, he still has an actual working 8-Track recorder […]
Read More »Our good friends at Golf Channel came to us recently to capture the musical identity of two of their new shows. “Morning Drive” is a brash new entry into the world of morning sports talk. “Pipe Dream” is a 10-part reality series chronicling 53-year old pro golfer Mark Burk’s journey to restore his golf career. Check ’em out below:
Read More »It’s Super Bowl week, AND the Super Bowl is being played here in Dallas, so we here at Stephen Arnold Music are twice as excited (at least most of us are). And even if the game’s a blowout, the ads always deliver. We asked some of our crew here for their favor Super Bowl ad and a game prediction. Here’s what we came up with. Noelle Alanis: Prediction: “The Colts […]
Read More »We had this idea. With so many stations dealing with reduced staffs and working within increasingly tight budgets, we wondered wouldn’t it be cool if we could create a fresh, no-hassle on-air look for the morning news — an increasingly valuable part of every station’s daily schedule. Thus “It’s All About Early’ was born. This is a video AND audio package designed to make local stations look and sound better […]
Read More »When one thinks of the Golf Channel you might not immediately think of it as the likely home for a new show about a homeless man seeking to redeem himself through his love of golf, but that’s the story behind their new reality series “Pipe Dream” — the story of Mark Burk, a pro golfer who had it all, lost it all and is now working his way back to […]
Read More »On Tuesday of this week, Stephen and Chad were interviewed by Dan Daley of the Sports Video Group. In the 1987 film Broadcast News, real-life film-score composers Marc Shaiman and Glen Roven had a cameo as dorky musicians trying to pitch a new theme song for the network’s nightly news broadcast. They frantically introduce the parts as they sing them — “Now comes the counter melody!” — and signal the piece’s […]
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