While Tom Waits has always presented himself as something of a character, he couldn't have prepared himself for meeting with ...

Waits performed a pair of songs and recited poetry in an episode of The Human Factor, which tackled homelessness in the ...

On this edition of All Songs Considered we've got a bunch of new-year premieres for you, including a special collaboration between Tom Waits and Keith Richards. The two veteran musicians recorded a ...

On 30 September 1985, Tom Waits released 'Rain Dogs'. To celebrate his favourite album’s 40th anniversary, Waits obsessive David Mouriquand explains why it’s worth revisiting (or discovering). And ...

Tom Waits once said, “I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.” You get the sense that John Lydon would agree ...

Back when Tom Waits released Real Gone, I used the concept of the essential nature of a pair of bluejeans to illustrate how that record could be used to get at what Waits' music is all about—an ...

Imagine Shakespeare words mixed with Tom Waits music and Penn & Teller magic. That’s the dazzling conceit of “The Tempest” at Round House Theatre in Bethesda. “This is Shakespeare’s most magical show, ...

Beginning July 31, subscribers to Tom Waits' email list began receiving a series of cryptic messages. Each comprised only a photograph (Waits with eye patch and scimitar; Waits with floating ...

Bad As Me and the new 4 cd set of Chester Burnett, better known as Howlin’ Wolf (1910-1976). It’s called Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters. The two singers, though separated by a ...

Between 1993 and 1999, the defiantly individual Tom Waits seemingly disappeared from the recording industry. Rumors abounded that he was too busy with films or some strange hobby. The latter, it ...

Tom Waits and RuPaul. Joan Baez and Mojo Nixon. Cartoonist Robert Crumb and Grammy Award-winning banjo virtuoso Alison Brown. New Age pianist George Winston and 2012 “American Idol” finalist Jessica ...

They didn’t have to come from behind. Sure, they trailed at points, but not by much. Matthew Knight Arena was on its feet, but not for any... Over the course of the past 30 years, singer/songwriter ...