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 ...

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 ...

It may have been our last edition of our monthly Now Playing test track rundown, or perhaps the edition before, where I got all misty-eyed about Tom Waits’ signature ballad Martha. Wherever and ...

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 ...

Tom Waits will perform in Birmingham on July 3 at the Alabama Theatre. Dates for his "Glitter and Doom" tour were announced today by the artist and promoter AC Entertainment. Waits -- a Grammy-winning ...

2 Listen to the 2026 Grammy Nominees for Best Musical Theater Album Echoing their famous joint appearance in Jim Jarmusch's "Coffee and Cigarettes,” the two-hour program will see the pair pump the ...

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 ...

In 1999, scraggly-voiced junkyard wizard Tom Waits released Mule Variations, his first album in six years. The big punk label Epitaph started its offshoot imprint Anti- specifically to release Mule ...

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 ...

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 ...

Included in Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Song Writers of All Time and a 2011 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Tom Waits is one of the most innovative artists in popular music. His ...