Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, July 27, 2009... Nerds unite! A symphonic concert version of Star Wars will start in October. The symphony will play the classic John William... Continue reading "Today In Music News: Star Wars Music Comes Alive, American Music Fans Are Slow and Dawson Passes" >
On May 25th, 1977 Star Wars entered our collective consciousness. If you're old enough to remember the film's opening day, well, you're older than us; but George Lucas (bless his wookie heart) had at least thirty years of plot tinkering to do, thus ensuring all future generations would drop their allowance on toys you're not even supposed to take out of the goddamned box. ANYWAY, here at Stereogum we're gonna celebrate the only way we know how: by breaking down the sci-fi saga's greatest contributions to music, and not posting a Nerf Herder MP3. [...]