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 ...

A new Randy Newman song doesn’t come around every day. He’s notoriously slow in the studio, a master craftsman who has only released four studio albums in the past 36 years. But when Newman does ...

Litmus Music said Thursday that it has acquired Randy Newman’s share of his recorded music and publishing catalog. The deal includes rights to the scores of the composer-singer-songwriter’s ...

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 ...

A big part of the thrill for Steingraber is that “Randy Newman wrote songs primarily for Randy Newman to perform. Imagine being at the height of your songwriting powers and thinking to yourself, ‘Oh, ...

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Randy Newman is a songwriter who has never been afraid to write from the perspective of those who are hard to admire and even harder to trust. This kind of protagonist is the one doing the lovey-dovey ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Newman and the show's director talk about bringing the underseen 1995 musical back to life for a Northridge engagement that was 10 years in the making. This “Faust” is being done with narration to ...