KEXP Seattle — This week, the seven-year wait is over! Bad As Me, the latest from Tom Waits, tops this week’s list of new releases. For the typically idiosyncratic musical vagabond, the new album seems more of a journey through his previous styles than an outrage... more info

Time — On his first collection of entirely new material since 2004, Waits picks through the scrap of his nearly 40-year career and shows that a shine can be salvaged from even the rustiest pieces. more info

DrownedInSound — Bad As Me sees Tom Waits reaching back into his bag of tricks to pull out a few favourites in a characteristically exhilarating, terrifying, heartbreaking, tear jerking, bone-rattling style. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

USA Today Music — Waits' first batch of new songs in seven years finds him to be typically feisty and in fine, fine voice. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Tom Waits' first album in seven years, Bad as Me, is in stores this week, as is the first listenable holiday record of the year, A Very She & Him Christmas (courtesy of M. Ward and Zoey Deschanel). From... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — You’d be forgiven for not realizing it had been seven years since the last Tom Waits album of new material. Between the enormous wealth of fantastic, previously unreleased songs on 2006′s Orphans boxset and the 2008 Glitter and Doom tour and subs... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — NPR is streaming the new Tom Waits album, Bad as Me (in stores today). The New Yorker reviews the album. In stores today: the biography Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Only Gizmos lists six other great books about Jobs. Austin... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Waits' first all-new studio record in seven years toggles constantly between heartsick vulnerability and hell-bound defiance. Tom Waits' new album, Bad As Me, is out on Oct. 24. Read more » more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — Some folks like Coldplay. Some folks like Tom Waits. I happen to like both. So rather than shortchange either, I gave them equal time this week. Like it or lump it. more info

Guardian Music — It's decades since Tom Waits had a drink and his music has just got weirder and better. With his 17th album out, he heads for his local roadhouse (for coffee) and talks about songwriting, hard living and his fear of phones "I used to think that all g... more info