When Tom Waits came onto the music scene in the early 1970s, he was a golden-voiced, handsome piano player/crooner who wrote poetic songs that mixed lyrics and style like a bartender mixes spirits and ...

I was eight years old when I experienced my first Tom Waits song. It was like nothing I’d ever heard before. Granted, at the age of eight, that wasn’t saying a lot, but the statement continues to ...

"Across the western hemisphere, state authoritarianism and the militarisation of police forces are fusing again with neo-fascist politics." Massive Attack have teamed up with Tom Waits for a haunting ...

It may have been our last edition of our monthly Now Playing test track rundown, or perhaps the edition before, where I got all misty-eyed about Tom Waits’ signature ballad Martha. Wherever and ...

Protest songs take on a variety of forms. Songwriters can go the direct route and call out the issues that they want to tackle in their lyrics. The tricky part with this method is that the emotions of ...

In 1999, scraggly-voiced junkyard wizard Tom Waits released Mule Variations, his first album in six years. The big punk label Epitaph started its offshoot imprint Anti- specifically to release Mule ...

To mark the 25th anniversary of both Tom Waits’ Mule Variations and the record label Anti, an unreleased “Spiritual” rendition of the standout “Get Behind the Mule” has been unearthed for the first ...

Tom Waits has released a new single with trip-hop icons Massive Attack. The song is called "Boots on the Ground". It is Waits' first new music in 15 years. It's a digital release now and will also be ...

Tom Waits hasn't made a full studio album, if you can call what Waits does when recording new work something done in a "studio," since 2011. Until this week, he hadn't created a new single since 2018, ...

Tom Waits has released his first new original music in 15 years, collaborating with Massive Attack on "Boots on the Ground," a dark, politically charged protest song.

Included in Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Song Writers of All Time and a 2011 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Tom Waits is one of the most innovative artists in popular music. His ...

Tom Waits has shared a previously unreleased version of “Get Behind the Mule.” The song, which originally appeared on his Grammy-winning 1999 studio album Mule Variations, is coming out to ring in the ...