Tom Waits News

The St. Christopher Project performs at St. James Infirmary, 445 California Ave., on Dec.

Dennis Gilman 's outdone himself yet again in his latest video, this time focusing on the November neo-Nazi march to the state Capitol , and the links between the Nazis and the nativists.

Every storyteller needs an audience, but Waits is a master fabulist whose diabolic razzle dazzle looms particularly great and grand in front of a crowd, as this 17-track feast of live performances demonstrates.

Singer-pianist Norah Jones collaborates with a new producer and new group of musicians for the new sound of The Fall.

Arriving five years after his last release of new material, and two after the three-disc Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards box of outtakes and oddities, this live set culled from assorted 2008 gigs could be seen as a time marker.

Apologies to Facebook readers, but it is worthwhile to re-post a great film review of Stranger Than Paradise by an interesting director: For better or worse, Jim Jarmusch has developed a reputation as the cineaste of cool.

A Californian resident in Manchester, Hoop comes hotly tipped, helped by a CV that includes a spell as Tom Waits's childminder.

Time was you could separate people into three categories based on their relationship to Tom Waits: those who knew his music and loved it; those who knew his music and hated it; those who didn't know him at all.

Available November 23, Glitter and Doom is a two disc collection of the best of the best tracks from Tom Waits ' sold out, highly acclaimed Glitter and Doom tour of the U.S. and Europe in the summer of 2008.

Norah Jones switches from mellow to angst-ridden on her fourth album, with spectacular results, says Neil Spencer What can Norah Jones mean by that title? Is The Fall a reference to the season of mellow fruitfulness or does it imply something darker, a fall from grace? One might suspect the former.

Jason Ricci shatters blues stereotypes. He's openly gay and likes to skateboard.

' new album, "Balm in Gilead," feels like an attempt to answer questions from a Taoist text.

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The sultry jazz chanteuse has recruited the rock and hip-hop boffins to bring their blips and bloops to her gentle coo Norah Jones's The Fall gets the remix treatment ... but sadly not by Mark E Smith.

Bob Dylan still had a few tricks up his sleeve for his Halloween show at the Aragon Entertainment Center in Chicago last night .

Genre: Singer, songwriter and twotime Grammy Award-winner, Rickie Lee Jones has composed and performed folk, rock, jazz, soul, R&B, spoken word and pop.

The fate of yet another historic New York diner is uncertain: the Empire Diner, on Tenth Avenue and West 22nd Street, is up for lease.

Scott H. Biram is a self proclaimed dirty one-man band that throws together blues, hillbilly and country with some raucous punk and godless metal to create a gritty sound similar to Waylon Jennings and Tom Waits.

It's the last show of the year for us. We're in a good mood -- ready to rock and have a good time." Alone with an acoustic guitar, dressed in black from porkpie hat to leather jacket to jeans tucked into knee-high motorcycle boots, she looked a little, it must be said, like Tom Waits circa Closing Time.

Jack Kerouac 's writing has strong musical ties. Jazz musicians provided the beat for his words.