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 ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. 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 ...

His movie songs are filled with memorable melodies; his own albums with unsavory characters. One of the most astute cultural observers is the subject of a new book. By Bob Mehr Around the summer of ...

On the title track to Randy Newman’s first studio album in nine years, the man once hailed as the “bard of barbs” details a near-death experience that left him lying prostrate on the pavement. So here ...

As part of our Death Cab for Cutie takeover, we got on the phone with Ben Gibbard to find out more about their new album Codes & Keys... To say the past few years have been transformative for Death ...

Randy Newman is an all-time great film composerHe's best known for Disney movies like Toy StorySee Randy Newman's career ...

Tom Lehrer, the musical satirist whose topical songs saw him influence acts like Weird Al and Randy Newman, passed away on Saturday. He was 97. Mathematician and satirist Tom Lehrer, whose musical ...