If you're not familiar with the music of Randy Newman, you have hours of pleasurable listening in your future. He's the funniest, most melodic, politically incorrect... His mastery of satire and irony ...

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 ...

Newman's albums from this era -- "Sail Away" (1972), "Good Old Boys" (1974) and "Little Criminals" (1977) -- don"t merely reflect the times. They unravel the mythologies that hold those times together ...

It seems that there’s a Randy Newman for all sorts of music listeners. Like acerbic/satirical/edgy/intelligent pop songs? He’s the guy who wrote tunes from the ...

Since leaving his post as one of the nation’s most well-known rock critics, a job he held down at the Los Angeles Times from the late ’60s through 2005, Hilburn has written four books, including the ...