Tom Waits

Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American
singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice,
described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat
of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken
outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his ... read more

Mark Ruffalo - Johansson & Mark Ruffalo To Lead Movie Musical Cast

The Avengers stars Mark Ruffalo and Scarlett Johansson are to reteam for a new movie musical The actress who has already achieved critical success for her singing voice -...
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One From the Heart

(Francis Ford Coppola, 1982, Studio Canal, 12)The most ambitious film-maker of the 1970s, Francis Ford Coppola had a string of critical and box-office successes before hi...
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Apps Rush: Pocket League Story, If I Ran The Zoo, Oasis, Tom Waits, ZOMB1ES (on teh ph0ne) and more

What's new on the app stores on Thursday 5 January 2012A selection of 13 apps for you today:Pocket League StoryKairosoft's Pocket League Story has been out on Android for...
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Old music: Little Anthony and the Imperials - Goin' Out of My Head

Scores of artists have covered this song, but none can match the vulnerability and grandeur of the 1964 originalI first heard of Little Anthony and the Imperials via Tom ...
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Best Songs of 2011 List

60. My Morning Jacket, 'Holdin on to Black Metal'59. Naked and Famous, 'Punching in a Dream'58. Sleeper Agent, 'That's My Baby'57. The Civil Wars, 'Barton Hollow'56. ...
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This week's new live music

Aloe Blacc, On tourRappers who choose to act are brave; those who choose to sing possibly more so. For Aloe Blacc (real name: Egbert Dawkins III), singing has been the ri...
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Life in a Blender: Homewrecker Spoon

photo: Stephanie KeithBrooklyn band Life in a Blender have been around for twenty-five years, creating their unique blend of vaudeville, rock and Americana. Their seven...
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Why we're watching… King Charles

The "glam folk" musician, 26, is the first-ever Brit to win Nashville's International Songwriting CompetitionOoh… get him in his fancy suit. Not to mention the 'tac...
Posted 27 November 2011 12.08am — Comment on this

Origami Vinyl :: Top 10 Records

Origami Vinyl :: Top 10 Records (10/28 – 11/4)1. Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation2. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming3. Bjork – Biophi...
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Sleeve Notes: Meet David Lynch

The director-turned-musician turns editor for this week's Film & MusicFive things we learnt from David Lynch's stint as editorSometimes a fish will tell you how it wants ...
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Marc Ribot Trio – review

Bishopsgate Centre, LondonBoth power trio and a supergroup that spans three generations, expectations were high for this soldout concert. Drummer Chad Taylor was a lynchp...
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Tom Waits evokes a range of emotions on 'Bad As Me'

I was laughing out loud and then choking back tears while first absorbing the kaleidoscopic moods of the superb new Tom Waits album “Bad As Me” ( * * * * out ...
Posted 29 October 2011 6.30pm — Comment on this

Mike Gibbs/Norma Winstone: Here's a Song for You – review

(Fuzzy Moon) The great British jazz singer Norma Winstone has just passed her 70th. Having spent much of her career working with composers who've used her range and preci...
Posted 27 October 2011 9.45pm — Comment on this

Tom Waits – “Tell Me”

The internet is awash in riches borne of Waits’s latest — we’ve been partying around the new LP Bad As Me, and now two of the album’s three bonus ...
Posted 27 October 2011 4.09pm — Comment on this

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Top songs

The 5 most played Tom Waits songs in the past year.

  • Better Off Without A Wife  2 plays
  • Back In The Crowd  2 plays
  • Bad As Me  2 plays
  • Drunk On The Moon  2 plays
  • Chocolate Jesus  1 plays

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Absolute Radio stations playing songs by Tom Waits over the past year.

  1. Absolute Radio 12 plays

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