Have you ever listened to Tom Waits and felt like you’ve been transported to some sort of stage play, some weird vaudeville act? Or maybe you’re just in some kind of fever dream that Waits has created ...

It’s the B-side to his recent collaboration with Massive Attack, “Boots on the Ground” ...

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Tom Waits‘ first new original music in 15 years is “Boots on the Ground,” a vividly gruesome indictment of wars both foreign and domestic that he recorded with Massive Attack (for their first new ...

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 ...

Today is an historic occasion: There's a new Tom Waits song in the world. "Boots On The Ground" is Waits' first new original release since 2011's Bad As Me, though he released a "Bella Ciao" cover ...

Rain Dogs is forty years old today. I won’t get into all of it, because there is simply too much to get into, but I am thinking most about what we encounter at the record’s 46-minute mark: a song ...