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

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 ...

Regarded by many as one of the finest songwriters in the American canon, and a distinctive urban storyteller beyond compare, Tom Waits has long been hailed for his chronicles of the dispossessed, and ...

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 ...

The legendary singer-songwriter, composer and actor has not signed with an agency for over 20 years. By Billboard Staff Tom Waits Performing - H 2014 For the first time in more than two decades, Tom ...

When Eddie Skuller takes the stage at My Father’s Place on Oct. 18, he will not be trying to mimic Tom Waits’ gravelly growl. Instead, the veteran New York singer-songwriter will deliver “Ballads of ...

Allison Moorer and producer Warren Zanes discuss making the tribute record Come On Up To the House, which also features Aimee Mann, Rosanne Cash... On A Tom Waits Covers Album, Women Transform A ...

In "Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters," editor Paul Maher Jr. has compiled more than 50 interviews from singer-songwriter Tom Waits to "illustrate his creative progression through the ...

Tom Waits did not write “Jersey Girl” for Bruce Springsteen to record. Let’s clear that up right up front. It’s just that once Springsteen did start playing the song live, it was hard to separate the ...

Because Waits doesn't have the requisite war-horse hits that people long to hear every single summer or the sort of rock-band overhead that makes touring obligatory, there's an eventfulness that comes ...

Grammy Award-winning American musician, composer, songwriter and actor Tom Waits will co-host a special radio show with Iggy Pop. Echoing their famous joint appearance in Jim Jarmusch's "Coffee and ...