Waits’ gritty Rain Dogs depicted a dark vision of New York’s underbelly, and was shaped by its ‘junkyard orchestra’ of ...

When Tom Waits came onto the music scene in the early 1970s, he was a golden-voiced, handsome piano player/crooner who wrote poetic songs that mixed lyrics and style like a bartender mixes spirits and ...

Martha' singer Tom Waits is an icon who straddles the worlds of folk, jazz, and a plethora of others. But there is one solo ...

Back when Tom Waits released Real Gone, I used the concept of the essential nature of a pair of bluejeans to illustrate how that record could be used to get at what Waits' music is all about—an ...

The post Tom Waits to Co-Host BBC Radio Special with Iggy Pop appeared first on Consequence. Tom Waits is set to reunite with Iggy Pop next month when they co-host a two-hour special on BBC Radio 6 ...

Imagine Shakespeare words mixed with Tom Waits music and Penn & Teller magic. That’s the dazzling conceit of “The Tempest” at Round House Theatre in Bethesda. “This is Shakespeare’s most magical show, ...

Tom Waits and RuPaul. Joan Baez and Mojo Nixon. Cartoonist Robert Crumb and Grammy Award-winning banjo virtuoso Alison Brown. New Age pianist George Winston and 2012 “American Idol” finalist Jessica ...

Waits released “Day After Tomorrow” on his 2004 album Real Gone. The track is one of Waits’ more explicitly political numbers, speaking to the context surrounding 9/11 and the U.S. response. The track ...

Los Angeles writer Sam Wasson knows a thing or two about Hollywood. Over the years he has chronicled Tinseltown's iconic moments in articles and acclaimed books, including “The Big Goodbye,” and ...

“I’ve always admired Tom Waits’ music, but I wasn’t ready to take on a show like this until now,” Skuller said. “Maybe it’s just being older or living through more things in life, but the songs struck ...

The music of Tom Waits has inspired many for generations, and local vocalist Madeline McNeill will be looking to do him justice at the Hamilton Studio Listening Room this weekend. McNeill, with her ...

Just as Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams came under fire for allegedly stealing from Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up,” for their 2013, kitschy-corn chart-topper “Blurred Lines,” and SAm Smith is ...