For the last 55 years or so, you’ve had a friend in Randy Newman, if you have a thing for songs that offer eviscerating, uncompromising, even devastating dissections of the human condition and the ...

The musical score of a film can really make it or break it. It can be the difference between making the film a cult classic or a complete catastrophe. So, the role of the film composer is really quite ...

Randy Newman at home in Pacific Palisades in 2017. The musician and songwriter is the subject of a new biography by former Times pop music critic Robert Hilburn. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) In ...

(Reuters) - Litmus Music, a music venture backed by buyout firm Carlyle Group, has acquired the rights to singer-songwriter Randy Newman's song catalog, which includes his work for Disney's "Toy Story ...

Also, get reviews of the latest from Dan Wilson and others. — -- In this week’s reviews, Randy Newman returns with his twelfth proper studio album, former Semisonic leader Dan Wilson records ...

It seems that there’s a Randy Newman for all sorts of music listeners. Like acerbic/satirical/edgy/intelligent pop songs? He’s the guy who wrote tunes from the ...

"Let me guess, " says Randy Newman, having discovered that his local performance tonight coincides with the Louisiana gubernatorial primary. "It’s someone from one of two families: Morial or Landrieu.

We can all agree that music is a subjective enterprise, with personal taste determining what’s good and what’s not for each listener. As it turns out, that theory can also apply to an artist who is ...

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"Randy Newman is our great master of American song and storytelling."--Bruce Springsteen "At last, the biography that Randy Newman has long deserved. The emotional precision, the humor and sweep, the ...

Behind the movie soundtrack success, Randy Newman is an old school songsmith. Now, after over four decades at his craft, he looks at his catalog in a new series of albums that brings the songs back to ...

Since leaving his post as one of the nation’s most well-known rock critics, a job he held down at the Los Angeles Times from the late ’60s through 2005, Hilburn has written four books, including the ...