Devon E. Levins

Soundtrack music from the first talking picture onwards. If it was written to accompany images on a screen, we'll play it. Popcorn optional.
9/5/10 2:00 PM ET

8/22/10: Thunderstorms in the Forecast





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8/15/10: All Music From Films of 1969 This Week









August 15th is also Joe Castro's Birthday...
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7/25/10: How I Spent My Summer Vacation

My summer plans didn't exactly go the way I had hoped.  Fortunately I have been able to catch up on a lot of films, tv series and the like over the past few weeks.  This week's show is dedicated to the best music from the good, the bad and the ugly from such viewings...




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Heatwave!

Man, it's a scorcher!

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Will Gregory of Goldfrapp on Morricone Youth!

For more than a decade Goldfrapp, Allison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory, has been one of the U.K.’s most innovative and successful musical groups. Over the course of their six award winning albums, Goldfrapp has forged an international reputation for invention - seamlessly combining elements of film scores, electronics, disco, glam rock and folk into music of incredible style, wit and sensuality.

Tune in Sunday, July 11 at 2 p.m. for a very special session of Morricone Youth, during which Mr. Will Gregory will chat with DJ Gray Dolores - a.k.a. Misty Roses’ chanteuse, Robert Conroy - about Mr. Gregory’s favorite movie scores and composers, and the impact soundtracks have had on Goldfrapp’s music.
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Happy Father's Day!

This week's installment is dedicated to Dads everywhere!
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June 6, 2010: Africa/Safari Edition

Check the 6/6/10 archives for our OST tribute to South Africa, the host of the 2010 World Cup and the incredible country we just visited last month!

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May 30, 2010: Joe McGinty & Ward White on M.Youth

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May 9th: Lapis Lazuli (aka Kurt Wolf) on M. Youth!

On Morricone Youth, this Sunday May 9 - join DJ Gray Dolores as he converse with and spins the music by and favorite soundtrack selections of Lapis Lazuli! 

Lapis Lazuli is a solo instrumental project written, produced, and performed by Kurt Wolf on laptop, guitar, and analog synth.

Kurt Wolf is known for his contributions to downtown noise rock acts Pussy Galore, Boss Hog, Loudspeaker, Emma Peel, Foetus Inc.

Kurt Wolf was given the name by his good friends Antony and the Johnsons, hence the brand.

Lapis Lazuli music exists in kind of a parallel universe were soundtrack composers dominate the later part of the 20th century musical landscape.

A warped vision of what music from the era may have sounded like minus the utopian hippy hegemony of the late sixties and early seventies.  

  

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RIP Lynn Redgrave

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Ladies Choice: Rene Curates M.Youth on 5/2/10

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April 25, 2010: Rene's Birthday Show

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Spring Fever!

April showers bring may flowers!

Tom Waits - "You Can Never Hold Back Spring" video from Anti Records on Vimeo.

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John Epperson/Lypsinka vs. M. Youth - The Rematch

John Epperson/Lypsinka vs. Morricone Youth - The Rematch

This past November the fabulous Mr. John Epperson visited Morricone Youth and chatted with DJ Gray Dolores about films, film music, drag, drag queens and his ultra-glamorous-monstrous-alter ego, the mighty Lypsinka.

In fact Gray Dolores and he had such a good time and spent so much time yakking, the two were only spin a smidgen of the horde of brilliant/obscure soundtracks LP's Mr. Epperson brought to the station.

A rematch was threatened and said rematch is on!

Join Mr. Epperson and Gray Dolores as they spin a musical web of soundtrack glamour, terror, thrills and chills - this Sunday, March 14 from 2 to 4 p.m. (EST)

(And make sure to check out Mr. Epperson in concert at the world famous Birdland - as part of the Broadway at Birdland series - Sunday, March 21 at 6 p.m.!

 
JOHN EPPERSON IN CONCERT: AN EVENING WITH LYPSINKA’S MAID
 
Jim Caruso is proud to announce that John Epperson will be in concert at Birdland on Sunday, March 21 at 6pm.  This event is part of the Broadway at Birdland concert series, showcasing stars and composers from the Great White Way.
 
In a rare New York appearance, John Epperson (The Artist Principally Known As Lypsinka) appears as himself – without ladies’ finery – at the piano, singing in his own voice, and sharing an anecdotal interview with host Jim Caruso.  The evening promises to be a combination of a Victor Borge presentation, crossed with an “Inside The Actors Studio” discussion.  Epperson will share with the audience some of his favorite songs from the worlds of theatre, movies and pop.  If you miss this show, you’ll have to answer to Lypsinka!
 
John Epperson In Concert: An Evening With Lypsinka’s Maid
Sunday, March 21 at 6pm
Broadway at Birdland
315 West 44 Street, NYC
212-581-3080
Cover: $25, $35 with $10 food/drink minimum per person

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Oscar Pre-Party this Sun March 7th 2-4pm EST

You are cordially invited to an Oscar Pre-Party this Sunday, March 7 from 2 - 4 pm EST. 

Tune into your source for all things soundtrack, Morricone Youth, hosted by Devon E. Levins on East Village Radio for an Oscar film soundtrack listening party.  Expect award winning film scores and songs dating back to the 6th Academy Awards held in 1934, the year both the Best Original Score and Original Song categories were first added, to those nominated this year by the 82nd Academy Awards which will held a few hours later at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.  Your host might even throw in a few from this year which, in his opinion, were shamefully overlooked.  You will be the life of the party later in the evening with a fully formed opinion regarding the nominated film music categories...

Nominations for Best Original Score:


  • Avatar - James Horner
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox - Alexandre Desplat
  • The Hurt Locker - Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
  • Sherlock Holmes - Hans Zimmer
  • Up - Michael Giacchino

Nominations for Best Original Songs:


  • "The Weary Kind" - Crazy Heart - Music & Lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
  • "Take It All" - Nine - Music & Lyrics by Maury Yeston
  • "Loin de Paname" - Paris 36 - Music by Reinhardt Wagner & Lyrics by Frank Thomas
  • "Almost There" - The Princess and the Frog - Music & Lyrics by Randy Newman
  • "Down in New Orleans" - The Princess and the Frog - Music & Lyrics by Randy Newman







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OSTs by Artists Seen Live in NYC Recently

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Steven Severin on Morricone Youth February 21st

Steven Severin on Morricone Youth, Sunday February 21, 2 - 4 pm EST



Steven Severin first came to prominence as the bassist for Siouxsie and The Banshees, who emerged from the London punk scene in 1976 and went on to be one of the most iconic and influential British rock bands of all time.  Along with core members Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie, Severin co-wrote and co-recorded eleven albums whose impact on subsequent generations of musicians still reverberates today. Since The Banshees' dissolution in 1996, Severin has continued to make a name for himself as a composer of music for theatre and dance companies as well as film soundtracks including the infamously banned "Visions of Ecstasy."  Tune in this Sunday, February 21 at 2 p.m. EST for a special installment of Morricone Youth, as DJ Gray Dolores (Misty Roses vocalist Robert Conroy) chats with Steven Severin regarding his music, his favorite soundtracks and their influence on his work with Siouxsie and the Banshees and as a solo artist.


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Happy Valentine's Day xoxo Devon E. and Rene T.

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New Show Time SUNDAYS 2 - 4 pm EST

MORRICONE YOUTH has moved to a new time.  We can now be heard live on ON ANY SUNDAY afternoon from 2-4 pm EST!
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2010

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End of the Decade

Grey Dolores is on the decks this weekend and then we will do an end of the decade show on 12/26.
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Just Gimmie Indie Rock! OSTs from the 90s - 2000s

It's the end of the decade...tonight's show is dedicated to more recent soundtracks which I tend to overlook.  The playlist names read more like a college radio playlist from 10 years ago!
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MORRICONE III: Ennio Morricone's Birthday Show‏‏

Tune into your source for all things soundtrack, Morricone Youth, on East Village Radio this Saturday from 10 p.m. to midnight ET, for Morricone Youth's third annual tribute to the namesake of the show, Ennio Morricone. 

Considered as one of the most influential film composers of all time, composing for over 500 films and selling over 40 million records worldwide, Morricone wrote the film scores to such classics as Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns including "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" (1966), John Carpenter's remake of "The Thing" (1982), Brian De Palma's "The Untouchables" (1987) and Guiseppe Tornarore's "Cinema Paradiso" (1988).   Il Maestro turns 81 on Tuesday and doesn't appear to be easing up on his workload purportedly turning down composing Quentin Tarantino's most recent film "Inglorious Bastards" to focus on two more for Tornatore, "Baaria" and "Leningrad."  Host Devon E. Levins will be dedicating an entire two hours to his music in his honor.

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HALLOWEEN III: Season of the Witch on on MYRadio

Morricone Youth's third annual Halloween Soundtrack Show finally fell on Halloween Saturday and host Devon E. Levins was joined once again by childhood pal and all around grindhouse/exploitation film guru Warren Prewitt III continuing their semi-monthly Soundtrack Talk series on surviving 70-80s Las Vegas through cinema.  
 
This week's topic was the obvious, all things Halloween.  Tons of terrifying Italian giallo, slasher and grindhouse music interspersed with reflections on the two's upbringing filled with memories of white trash haunted houses, parent teacher association film festivals, Las Vegas Drive-Ins and Cinema 1-2-3 on Fremont Street -- PLUS part two of the tribute to Vic Mizzy who unfortunately passed on October 17th!

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