Tom Waits News

In the twilight of his career, Tom Jones, like Johnny Cash before him, is producing a series of sparse covers records that showcase his still-powerful vocals.

WITH trademark theatrical flair, Camille O'Sullivan strode onto the stage of the RWCMD's Dora Stoutzker Hall dressed head to toe in red, including her shoes.

These guys have won awards in Britain, Europe, Canada and who knows where else. They also haven't stopped touring and writing for three years and were even special guests on Paul Jones 25th Anniversary BBC show last year .

Animal Eyes sounds like the love child from an acid trip, mountaintop orgy that involves the Fleet Foxes and Animal Collective , who, after a night of vicious passion, created a baby that was then raised in rural Alaska by a pack of musical wolves, led by Aplha, Tom Waits .

In celebration of her new album, "Stronger for It," blues and soul singer Janiva Magness is coming back this Sunday to The Upstage, a club she readily raves about.

Full marks for nerve to Tom Jones for opening his second successive album of stripped-down gravitas rock with Leonard Cohen 's Tower of Song , transformed from hotel-bar funk into a finger-picked country blues .

On his album "Double Exposure" , out this week, singer-guitarist John Pizzarelli, at the risk of offending purists, mixes riffs, chords and harmonies from jazz and pop standards into single tracks.

Suggesting that he's more self-aware than the average DIY flavour-of-the-day, Willis Earl Beal has a theory as to why he's currently in high demand around the globe.

If you lost $47 in cash, bound up in a rubber band at the Fais Do Stage during the Texas Tornados' set at the New Orleans Jazz Fest today, Augie Myers has it.