Tom Waits News

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Update: This Friday, October 10th, Jolie Holland will be interviewed live by host Chris Vestuto on KCSB's "Rocket Garden Holiday" . On Tuesday, October 14th, SOhO and KCSB present the musician Jolie Holland , ...

The Black Rider, The Casting of the Magic Bullets - the folk tale-inspired avant-garde play with music by Tom Waits, Robert Wilson and William S. Burroughs, seen in Europe, the U.S. and Canada - gets its ...

AS YOU can see in the interview opposite, the new Travis album will be just over half an hour long.

Along the way, she's emerged as an unlikely staple of radio stations that cater to grown-ups and NPR's World Cafe , while others got their first taste of her mesmerizing vocal presence when she covered Hanging ...

The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets By William S Burroughs, Tom Waits and Robert Wilson.

Singer-songwriter Tom Waits is featured in the film, as well as a young Ellen Barkin as the character of Laurette.

Tom Waits has been a remarkably consistent and imaginative songwriter during a rich and varied career.

On Half the Perfect World , southern-born chanteuse Madeleine Peyroux follows in the footsteps of the collaborative Got You On My Mind , creating a pleasant medley of jazz, blues, and pop.

The launch of MySpace Music ran into controversy on Thursday after the leading independent music trade body complained that its small music label members had been shut out and treated like second class ...

I know that I've complained before about the waste of CDs, but a killer deal is a killer deal.

B ubs is a crossover production, a play accompanied by songs, a concert yoked to a narrative, and that's not a bad thing: Crossovers attract new people to an art form that everyone seems to agree is in trouble ...

Little Death, a new musical performance conceived by and starring the Nightlife, MAC and Bistro Award winner Karen Kohler world premieres at the Zipper Factory on October 8. Directed by John- Richard Thompson ...

If you saw this: "An animated movie about a rat that wants to be a gourmet chef," would you think, "Blockbuster! We'll get Peter O'Toole?'" I don't know about you, but I liked "Ratatouille." A lot! It made over ...

Trip-hop legend Tricky said he wanted to make his first record in five years something special.

When it comes to honoring a musician like Tom Waits, it doesn't get much bigger than putting together a cover album and bringing in a composer and 18 musicians.

To be honest with you we don't quite know how to describe this program except to say that there was once a time when FM radio sounded a lot like this: eclectic, vibrant and not limited to any one format or ...

Compared to some major markets, North Texas has a slight advantage when it comes to its music scene.

A four-day music extravaganza will begin on Friday in the centre of Woodstock. Woodstock Live will include bands performing a range of music types from a vantage point in the centre of town.

As the lights went down in the theater the low murmur built to a thunderous ovation as the odd-looking man in the crumpled suit and bowler hat took to the stage.