Tom Waits is perhaps the quintessential cult artist, despite recording for large labels alongside successful commercial acts for his entire career. Widely regarded as one of America’s finest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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) ...

Tom Waits banks on the unexpected. His own style, as varied as it is indefinable, changes with the weather. Each new change though, however drastic, is no less or more true to Waits’s body of work ...

Tom Waits promised last week that he'd "set the record straight" about his new album, and here's the newly straightened record: It's called Bad As Me, and it's out Oct. 25. The title track has been ...

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 ...