This Talking Heads hit was supposed to be a hybrid of Alice Cooper and Randy Newman, according to songwriter David Byrne.

A new musical set in New Orleans, conceived and written by Tony Award winner Jack Viertel with music supervision, ...

“‘Rednecks’ by Randy Newman remains streamable,” West wrote. “They’re literally keeping the n—-s down.” West’s song is a bleak cut even beyond the ragebait title.

In the studio, it was tweaked to a different arrangement, and so the singer was lost. But really, it was changed to be closer to Michael Nesmith’s original track. He said, “Well, that was how I wrote ...

Randy Newman is a songwriter who has never been afraid to write from the perspective of those who are hard to admire and even harder to trust. This kind of protagonist is the one doing the lovey ...

Creativity is a strange thing itself, and it’s no wonder that for talents as varied as Tom Waits and Randy Newman to Billie Eilish, Celeste and Olivia Rodrigo, strangeness has always tickled their ...

In 1999, Waits was asked by Barney Hoskyns if Randy Newman had been an influence on him at all. “Yeah,” he said. “Because he was always like a Brill Building guy. He was part of that whole tradition: ...

Long before Randy Newman, 81 today, won global acclaim for his unforgettable score on the original 1995 Toy Story movie, his unconventional, intellectual – and darkly comic – writing presented ...

Despite most folk stars using a handful of chords to get where they need to go, their back catalogue also shows an impressive range of musical theory. Newman’s history working with jazzy players has ...

Far more people have heard the 20-plus film scores Randy Newman has composed since the early ’80s than any of his singer-songwriter records. “It’s sort of a funny hand to be dealt,” he said.

Martin Phillipps of the New Zealand jangle-pop act the Chills, which influenced R.E.M., Pavement and more, has died at 61, the band announced Sunday on social media.