Magnet Magazine — Happy 75th birthday Tom Waits. World keeps turning. Photos for MAGNET by Christian Lantry. Read our Waits cover story from 2004: The post Happy 75th Birthday Tom Waits appeared first on Magnet Magazine. more info

Obscure Sound — Enveloping with an invigorating rock sound, Levitator is the new album from Melbourne-based band Society of Beggars. Satiating structural rises pair with an emotional lyrical core; the album was crafted during personal tumult, following the loss of f... more info

Magnet Magazine — 15 years ago today, Tom Waits released Glitter And Doom Live. It’s weird everywhere when you think about it. Read our classic Waits cover story: The post Tom Waits Released “Glitter And Doom Live” 15 Years Ago Today appeared first on Magnet Mag... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy 80th birthday Kinky Friedman. R.I.P. The last of the Jewish cowboys. Read the Kinkster in MAGNET on Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Merle Haggard, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Warren Zevon and more: The post Happy 80th Birthday Kinky Friedman, R.I.P. appe... more info

Antimusic Rock — ANTI- Records have announced that they will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Tom Waits' 'The Heart Of Saturday Night' more info

Magnet Magazine — 50 years ago today, Tom Waits released The Heart Of Saturday Night. Still haven’t found what we’re looking for. Read our classic Waits cover story: The post Tom Waits Released “The Heart Of Saturday Night” 50 Years Ago Today appeared first on... more info

Magnet Magazine — 20 years ago today, Tom Waits released Real Gone. Drag your tail pipe till you bottom out. Read our Waits cover story from that year: The post Tom Waits Released “Real Gone” 20 Years Ago Today appeared first on Magnet Magazine. more info

Stereogum — 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 Variations, and that imprint is still going stron... more info

Stereogum — We don’t really get new music out of Tom Waits anymore, but he does appear onscreen from time to time, especially when fellow hip music guy Jim Jarmusch comes calling. The world’s greatest Cookie Monster impersonator has appeared in four of Ja... more info

Obscure Sound — Showing shades of Tom Waits and The Psychedelic Furs, “A Town Called Chapel” is a compelling new single from Leon Frear. The Chicago-based artist describes the effort as “a poison pen love letter to an historically musical time and place, to bi... more info