Combining experimental song structures, velvet black atmospheres, and a voice like a St. Bernard with a severe tobacco dependency, Tom Waits is arguably the best singer songwriter, ever. His work reels from bar to bar, plucking the weird and the wonderful from the smoke choked ether, blundering into pianos and glockenspiels, croaking sorry, tawdry stories to anyone who is willing to listen.

Releases

• Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards - album, out 21/11/2006 on Anti. (post review)
• Real Gone - album, out 04/10/2004 on Anti. 1 review (read/post)
• Blood Money - album, out 06/05/2002. (post review)
• Alice - album, out 06/05/2002. (post review)

Past events

• Tue 23 Nov at London Hammersmith Apollo. 1 review (read/post)

News

• 27/06/2008: Tom Waits given a key to El Paso
• 22/05/2008: Tom Waits announces European tour dates
• 06/05/2008: Tom Waits announces tour dates
• 26/02/2008: Pin ups: Bowie lauds 'mystical' Scarlett Johansson
• 21/02/2008: 'I first realised I was a sexual being listening to David Bowie': Scarlett talks up new record
• 02/08/2007: Scarlett Johansson's Blues: Actress ropes in TVOTR and Yeah Yeah Yeahs for Waits record
• 27/11/2006: Chart round-up: it's a DiScussion, too. Wow!
• 17/10/2006: Scarlett-hued Tom Waits recordings to be released?
• 12/09/2006: The Observer's suggested autumn listening: Beck, Joanna Newsom, Tom Waits...
• 18/08/2006: Tom Waits to release three-disc set

Features

• 06/07/2007: The Weekly DiScussion: An Open Letter To Muse
• 16/05/2007: Versus The Fans, the preview: The ATP Perspective...

Links

• Tom Waits - official site

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