In case you're just joining this column, I have been a Tom Waits enthusiast since a college friend turned me on to the double live "Nighthawks at the Diner" in 1975. There is a new unauthorized ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Author Barney Hoskyns didn’t get to talk to the notoriously private Tom ...

It's never a surprise when an artist feels he's been screwed by dirty accounting from managers and studios. But apparently preserving one's reputation as an honest manager still counts. By Eriq ...

Waits’ gritty Rain Dogs depicted a dark vision of New York’s underbelly, and was shaped by its ‘junkyard orchestra’ of ...

Legend has it that, during the mid-'70s, while living in a dilapidated room inside Los Angeles' seedy Tropicana Motel, Tom Waits entertained a journalist who, upon looking inside the musician's fridge ...

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 ...

Hermit Bob, the woods-dwelling recluse in director Jim Jarmusch’s celeb-studded new zombie film, The Dead Don’t Die, is like a character in a Tom Waits song. He lives on the fringes of civilization.

Robert Wilson, the pioneering avant-garde playwright and theater director who collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, Lady Gaga, and more, has died. Chris Green, the executor of Wilson’s estate and ...

Marking the 30th anniversary of Roy Orbison‘s 1987 comeback TV special, Sony’s Legacy Recordings will release a re-edited, remastered and expanded version of the program, titled Black and White Night ...