Listen to Tom Waits Covering James Brown in 1987
Sounds awesome, right? It is, actually... read more
Found in: Music, NewsTom Waits Contributes Songs to Musical Rendition of Shakespeare's Richard III
Tom Waits may be known just as well for his thespian talents as for his wonderfully off-beat music. The latest of his myriad roles was a convincing turn as the devil in The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus this year, and word has it he’s working on a stage production with directors Robert Wilson and Martin McDonagh, the latter of which won an Academy Award for his In Bruges. September will find Waits earning even more stage cred, this time in the form of the songs he’s providing for a musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III, which will be staged by... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsHall of Champions: All-Star Musicians Team With Preservation Hall Jazz Band
The new album of surprising collaborations... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesFourth Tom Waits/Robert Wilson Project to Debut in Paris in 2011
When Tom Waits and stage director Robert Wilson get together, good things happen. Their previous collaborations, 1990’s The Black Rider with William S. Burroughs, the 1992 reworking of Alice in Wonderland and a 2000 version of Georg Buchner’s Woyzeck, spawned Waits’ albums The Black Rider, Alice, and Blood Money, respectively.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsThe 10 Best Film Portrayals of God & The Devil
Actors sometimes are born to play a role, and I'm not sure what it says about the following 10 men and women that their particular role is either of unending love or eternal torment. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayThe Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
While James Cameron recently spent $250 million for the technical wizardry to create a cinematic experience like we’ve never seen before, Terry Gilliam spent about a tenth of that amount on The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and created a world we’d never imagine. Cameron’s plot was compelling but conventional; Gilliam’s was compelling, anything but conventional and eventually frustrating.... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsTom Waits Under Consideration for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit
Peter Jackson recently let slip some interesting tidbits about the long-awaited film adaptation of The Hobbit... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsTom Waits, Louis Armstrong, Brandi Carlile, Many More Featured on Preservation Hall Jazz Band Comp
As Tom Waits first noted last month, he will be one of several notable folks featured on the latest project by New Orleans’ Preservation Jazz Hall Band.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsTom Waits: Glitter and Doom Live
Music’s cookie-monster contrarian gets his Peter Pan on “Now, when I was a boy my daddy sat me on his knee and he told me, he told me many things. And he said, ‘Son,’ he always called me son, he said, ‘There’s a lot of things in this world, son, you’re going to have absolutely no use for,’ and he was right.” -Tom Waits, “Lucky Day”... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsThe 20 Best Live Acts of the Decade (2000-2009)
On any given night, on any city in America, there's a band or a singer/songwriter transcending the usual concert experience... read more
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