From Tom Waits’s 35mm fever dream to a queer book fair, dance theater and open studios, this week’s MN Shortlist rounds up ...

Often referred to as that gravelly-voiced musician who sounds like he’s been gargling razor blades with a whiskey chaser, Tom Waits is without a doubt one of the defining musicians of the late 20th ...

To celebrate 40 years of 'Rain Dogs', here are four must-know tracks from an Americana masterpiece by Tom Waits.

Protest songs take on a variety of forms. Songwriters can go the direct route and call out the issues that they want to tackle in their lyrics. The tricky part with this method is that the emotions of ...

Tom Waits has released his performance of his 1976 song “Tom Traubert’s Blues” for the Italian docuseries Il Fattore Umano (The Human Factor), which aired earlier this year. Waits participated in the ...

Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan have shared a tribute to their friend and frequent collaborator, Robert Wilson, the renowned theater director, playwright, and artist, who died late last month at the ...