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 shooting Tuesday inside a South Carolina Walmart is believed to involve two groups of people in gangs exchanging gunfire, ...

The singer, songwriter, and composer Randy Newman had a fascination with the legend of Faust that approached obsession. Beginning around 1981, he worked for some 15 years on an original retelling ...

As a boy growing up in Beverly Hills, Calif., Randy Newman received an upright piano for his fifth birthday. It was also around this time that his life started to slide sideways. He suffered from ...

Newman has won seven Grammys, three Emmys and two Oscars over a career that began with 1968’s debut album, the self-titled Randy Newman.His string of hits include "Mama Told Me Not to Come ...

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 ...

Two Academy Awards, six Grammys, 200,000 (by his own, admittedly shaky, estimation) devoted fans, Randy Newman thoroughly deserves the title of musical legend. Combining biting wit with his own ...

A day after performing an all-star version of Randy Newman's 1983 pop classic "I Love L.A." to open Sunday's (Feb. 2) 67th annual Grammy Awards, Dawes announced that they are releasing their ...

With his distinctive voice, he has often been described as a whiny singer. But his unconventional humor and gently biting descriptions often bring a smile to one's face. Since he has always ...