The National Conference of Personal Managers has announced the Class of 2025 Hall of Fame inductees. Among several are ...

A look at the empathy and kindness Tom Waits' songs show those victimised by American life, and the scorn he shows those who succeeded on their backs.

The Personal Manager Hall of Fame's 2025 inductees include managers who guided the careers of KISS, Alabama, Tom Waits and more. See the full list.

Tom Waits' Martha is one of our go-to test tracks, and if you can handle its emotional punch, it should be one of yours, too.

Few musicians have captured the emotional complexity of being an American in the 20th and 21st centuries with as much elegance and nuance as Tom Waits. Blending blues, jazz, rock, and experimental ...

Tom Waits took the stage unannounced to help Mick Jagger sing 'Little Red Rooster' during Sunday night's Rolling Stones concert in Oakland, Calif. The rarely-seen singer/songwriter was in top form ...

Tom Waits' Grammy-winning Bone Machine was released 25 years ago this week — here's an exhaustively annotated track-by-track breakdown to celebrate. People will tell you Tom Waits’ best album ...

Waits sometimes treats truth like a song, making it more interesting by whacking at it with his wild imagination. "I'm in my late 30s," he says. He turns 57 next month. And so it goes.

Tom Waits With his trademark throaty growl, he's a piano bar crooner and a Coney Island barker, singing songs of loneliness and desperation.

Two Tom Waits albums, because the jukebox had a few empty sleeves, and I wrote something like, "These CDs are looking for a home in a smoky dive bar in the French Quarter.

On 1992's "Bone Machine," Tom Waits told a gruesome tale of "Murder in the Red Barn." Now, on "Real Gone," he implores us "Don't Go Into That Barn." Right. Like anyone could stay outside. We're ...

Tom Waits and collaborator and wife Kathleen Brennan penned a tribute to late producer and longtime friend, Hal Willner. Willner died last week at the age of 64.