Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tom Morello Covers Tom Waits With X Ambassadors' Sam Harris Tom Waits is perhaps the quintessential cult artist, despite recording ...

Tom Waits already made Uproxx‘s “Best Vinyl Releases Of March 2023” list, but the storied singer-songwriter wants more. On Wednesday, July 12, it was announced that five albums he released via Island ...

Heard through the wall of a neighboring apartment, you might confuse Tom Waits's music with Howlin' Wolf's. Then again, you could just as easily mistake it for a long-lost Harry Partch piece, an ...

I was eight years old when I experienced my first Tom Waits song. It was like nothing I’d ever heard before. Granted, at the age of eight, that wasn’t saying a lot, but the statement continues to ...

Tom Waits has announced plans to reissue a series of his Island Records albums from 1983 through 1993, capturing a decade-long chapter of the musician’s recording career. The release cycle begins on ...

“No, thanks” might not have been the exact words executives at Elektra/Asylum, Tom Waits’ original label, communicated to their “prestige” artist when declining to release Swordfishtrombones (1983) ...

The album is 19 songs long, and there’s not one that’s a throwaway. Let’s dig deep into Rain Dogs and check out the five finest songs. (Or at least our humble opinion of them). Waits hits on just ...

Album Preview Tom Waits: Glitter and Doom Live Glitter and Doom Live is a collection of the best of the best tracks from Tom Waits' sold out, highly-acclaimed Glitter and Doom tour of the US and ...

Called "a minor key masterpiece filled with songs of late-night loneliness" by All Music Guide, 'Closing Time' features the distinctly lyrical storytelling and blending of jazz, blues and folk styles ...

Some months back, I saw Tom Waits on Leno and he just blew me away. First off, I never knew that he was the crackpot scientist from "Mystery Men". Second, I never knew he was such a good musician. His ...

In 1999, scraggly-voiced junkyard wizard Tom Waits released Mule Variations, his first album in six years. The big punk label Epitaph started its offshoot imprint Anti- specifically to release Mule ...

Bad As Me and the new 4 cd set of Chester Burnett, better known as Howlin’ Wolf (1910-1976). It’s called Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters. The two singers, though separated by a ...