Tom Waits News

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A year before Barney Hoskyns' Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits hit bookstores in May, "Tom Waits True Confessions" was published online by Waits' record label, Anti .

Ben Prestage Prestage racks up amps-load of cred with his Beale Street country blues shuffling along to vocals that channel Tom Waits growl and the accompanying cacophonous picking and percussion.

A biography of a self-mythologized character like Tom Waits is a daunting task. The intertwined aspects of his art and public persona can't be easily pried apart, and part of the attraction such a figure has is precisely that mystique.

In the event you're hoping for a love connection at Harlem megastar Cam'ron's show tonight, know that the guy's idea of foreplay is "Get in the car, and don't touch nothin'/Either we lovin' or I'll see you tomorrow." He's at B.B. King's . Marc Ribot is best known for the shambling licks he contributed to Tom Waits' masterwork Rain Dogs , but the ...

Ben Prestage racks up amps-load of cred with his Beale Street country blues shuffling along to vocals that channel Tom Waits growl and the accompanying cacophonous picking and percussion.

The succession of trailing piano strokes that begins Rocco Deluca's sophomore release hints early at the haunted landscape of layers about to unfold.

Singer and musician Ramblin Jack Elliott of Marshall has released his second album, 'A Stranger Here.' At age 77, Marin's own Ramblin' Jack Elliott has a hit on his hands.

Eighteen-year-old bluegrass whiz Sarah Jarosz will have just graduated from high school when her first album is released this summer, but her age is nearly beside the point.

With her black hair piled high, ruby-red lipstick, white shirt with prominent cuffs showing out of the sleeves of her black men's frock coat, and a tie, Holly Cole looked like the emcee from Cabaret .

Rock A.A. Bondy, Holly Miranda Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., www.futureshock.net 9 p.m., $8, 21+ Following on the Rosewood Thieves show, another act that reaches into the roots of American music, only a little further into the deep South and the kind of primeval, good/evil, transparently symbolic ballads that populate The Anthology of American ...

The first version is closer to Waits', with its jaunty music and menacing take on the "Flintstones" theme: "Come on along with the Black Rider / We'll have a gay old time /Lay down in the web of the Black Spider / I'll drink your blood like wine." The second version is a surf tune, with a Ventures-like guitar riff and Black crooning the lyrics in a ...

Charlie Winston spent much of the past few years as a struggling musician in Britain, gigging in pubs, busking on bridges - and remaining almost entirely unknown.

Nearly 20 years ago, "The Black Rider," a so-called musical fable with music and lyrics by Tom Waits and a story drawn from Carl Maria von Weber's opera "Der Freischutz," scored a big success at Hamburg's Thalia Theater in a production by Robert Wilson.

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Live music and more, tonight through Thursday, compiled by Shaun Brady, Tom Di Nardo, James Johnson, Sara Sherr and Jonathan Takiff.

Perfect Sound Forever , friend-of-SOTC Jason Gross' long-running online music mag, has an excerpt from Lowside of the Road , Barney Hoskyns' new Tom Waits biography.

Roberto Benigni broke into America's consciousness with Life Is Beautiful , a tragicomic film set in a Nazi concentration camp for which he was the co-writer, directer, and star.