On this day in music history - Lord of Light, by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2021):

Lord of Light

Song by Fiona Joy Hawkins,
released March 19, 2021.

On this day in movie history – Violet (2021):

Violet

directed and written by Justine Bateman,

was released at the South by Southwest Film Festival in the United States on March 18, 2021.
Music by Vum.

Cast:

Olivia Munn, Luke Bracey, Justin Theroux, Dennis Boutsikaris, Erica Ash, Zachary Gordon, Todd Stashwick, Bonnie Bedelia, Peter Jacobson, Jim O'Heir, Simon Quarterman, Laura San Giacomo, Rob Benedict, Keith Powers, Cassandra Cardenes, Al Madrigal, Rain Phoenix, Steve Agee, Anne Ramsay, Colleen Camp, Jason Dohring, Jordan Belfi, Federico Dordei, James C. Victor, Matt Ingebretson, Liliana Mijangos, Brooklynn MacKinzie, Jakari Fraser, Mason Wells, Kathleen Wilhoite, Annica Liljeblad, Joe D'Angerio, W. Tré Davis, Erin Cantelo, Jack Nicholls, Antonio Raul Corbo, Nicole Gabriella Scipione.

On this day in music history - The Long Goodbye, by Laura Sullivan (2021):

The Long Goodbye

Instrumental track by Laura Sullivan,
released March 11, 2021.

On this day in movie history - Land (2021):

Land

directed by Robin Wright,

written by Jesse Chatham and Erin Dignam,

was released in the United States on February 12, 2021.
Music by Ben Sollee and Time for Three.

Cast:

Robin Wright, Demián Bichir, Sarah Dawn Pledge, Kim Dickens, Warren Christie, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Brad Leland, Jordan Bullchild, Dave Trimble, Rikki-Lynn Ward, Mia McDonald, Barb Mitchell, Dennis Corrie, Valerie Planche, Laura Yenga, Randolph West, Darin Grisdale, Darren Poirier, Thomas Komarniski, Shawn Loo, Edmund Gee, Maureen Bronner, Matthew Godden, Jordan Gooden, Vattanak Khun, Bud Klasky, Faith Louissaint, Travis Gordon Phillips, Mike Richards, Jill Maria Robinson, Daniel D'Angelo Sparks, Steve Tsang, Travis Willier.

Recommended reading - Street with No Name (2021)

Street with No Name

A History of the Classic American Film Noir

By Andrew Dickos.

Published by The University Press of Kentucky.

Published 2021.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0813152194

ISBN-13: 978-0813152196

Description:

"The best book available on the genre of movies set in the dark, wet streets of the urban US." – Choice.

"A concrete, concise study of noir against an impressive historical vista that brings to light the complex relation between alienation and obsession that makes up these films." – Rain Taxi Review.

"Dickos provides a sharp critical and psychological evaluation of a genre that continues to mutate long after many pronounced it dead." – Shepherd Express.

Andrew Dickos's Street with No Name traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interwar years. Dickos describes the development of the film noir in America from 1941 through the 1970s and examines how this development expresses a modern cinema. He argues that, in its most satisfying form, the film noir exists as a series of conventions with an iconography and characters of distinctive significance. Featuring stylized lighting and urban settings, these films tell melodramatic narratives involving characters who commit crimes predicated on destructive passions, corruption, and a submission to human weakness and fate.

Unlike other studies of the noir, Street with No Name follows its development in a loosely historical style that associates certain noir directors with those features in their films that helped define the scope of the genre. Dickos examines notable directors such as Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger, and Robert Siodmak. He also charts the genre's influence on such celebrated postwar French filmmakers as Jean-Pierre Melville, Francois Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard.

Addressing the aesthetic, cultural, political, and social concerns depicted in the genre, Street with No Name demonstrates how the film noir generates a highly expressive, raw, and violent mood as it exposes the ambiguities of modern postwar society.

On this day in television history - The Stand (2020–2021):

The Stand

9-episode mini-series.

Directed by Josh Boone, Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy, Chris Fisher, Vincenzo Natali and Tucker Gates.

Written by Stephen King, Josh Boone, Benjamin Cavell, Jill Killington, Owen King, Knate Lee, Eric Dickinson, Taylor Elmore.

Based on the novel by Stephen King.

Released in the United States on December 17, 2020 – February 11, 2021.

Music by Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott.

Cast:

James Marsden, Odessa Young, Alexander Skarsgård, Whoopi Goldberg, Gordon Cormier, Amber Heard, Jovan Adepo, Owen Teague, Irene Bedard, Brad William Henke, Nat Wolff, Henrique Zaga, Greg Kinnear, Nicholas Lea, Eion Bailey, Katherine McNamara, Olivia Cheng, Fiona Dourif, Tarun Keram, Ezra Miller, Gabrielle Rose, Natalie Martinez, Jason Burkart, Paul Jarrett, Mark Gibbon, Sunita Prasad, Seth Whittaker, Hamish Linklater, Kendall Joy Hall, Daniel Sunjata, Cameron McDonald, Luis Javier, J.K. Simmons, Kristy Dawn Dinsmore, Jennifer-Juniper Angeli, Curtiss Cook Jr., Angus Sampson, Heather Graham, Spencer Drever, Reese Alexander, M.J. Kokolis, Primo Allon, Harrison MacDonald, Nyla Alleyne, Clifton Collins Jr., Ariana Nica, Todd Matthews, Isla Crerar, Peter Anderson, Rob McEachern, Troy Mundle, Jagua Arneja, Briar Diallo, Tim Carlson, Tebo Nzeku, Alexis Paige Dixon, Shadi Janho, Bruce Blain, David Parent, Miles Chalmers, Brandyn Eddy, Lisa Chandler, Arkie Kandola, Darren Dolynski, TJ Kayama, Mariessa Portelance, Angela Moore, Joe Costa, Fletcher Donovan, Donald Sales, Liza Huget, Lissa Neptuno, Veena Sood, Kim Kondrashoff, Eddie Flake, Hugo Raymundo, Jesse Stanley, Camden Filtness, Jasmine Lukuku, Mike Wasko, J. Douglas Stewart, Shishy Gebru, Myles McCarthy, Leah Hennessey, Jeremy Jones, Richard Meen, Sean Millington, Jenny Mitchell, Iris Paluly, Luvia Petersen, Lisa Renee Pitts, Michel Issa Rubio, Eric Ruggieri, Carolyn Tinglin, Danny Wattley, Bryan Cranston, Steve Ellis, Stephen King, Mick Garris, Jeremy Angel.

On this day in music history - Home, by Michele McLaughlin (2021):

The album Home,

by Michele McLaughlin,

was released on December 3, 2021.

On this day in music history - Heavenly Voices, by Fiona Joy Hawkins & Rebecca Daniel (2021):

The album Heavenly Voices,

by Fiona Joy Hawkins & Rebecca Daniel,

was released on November 12, 2021.

On this day in movie history - Beat the Devil (2021):

Beat the Devil

directed and written by David Hare,

based on the monologue play by David Hare,

was released in the United Kingdom on November 11, 2021.
Music by George Fenton.

Cast:

Ralph Fiennes.

On this day in music history – Pinky's Blues, by Sue Foley (2021):

The album Pinky's Blues,

by Sue Foley,

was released on October 22, 2021.

On this day in movie history - Film: The Living Record of Our Memory (2021):

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

a documentary directed and written by Inés Toharia Terán,

was released at the São Paulo International Film Festival in Brazil on October 21, 2021.
Narrated by Joseph Bohbot.
Music by Robert Marcel Lepage.

Cast:

Ann Adachi-Tasch, Laure Adler, Benjamin Chowkwan Ado, Janice Allen, Tina Anckarman, Peter Bagrov, Peter Becker, Steve Bloom, Margaret Bodde, Joseph Bohbot, Frédéric Bonnaud, Serge Bromberg, Kevin Brownlow, Jared Case, Luciano Castillo, Cecilia Cenciarelli, Te-Ling Chen, Bede Cheng, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Costa-Gavras, Grover Crisp, Rachel del Gaudio, Paula Felix Didier, Bryony Dixon, Dennis Doros, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Ray Edmondson, Lotte Eisner, Awad Eldaw, Dino Everett, Simon Fisher-Turner, Giovanna Fossati, David Francis, Mercedes de la Fuente, Lars Gaustad, Julia Gouin, Todd Gustavson, Sam Gustman, Patricio Guzmán, Mariano Gómez, Amy A. Heller, Jan-Christopher Horak, Anne Hubbell, Rob Hummel, Tessa Idlewine, Andrea Kalas, Ahmad Kiarostami, Anthony L'Abbate, Emmanuel Lefrant, Emily Leproust, Josef Lindner, Ken Loach, Patrick Loughney, Frédéric Maire, Ben Mankiewicz, Laurent Mannoni, Juan Mariné, Mike Mashon, Bob Mastronardi, Brian Meacham, Jonas Mekas, Bill Morrison, Jan Müller, Lourdes Odriozola, Hisashi Okajima, Maung Okkar, Bono Olgado, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Michael Pogorzelski, John Polito, Chema Prado, Rick Prelinger, Daniel Pérez, Javier Rellán, Nicolas Rey, Esteve Riambau, Ramón Rubio, Celine Ruivo, Aboubakar Sanogo, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Deborah Stoiber, Jeffrey Stoiber, Rob Stone, Vittorio Storaro, Ed Stratmann, Dan Streible, Linda Tadic, Mark Toscano, Katie Trainor, Fernando Trueba, Iván Trujillo, Benjamin Tucker, Chalida Uabumrungjit, Patricia Ubeda, Ernst van Velzen, Wim Wenders, Geo. Willeman, Adrian Wood, Caroline Yeager, Ishumael Zinyengere.

On this day in music history - Desert Suite, by Greg Maroney & Sherry Finzer (2021):

The album Desert Suite,

by Greg Maroney & Sherry Finzer,

was released on October 15, 2021.

On this day in movie history - Warning (2021):

Warning

directed by Agata Alexander,

written by Agata Alexander, Rob Michaelson and Jason Kaye,

was released at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival in Spain on October 13, 2021.

Music by Gregory Tripi.

Cast:

Thomas Jane, Tomasz Kot, Toni Garrn, Rupert Everett, Przemyslaw Wyszynski, Alice Eve, James D'Arcy, Aleksandra Zagrodzka, Billy Howerdel, Kylie Bunbury, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Jakub Wypler, Annabelle Wallis, Alex Pettyfer, Annabel Mullion, Richard Pettyfer, Garance Marillier, Izabela Kuna, Izabela Perez, Sebastian Perdek, Karolina Adamczyk, Benedict Samuel, Blu Mantic, Olga Boladz, Alma Asuai, Charlotte Le Bon, Janina Pruszkowska, Piotr Polak, Stephen Mao, Cybill Lui Eppich.

On this day in music history: Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene, by Renée Fleming and Yannick Nézet-Séguin (2021):

The album Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene,

by Renée Fleming and Yannick Nézet-Séguin,

was released on October 8, 2021.

On this day in music history: Tempting Fate, by Carolyn Wonderland (2021):

The album Tempting Fate,

by Carolyn Wonderland,

was released on October 8, 2021.

On this day in music history - Sol Novo, by Olivia Belli (2021):

The album Sol Novo,

by Olivia Belli,

was released on October 1, 2021.

On this day in movie history - Old Henry (2021):

Old Henry

directed and written by Potsy Ponciroli,

was released in the United States on October 1, 2021.
Music by Jordan Lehning.

Cast:

Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze, Gavin Lewis, Trace Adkins, Stephen Dorff, Richard Speight Jr., Max Arciniega, Brad Carter, Kent Shelton.

On this day in music history - Pieces of Forever, by Laura Sullivan (2021):

The album Pieces of Forever,

by Laura Sullivan,

was released on September 24, 2021.

On this day in movie history - The Guilty (2021):

The Guilty

directed by Antoine Fuqua,

written by Nic Pizzolatto,

was released in the United States on September 24, 2021.
Based on The Guilty (2018), directed by Gustav Möller.
Music by Marcelo Zarvos.

Cast:

Jake Gyllenhaal, Riley Keough, Peter Sarsgaard, Christina Vidal, Eli Goree, Ethan Hawke, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Christiana Montoya, David Castañeda, Adrian Martinez, Oscar Balderrama, Becky Wu, Bret Eric Porter, Maurice Webster, Beau Knapp, Edi Patterson, Paul Dano, Gillian Zinser, Terence J. Rotolo, Bill Burr, Dillon Lane, Marlene Forte, Jaime FitzSimons, Aileen Burdock, Jonathan Hunt, Brad Abrell, Yeni Alvarez, Rajia Baroudi, Joe Cappelletti, Keena Ferguson, Jackson Gutierrez, Amad Jackson, Terence Mathews, Nan McNamara, Gustavo Rex, Deena Rubinson, Elia Saldana, Lloyd Sherr, Stephen Stanton, Kirk Thornton, Debra Wilson, Serah Henesey.

On this day in movie history - The Humans (2021):

The Humans

directed and written by Stephen Karam,

based on the play by Stephen Karam,

was released in the United States on September 12, 2021.
Music by Nico Muhly.

Cast:

Jayne Houdyshell, Richard Jenkins, Amy Schumer, Beanie Feldstein, Steven Yeun, June Squibb.