The Main Point

Randy Newman received an Oscar in the Best Original Song category for “We Belong Together,” the piano-rock song he penned for Pixar’s Toy Story 3 at the 83rd annual Academy Awards. It was Newman’s twentieth nomination for Best Original Song–and only his second win. “My percentages aren’t great,” he quipped in his acceptance speech. Of [...]

“I wish (my Mom) was alive to hear the news. She didn’t respond to rock and roll per se, but she would have loved to have a reason to get all dolled up… And the idea of having a Waldorf salad at the Waldorf Astoria, would for her have been the cat’s pajamas. Actually, my mom made [...]

After being teased by a taste of Hayes Carll singing “Take Me Away” in the recent movie Country Strong, fans can rejoice in a new, full-length, recording from one of the best musicians to come out of the Texas Gulf Coast. Carll extends a worthy Texas tradition: the weathered, hard-drinking, weary but clear-eyed troubadour with, [...]

Although he never actually played at the original Main Point (as his father did in 1971), Teddy Thompson did play just a few doors down at The Point back when it was run in Bryn Mawr by our good friends Richard Kardon & Jesse Lundy… Here’s what we think of Teddy’s latest: Modern British troubadour [...]