Tom Waits

Can Scarlett Johansson sing? Can Scarlett Johansson sing?
On her debut album the velvety-voiced actress's dreamily erotic charms are not lost in translation.
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Another from Tom Waits' seemingly inexhaustible supply of classic songs.
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Tom Waits weighs in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Free music from Tom Waits.
Tom Waits picks his favorites Tom Waits picks his favorites
20 most cherished albums with characteristically surreal commentary
Double down Double down
Tom Waits released two proper records in a decade. Then he dropped two crusted with rust and riotous cacophony in one day.
Jonathan Richman Jonathan Richman
The rough and charming godfather of punk sings quietly now and makes us nostalgic for a time that never existed.
Tom Waits Tom Waits
With his trademark throaty growl, he's a piano bar crooner and a Coney Island barker, singing songs of loneliness and desperation.
Amy Sedaris digs wigs and baking
The star of "Strangers With Candy" likes "small woodland creatures" and wants to play Angie Dickinson as "Police Woman."
Sharps & Flats
The vision of a Valkyrian dominatrix, Ute Lemper steps into a smoky cabaret with songs by Tom Waits, Kurt Weill, Nick Cave and Elvis Costello.
Blue Glow
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Sharps & flats
"Saturday Night Live" has 24 years of the best acts in rock 'n' roll on tape. Too bad none of that made it onto a new two-CD compilation.
Uh, Miss?
By playing a waitress in a video, Britney Spears tries to connect with a great rock tradition. Check, please.
"Big Time" redux
Live in Los Angeles, Tom Waits pierces the heart of Saturday night.
Ain't nothin' funny about a drunk
Tom Waits brings it all home.
Chuck E. Weiss
Sharps & Flats is a weekly music review roundup in Salon Magazine
"Is This Desire" -- or just bad performance art?
In her first release in three years, Polly Jean Harvey offers sops to a self-consciously hip underground.

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