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Tom Waits Remembers Hal Willner: ‘More Than Kin and More Than Kind’

Tom Waits has penned a lengthy tribute to his friend Hal Willner, who died last week at the age of 64. No cause of death…
Daniel Kohn / April 15, 2020
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Tom Waits Covers Album to Feature Aimee Mann, Phoebe Bridgers, More

Dualtone Records has announced an album of Tom Waits covers by a collection of women including Aimee Mann, Phoebe Bridgers of the groups boygenius and…
Tosten Burks / August 22, 2019
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Tom Waits: Our 1985 Interview, Tom Waits for No Man

This article originally appeared in the November 1985 issue of SPIN. Tom Waits has a voice that could guide ships through dense fog.
Glenn O'Brien / July 13, 2019
Culture
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Jim Jarmusch’s Messy The Dead Don’t Die Is Doomed by Cheap Political Symbolism

At this point, stock zombies of the George Romero vintage are as much a part of our American heritage as apple pie and state-sanctioned genocide. Jim…
Will Gottsegen / June 18, 2019
Culture
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Check Out the Hilarious Trailer for Jim Jarmusch’s Zombie Movie The Dead Don’t Die

The trailer for the forthcoming star-studded Jim Jarmusch zombie movie dropped Monday morning, and it looks fun. The clip gives a glimpse of Adam Driver,…
Maggie Serota / April 1, 2019
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Jim Jarmusch’s New Zombie Film Stars Bill Murray, Iggy Pop, RZA, Tom Waits, More

Jim Jarmusch returns this summer with The Dead Don't Die, a film about zombies, Focus Features announced today. Bill Murray, no stranger to the form, stars alongside…
Tosten Burks / March 27, 2019
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Marc Ribot – “Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful)” ft. Tom Waits

Chameleonic and iconoclastic guitarist Marc Ribot is releasing a new album on Friday called Songs of Resistance 1948 – 2018. As the title implies, the LP is a…
Winston Cook-Wilson / September 12, 2018
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Did Tom Waits Really Steal Jack White’s Watch?

Earlier this week, Jack White performed at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco just days before his free concert at the Tesla factory…
Rob Arcand / August 19, 2018
Culture
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Tom Waits Cast in Coen Brothers Movie The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs

Tom Waits has been cast in Joel and Ethan Coen’s upcoming movie The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs. Variety reports that the project, which was first announced last year…
Peter Helman, Stereogum / July 25, 2018
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Tom Waits Announces New Reissues of His First 7 Albums

Tom Waits has announced new reissues of his first seven albums. Following ANTI-'s reissues of 20 years-worth of music late last year, the label has…
Rob Arcand / January 20, 2018
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The 30 Best Tom Waits Songs

Few musicians have captured the emotional complexity of being an American in the 20th and 21st centuries with as much elegance and nuance as Tom…
Adam Rothbarth / December 14, 2017
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Listen to a Player Piano Version of Tom Waits’ “Innocent When You Dream” From Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel Lobby

Tom Waits recorded an instrumental version of his song "Innocent When You Dream" for a player piano situated in the lobby of Banksy’s Walled Off…
Stereogum / October 31, 2017
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Every Tom Waits Album From the Past 20 Years Is Getting Reissued

Tom Waits and his essential cowriter and collaborator for decades, his wife Kathleen Brennan, are overseeing a set of remastered versions of all the records Waits has released…
Winston Cook-Wilson / October 24, 2017
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Watch Tom Waits Join Mavis Staples for a Rare Live Performance

Tom Waits hasn't released an album of original material in five years and, according to NME, he hasn't played a live set in two years. However,…
Brian Josephs / September 13, 2017
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Watch Four Grizzled Game of Thrones Actors Cover Tom Waits’ “I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You”

The four craggiest Game of Thrones actors circling up campfire-style for a gruff Tom Waits cover might seem too on-the-nose to be true, like a…
Winston Cook-Wilson / September 1, 2017
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