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 ...

Regarded by many as one of the finest songwriters in the American canon, and a distinctive urban storyteller beyond compare, Tom Waits has long been hailed for his chronicles of the dispossessed, and ...

Writer-director Jim Jarmusch's latest is "a film of quiet yearning and missed connections, about people who want to love each ...

You can never quite pin down an artist as mercurial as Tom Waits. Even within the course of a single album, he’ll take you on such a wild ride that you won’t know what to expect from song to song.