Every year, the Lawrence Public Library chooses a book for Read Across Lawrence, a month-long celebration of that title and its themes. This year, the library chose Andy Weir’s The Martian, a smart and funny novel which was turned into a blockbuster, Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning film starring Matt Damon. For part of this, the Electronic Composition class at the University of Kansas will re-score and redub The Evil Brain from Outer Space, a Japanese grade-z flick cobbled together from portions of the Starman short film series. We spoke with the class's instructor, Kip Haaheim, Associate Professor of Music Theory & Music Composition, about the process of scoring and composition.

On this episode, we speak with Robert Lee of Banana Stand Records about the label’s vinyl release of the soundtrack to the 1993 comedy horror film, Cannibal! The Musical. This is a film which could’ve easily been another straight-to-video distributed release from Troma, but for the fact that the director, songwriter, and star Trey Parker and co-star Matt Stone would go on to fame as the creators of the smash Comedy Central animated series, South Park.

On this episode, we speak with Eddie Roeser of the band Urge Overkill about the band's cover of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon." Their cover of the 1967 single was originally recorded for the band’s 1993 Stull EP, and the video for the song released in conjunction with the film helped the soundtrack reach all the way up to 21 on the Billboard charts, as well as reaching double-platinum sales. We spoke with Roeser around the re-release of the Stull EP on Touch and Go Records last year.

We speak with White Hills' Dave W. about the band's appearance in Jim Jarmusch's 2013 film, Only Lovers Left Alive.

The weather is getting chilly, verging on cold, the holidays are lending a sense of impending doom, and in general, stress is ramping up as the year draws to a close. What better way to relax than to mix a drink and kick back with a few louche tunes?

Jesse Dayon's best known for the music he created for the bands which appeared in two of director Rob Zombie's films: Banjo & Sullivan in The Devil's Rejects, and Captain Clegg & The Nightcreatures in Halloween II. We spoke with him by phone from Atlanta, where he and his band were taking a break from practice for their current tour.

Halloween's more a state of mind than a season at From & Inspired By. Listen to some spooky lullabies.

Joe Sib, Wax frontman and founder of influential indie label SideOne Dummy, was cool enough to speak with us by phone about how Wax came to have the titular song on the Mallrats soundtrack, as well as the band's experiences with Bio-Dome and the music industry as a whole.

New music from Zombi, Sospetto, Nightcrawler, and Kreng, and a couple classics, as well.

In between regular episodes, we bring you themed mixes. This installment goes from A Nightmare on Elm Street to Rocktober Blood, and from Alice Cooper to Thor.