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, ...

Randy Newman went nine long years without releasing an album of new and original songs until he released his 12th studio album Dark Matter last week. The jazzy musician with one of the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As one of pop’s master satirist-humorists, it’s likely no surprise that for his first studio album in nine years, songwriter/composer Randy Newman has set his artistic crosshairs on Russian President ...

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 ...

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 50 ...