Kevin Kiner Reflects On 'The Clone Wars' Legacy Ahead Of The New Season

By: Dominic Jones

With the long awaited return of Star Wars: The Clone Wars finally here, fans everywhere are getting excited for the final twelve episodes.  The new season, which will be released weekly on Disney+, marks a reunion of sorts for fans who loved the series during its initial six season run getting to go back to the characters and stories that were left unfinished when the show unexpectedly went off the air in 2013.

But it’s not just fans who are relishing the return to this exciting era of Star Wars, production on the seventh season brought back many of the original crew to finish the story they began. Among them is composer Kevin Kiner, who scored all 121 episodes of the original run as well as the theatrical film that kicked off the series in August 2008.

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On this episode, Dominic, Ben, and Chris get you set for the new season of The Clone Wars and discuss the latest new about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker home media release.  First, Dominic interviews The Clone Wars and Rebels composer Kevin Kiner about his work on the series, including the early days of working with George Lucas, Ahsoka's theme, and what fans can listen for in season seven.  Then the guys discuss recent comments from Dave Filoni about Ahsoka's vocal cameo in The Rise of Skywalker and what that means for the future of the character.  Plus, Freddie Prinze Jr has high praise for Dave Filoni, our favourite characters, StarWars.com confuses us with their announcement of the saga being released in 4K UHD, and Ben shocks Chris and Dominic with his Star Wars impressions.  All this and much more!

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Video: Star Wars The Clone Wars 10th Anniversary Panel San Diego Comic Con #CloneWarsSaved

By: Dominic Jones

Earlier today the Emmy award winning animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars celebrated two major milestones during a panel a San Diego Comic Con.  The panel celebrated both the tenth anniversary of the series' debut and its surprise return.  Our friend Steele Saunders of the Steele Wars Podcast has released the full video of the panel, which you can watch for yourself below (you can also read a blow-by-blow account of the panel here),

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Tweets From 'The Clone Wars' 10th Anniversary Panel at SDCC #CloneWarsSaved

By: Dominic Jones

Today at San Diego Comic Con, the Emmy award winning animated series celebrated two historic milestones, the tenth anniversary of its debut and the announcement of its upcoming return.  I was in attendance at the panel and live tweeted all the action, including the look backs at the series origins and the surprising  announcement of the series return next year on the Disney Direct to Consumer streaming service.  I've compiled my tweets from the panel below so you can relive all the excitement and insight from this afternoon's festivities.

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'Star Wars Rebels' Nominated for Three Emmy Awards

By: Dominic Jones

Congratulations are in order for the crew of Star Wars Rebels, the animated series which wrapped up its four season run on Disney XD earlier this year.  The series was nominated for three Emmy Awards for its final season, in the categories of Outstanding Children's Program, Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for the episode "Family Reunion and Farewell", and Outstanding Sound Editing (Comedy or Drama half-hour and animation) for the episode "A World Between Worlds".

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'The Clone Wars' Tenth Anniversary SDCC Panel Guests Revealed

By: Dominic Jones

Lucasfilm is celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Emmy-award winning animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars at San Diego Comic Con this year.  On Thursday July 19th at 11:45am in Room 6BCF an hour-long panel featuring members of the cast and crew will look back on the history of the series will take place.  The panel will be hosted by Nerdist's Amy Ratcliffe, and will feature supervising director Dave Filoni, producer Athena Portillo, composer Kevin Kiner, and stars Ashley Eckstein (Ahsoka Tano) and Matt Lanter (Anakin Skywalker).  The panel was announced two weeks ago, and the panelists were revealed on this week's episode of The Star Wars Show, which you can watch below,

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Kevin Kiner Releases New 'Star Wars Rebels' Music (Updated!)

By: Dominic Jones

Kevin Kiner has been composing music for Star Wars animation for almost ten years now (his first project being The Clone Wars movie in 2008), with his work cover all six seasons of The Clone Wars and all four seasons of Star Wars Rebels.  With Rebels coming to a close in March, Kiner posted twenty seven new tracks from the series to his website.  The tracks are free to listen to for everyone.

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'Star Wars Rebels' Nominated for Three Annie Awards

By: Dominic Jones

Star Wars Rebels, the hit animated series currently airing on Disney XD, has received some prestigious award nominations in the animation community.  The International Animation Society announced the nominations for the 44th annual Annie Awards this week and Star Wars Rebels has been nominated for three awards.  The categories Rebels has been nominated in are Lars Mikkelsen (Grand Admiral Thrawn) for Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production in the episode "Hera's Heroes", Joe E. Elwood and Alex McDonnell for Outstanding Achievement, Editorial in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production in the episode "Twilight of the Apprentice", and Kevin Kiner for Outstanding Achievement, Music in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production in the episode "Twilight of the Apprentice".

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'Star Wars: Rebels' Season One Soundtrack Released

By Ciaran Duggan,

Kevin Kiner has released the original soundtrack for the first season of Star Wars: Rebels. The album is composed of 28 soundtracks and the length of each soundtrack ranges from 35 seconds to three and a quarter minutes.The album is available to download today on digital platforms, including i-Tunes and Spotify.  Take a look at the track list down below:

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'Star Wars Rebels' Albums Coming This September

By Ciaran Duggan,

This September, two official albums will be released for the first two seasons of the hit TV animated series; Star Wars Rebels. 

The news was broadcast on the latest installment of the 'Star Wars Show', as Andi Gutierrez and Peter Townley informed fans about the album release. The two albums will be released on different dates and contain a different number of songs on each official album. The 'Season 1' album will feature 28 soundtracks, whilst there will be five more soundtracks on the 'Season 2' album (33 in total). 

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Report: 'Star Wars Rebels' Seasons 1 & 2 Soundtrack On The Way

By: Benjamin Hart

While there's a lot to enjoy visually in Star Wars Rebels, there's also plenty to hear. Composer Kevin Kiner has done a stellar job with the music of Rebels, paying homage to the classic themes of John Williams while introducing brand new scores for the show. Now it appears that the Rebels tunes will soon be available to enjoy on their own in soundtrack form. Wondercon is happening now in Los Angeles and Amy Ratcliffe tweeted on Friday that Kiner confirmed the soundtrack is coming on a panel:

Ooh. Kevin Kiner's on a panel at WonderCon and said a season one and two soundtrack for #StarWarsRebels is coming soon.

— Amy Ratcliffe (@amy_geek) March 25, 2016

Kevin Kiner also composed the music for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and for years fans lobbied for a soundtrack to be released, and it ultimately came after the series ended. It's awesome to see Lucasfilm is now ahead of the game with this soundtrack. Of course, we will provide updates on this story in the future as release dates and such are revealed. In the meantime, if you would like to enjoy to some Rebels music right now, Kiner previously made a collection of tracks available to listen on his website.

Source: Amy Ratcliffe(Twitter)
Via: Star Wars Rebels Transmission(Facebook)

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Kevin Kiner Releases 'Star Wars Rebels' Soundtrack Online

By: Benjamin Hart

When it comes to iconic musical scores, no one can beat the legendary John Williams who has scored every live action Star Wars film thus far, along with many other blockbusters. But one composer who's proven his ability to emulate Williams' work in the animated portion of the Star Wars Saga is none other than Kevin Kiner. Kiner scored the music for six-plus seasons of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has now moved on to the newest Star Wars animated series, Star Wars Rebels. For years fans clamored for The Clone Wars soundtrack to be released in full, and last year it was. Now Kevin Kiner has released his music for Rebels on his site.  From "22 Pickup" from Spark Of Rebellion to "Alliance" from Fire Across The Galaxy, it's a great collection of track, twenty one in total.

Head over to Kevin Kiner's site now to star listening!

Via: Making Star Wars

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'The Clone Wars' Nominated for Seven Daytime Emmy Awards

By: Dominic Jones

Star Wars: The Clone Wars may be over but that doesn't mean it's done winning awards.  The sixth season of the Emmy award winning animated series, which was released on Netflix last year, has once again been nominated for an amazing seven Daytime Emmy Awards! 

The Clone Wars is nominated in the following categories:

Outstanding Special Class Animated Program

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Executive Producer: George Lucas
Supervising Director: Dave Filoni
Producer: Cary Silver
Line Producer: Athena Portillo

Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Mark Hamill as Darth Bane

Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Writer: Christian Taylor

Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Supervising Director: Dave Filoni
Directors: Brian Kalin O’Connell, Danny Keller, Steward Lee

Outstanding Sound Mixing – Animation

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Production Mixer: Cameron Davis
Re-Recording Mixer: David Acord
Foley Mixer: Frank Rinella
Scoring Mixer: Mark Evans

Outstanding Sound Editing – Animation

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Supervising Sound Editor: Matthew Wood
Sound Designer: David Acord
Music Editor: Dean Menta
Sound Editors: Jeremy Bowker, Steve Slanec
Foley Editors: Andrea Gard, Kevin Sellers
Foley Artists: Dennie Thorpe, Jana Vance

Outstanding Music Direction and Composition

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Composer: Kevin Kiner

The Clone Wars has won four Emmy awards in the past, picking up the "Outstanding Special Class Animation" award in both 2013 and 2014, as well as an "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation" award for animator Chris Voy in 2014 and a "Performer in an Animated Program" award for David Tennant (Professor Huyang in Season 5's "Young Jedi Arc") in 2013.

It's very exciting to see that even though the show is gone from our screens it is still getting the recognition it deserves.  We wish all those who were nominated the best of luck at the ceremony, which takes place April 26th at 8:00pm EST on the Pop Network.

Via: Coffee With Kenobi
 

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'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' Seasons 1-6 Soundtrack Available for Pre-Order (Updated!)

 

By: Dominic Jones

UPDATE: The release has finally been confirmed via official channels!  Walt Disney Records posted the link to the pre-order today on Facebook saying, "Star Wars episode VII is all we can think about so we’re glad to finally have Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV soundtrack available to get us through in the mean time!"

Post by Walt Disney Records.

 
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It's been a long time coming but it seems that Lucasfilm is finally releasing a soundtrack for the Emmy award winning animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.  The music for the series was composed by Kevin Kiner, who has since moved on to working on Star Wars Rebels.  The soundtrack album is available for pre-order on iTunes and Amazon Prime Music now and is slated for a November 10th release.

The track list seems to contains music from all the seasons, though there does seem to be a bit of an emphasis on the later seasons (not that I'm complaining those are some of my favorite episodes and some of my favorite music!)  And, for those of you wondering, yes these are all different tracks from what Kiner released (for free) on his website earlier in the year.  No word yet on that vinyl release, though...

Source: YakFace

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Report: 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' Season One Soundtrack Coming Soon...to Vinyl?

By: Dominic Jones

Fans of Star Wars: The Clone Wars have been hopping for a soundtrack release of some of the phenomenal music composer Kevin Kiner created for the series.  Now it seems we may have gotten our wish, in a way that I don't think anyone was expecting.  Our friends over at Jedi News have spotted a new posting on BestBuy.com for "Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season One-Original Soundtrack-VINYL".  That's right, it seems, that Lucasfilm will be releasing the soundtrack for the first season on vinyl.  No word on if this will be seeing a release in a medium from the 21st Century, like CD or digital or if the soundtrack for other seasons will be released.

I must say, assuming this is true, this is an unexpected move for Disney/Lucasfilm.  We had heard that a soundtrack for the series would be coming, but I didn't see the vinyl thing coming.  Although, to be fair, vinyl is making a comeback in certain (more hipster-esque) circles.  I would love to see complete soundtracks for each of the seasons released in any format.  Kiner did release over 50 tracks from the series on his website (for free) earlier this year.  No word on if there would be any difference between what was released on Kiner's website and a physical soundtrack release.

Source: Jedi News

 

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Kevin Kiner Performs 'Rebels' Theme With Live Orchestra

By: Benjamin Hart

Aside from composing music for many TV series like CSI: Miami and Hell On Wheels, Kevin Kiner is well know to Star Wars fans as the man behind the music of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. The award winning composer appeared at Playfest in Málaga, Spain and conducted an orchestra to play the main theme for Rebels for the live audience. A YouTuber named Kite Kunisaki shared a video of the performance, which you can watch below:



I have to say, the more I hear this tune, the more I like it. (So much so that it's even my Phone ringtone.) Hearing it performed live is a real treat. Tune into Disney Channel on Friday, October 3rd to hear the theme and watch the series when it premieres it's first hour long episode!

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Kevin Kiner: Clone Wars Seasons 1-6 CD Soundtrack Coming

By Chris Seekell

Today Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels composer Kevin Kiner sat down for an interview with the hosts of the Everything Geek Podcast. In the interview he talked about his time on Clone Wars and what we can expect to hear in the Rebels soundtrack. He also revealed that Lucasfilm is working on releasing a full CD soundtrack for the entire Clone Wars series.

"We are just compiling a CD of Clone Wars Seasons 1-6."

Kevin went on to describe the differences between his compositions for Clone Wars and Rebels.

"[Rebels] is a cool reboot. I'm sure if you have seen any interviews with Dave Filoni or even myself, Dave's really talking about going back to A New Hope, going back to the adventure, serialized feel that the first film had. The musical sensibility is a lot closer to what John [Williams] did for that film specifically, A New Hope, than what we were doing on Clone Wars."

You can listen to the full interview here.

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Opinion: Why Kevin Kiner is the Perfect Choice to Score 'Star Wars Rebels'

By: Ciaran Duggan

 

This past weekend at Wondercon (in Anaheim, California), executive producer Dave Filoni officially announced Kevin Kiner as the composer and scorer of the new Star WarsTV show: Star Wars Rebels.  Furthermore, the Kiner’s Rebels theme tune was played to the Wondercon audience at the “Behind the Scenes of Star Wars Rebels” panel.  The score was a vivid resemblance to John Williams’ force theme and the show’s primary themes will assimilate antecedent William’s scores from Star Wars: A New Hope, delineating an old trilogy ubiquitous to the television show.

The announcement is certainly a welcome one. Kevin Kiner deserves the opportunity to score another Star Wars television show following his vivid achievements in prior television shows, such as CSI Miami, Bond: Goldeneye 007, but most notably his composition on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, in which he produced wonderful and fantastic themes on the Star Wars series.  The brilliant scores included a proliferation of orchestral instruments (namely Anakin wants her Alive, Battle of Christophsis and Slick Captured), along with electronic and rock instrumentals such as Ashoka is Captured and Coruscant Runner.  These soundtracks, undoubtedly, consist of Kiner’s own magical audio touch, yet there are also vivid echoes to John William’s foregoing scores which should enable fans to perpetuate confidence in Kevin Kiner’s role on Rebels, fundamentally illustrated already in the score for the Star Wars: Rebels main theme.

In short summary, the declaration from the Rebels team about Kiner’s appointment will be met with praise from many quarters across Star Wars fandom.  The agglomerate team is certainly shaping up to emulate a resembling cast to the popular Clone Wars series and therefore this announcement amalgamated with the new space battle clip released from Wondercon (stunningly animated it must be said) will certainly enhanced expectations and interest for the show. Rebels is certainly shaping up to be a fantastic series. 

 

This article is an opinion piece and represents the views of the writer, and not the entire Star Wars Underworld organization 

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Kevin Kiner To Score 'Star Wars Rebels'

By: Benjamin Hart

This just in from WonderCon in Anaheim, California: Kevin Kiner, who composed music for all six seasons of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, has been officially confirmed to be scoring Star Wars Rebels! Kiner himself appeared at the "Behind the scenes of Star Wars Rebels" panel saying that he is "privileged to be part of the greatest myth of the 20th & 21st centuries." Also at the panel, Kiner's main theme for Rebels was played, which was described by attendees as including pieces of the Rebels theme from Return Of The Jedi and The Force theme mixed together. Kevin Kiner commented that The Force Theme was John Williams' "home run." The musical theme for the series overall is said to invoke an A New Hope feel.

Check out the video announcing Kiner's return below,



Stay tuned for more news and details about Star Wars Rebels coming out of Wondercon today!

Source: Twitter/Rebels Report

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The Clone Wars Series Soundtrack Released Online

By: Dominic Jones

Throughout the run of Star Wars: The Clone Wars fans one of the most requested pieces of merchandise by was a soundtrack.  And now it seems, as The Clone Wars reaches it's ending,  the fan community has gotten their wish.  Our friends over at MakingStarWars.net have discovered that you can listen to 57 tracks of composer Kevin Kiner's amazing music from across the five seasons online, for free, on  KevinKiner.com/Music. 

Check it out here

Hopefully this is a good omen for future news about The Clone Wars, specifically when and how we'll see the bonus content from the series (which are set to air in Germany on February 15th on SuperRTL).

Above: Kevin Kiner during the recording session for the music of the season 5 finale arc.

Source: MakingStarWars.net

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