Seven-time Grammy-winning musician and composer Jon Batiste is putting his mark on Americana music with his new album, Big Money, which just came out on Friday. The record features several notable ...

Enjoy this soulful take on Doc Pomus' "Lonely Avenue"—a song immortalized by Ray Charles, the patron saint of Jon Batiste's musical world. To make this single an even more compelling preview of his ...

When David Byrne wrote his first and most successful hit song for the Talking Heads, he had one question in mind: what would it sound like if Alice Cooper and Randy Newman wrote a song together? An ...

Everybody’s Live, John Mulaney’s gloriously unhinged live Netflix talk show, might’ve had its most gloriously unhinged installment last night. The episode was all about men’s heights, and they’ve been ...

Randy Newman returned to late-night television with a performance of his 1972 song “Political Science” on Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney. The legendary singer-songwriter also played a rendition of ...

Randy Newman is an amazing singer-songwriter known for his distinctive voice and satirical lyrics. He gained fame with songs like Short People and I Love L.A. and became widely recognized for his film ...

The last three and a half weeks have convinced Griffin Goldsmith that he might, as he puts it, be “living in a simulation.” On Jan. 8, the drummer of the rootsy Los Angeles rock band Dawes lost his ...

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 ...

In 1974, Randy Newman opened his album “Good Old Boys” with “Rednecks,” a song about American racism so honest and shocking — not least because Newman brandishes the N-word in the voice of his ...

Gather round, youngsters, and I’ll tell you of a long-gone age in which the species known as auteur singer-songwriter was nurtured – indulged even – and encouraged to ply its art for art’s sake, free ...

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 ...

Here’s an uncomfortable truth: Most musicians on the left write songs that lack a decent sense of humor about serious matters, whether past or present. Earnest idealists abound: Think of Woody Guthrie ...