John Williams, the famed composer behind Hedwig’s Theme, will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at this year’s Classic Brit Awards in October. Williams composed the soundtrack for the first two “Harry Potter” films, but is also well known for composing the soundtracks to “Star Wars,” “Schindler’s List,” “Jurassic Park” and “ET.” Dickon Stainer, …read more!

The soundtrack for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” composed by Alexandre Desplat, has been nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. Desplat is also nominated again in the same category for composing the score to “The King’s Speech.” Winners will be announced during a ceremony …read more!

This weekend the World Soundtrack Awards were held at Ghent International Film Festival and Alexandre Desplat, composer of the scores for “Deathly Hallows: Part 1” and “Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” was named composer of the year. The other winners at the festival can be found here.

Every year, Leaky produces an album of wizard rock Christmas music, the profits of which benefit charity. We’ve raised a ton of money for good causes using the very simple magic of rocking as hard as possible. Last year, we opened half the album to submissions and it made it one of our best ever. …read more!

Thanks to Warner Bros. we have a transcript of a new, lengthy interview with Alexandre Desplat where he discusses what went into making the soundtrack for “Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” what theme is his favorite, and how he utilized John Williams’s famous “Hedwig’s Theme.” We also have a video of Desplat conducting his orchestra here …read more!

Minute-long snippets from each of the 25 tracks from the official “Deathly Hallows: Part 2” soundtrack has been published online via GoBuz. Scroll down and click on “ecoutez les extraits” to launch the music player! The soundtrack is once again composed by Alexandre Desplat who also worked on “Part 1,” and has a scheduled release …read more!

An online catalog listing for Warner Bros. Watertower Music has revealed that the soundtrack for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” will be released on July 12, 2011. The tracklisting and cover art have not yet been announced. The score for “DH: Part 2” will be composed by Alexandre Desplat, who also worked …read more!

Have you gotten your Jingle Spells 4 yet? We are half sold out of physical copies of our popular holiday album – and shipments are going out this week so don’t wait! Also, we are offering a deal: since we have only about 250 copies of the amazing, two-disc Leaky Live CD from LeakyCon 2009 …read more!

It’s that time of year! Jingle Spells, The Leaky Cauldron’s annual holiday fundraising album of wizard rock, is here! This album is currently being printed and will begin shipments in a week. We are only making 1,000 of these albums – historically they have gone very quickly so do not wait to get yours. Welcome …read more!

Thirty second preview clips from the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” film soundtrack have made their way online care of Amazon.co.uk. Readers will recall, the track titles for the soundtrack were revealed by a Belgin site; this posting on Amazon confirms the track listing for the forthcoming Harry Potter film soundtrack. The …read more!