Randy Newman is set to release his first album of new material in nine years. "Harps and Angels," produced by Mitchell Froom and Lenny Waronker, arrives via Nonesuch on Aug. 5. By Katie Hasty, ...

Despite composing winning film scores for children’s films – the “Toy Story” movie series, 2013’s “Monsters University” and 2017’s “Cars 3” – no one would confuse that nice Randy Newman with the mean ...

Today, NPR has the advance stream of Randy Newman's excellent 11th studio album Dark Matter. Some of the material has been available previously: his vaudevillian character sketch of the Russian ...

We didn’t always have a friend in Randy Newman … or, if we did, we knew better than to get too pally with any of his unreliable narrators. Those miscreants have been MIA, with film scoring having long ...

Randy Newman's new album includes a song cataloging American carnage titled, "It's a Jungle Out There," which he says he doesn't really believe. Quite the opposite, in fact. His life is good. Nearly ...

In the 1970s, Newman’s Brechtian provocations arrived on a biannual cycle, but today “real” Newman albums come along only about once a decade. Prior to this week’s Dark Matter, there was the ...

The four-LP box containing everything Newman recorded for his Songbook series is a self-made and ever-shifting canon from songwriting's most charming cynic. *The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 2, ...

Randy Newman was already a favorite among critics, fellow songwriters and music's elite when he released his third album in May 1972. After all, the singalong nostalgia of "American Pie" and "Saturday ...

LOS ANGELES — So, finally, at 73, Randy Newman has written a straightforward, autobiographical love song, right? "She Chose Me," a ballad on "Dark Matter," his first album in nine years, opens with ...

We didn’t always have a friend in Randy Newman … or, if we did, we knew better than to get too pally with any of his unreliable narrators. Those miscreants have been MIA, with film scoring having long ...