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Readers recommend: songs about superheroes – results

4919 days ago
Guardian MusicIt's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's your pick of songs with superpowers, from the Batman Theme to Spidey's Wild RidePow! A good pop record has impact, and often shock value. And we want to imagine our pop stars as lifted from ordinary life to become ... more info

"The eccentric & grizzled uncle I never had" - Ed Harcourt on Tom Waits

4919 days ago
DrownedInSoundOur series of Tom Waits pieces continues with one of DiS' favourite songwriters on his favourite songwriter, Mr. Tom Waits... Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

David Coulter on Tom Waits' Rain Dogs

4919 days ago
DrownedInSoundDavid Coulter, the multi-instrumentalist who worked with Tom Waits on The Black Rider, is the musical director for the live project, Rain Dogs Revisited. With a host of guest artists reinterpreting tracks from Tom Waits' legendary album, Coulter will... more info

Discovering the exquisite carnival of Tom Waits' Rain Dogs

4920 days ago
DrownedInSoundOn 13th July, Rain Dogs Revisited comes to the Barbican in London. Over the next three days, Drowned in Sound presents a series of pieces reevaluating and celebrating this classic Tom Waits album.... Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com ... more info

Manchester international festival: Sinéad O'Connor, Rickie Lee Jones and more Björk

4923 days ago
Guardian MusicKitty Empire has her say on Biophilia, while Dr Dee continues to be a talking point and Sinéad O'Connor thrills the festival pavillionLast night at the Manchester international festival I finally got to see violinist Alina Ibragimova's collaboration... more info

'The stage is mine and it can't be taken away from me'

4923 days ago
Guardian MusicThe singer-songwriter talks about politics, Pirates, Tom Waits and the Summer of LoveYou became famous very fast with your first single, "Chuck E's in Love", in 1979. Is there anything you know now that you wish you'd known then?I wish I would have k... more info

Liane Carroll: Up and Down – review

4932 days ago
Guardian Music(Quietmoney) British singer/pianist Liane Carroll comes from the opposite end of the jazz-vocals galaxy to Gretchen Parlato. She's a powerful, soul-inflected performer with an Ella Fitzgerald-like improv athleticism and an emotional frankness on ball... more info

Red Hot compilation promotes Aids awareness through tropicália

4938 days ago
Guardian MusicThe series which started with Cole Porter covers recognises Brazil's recognition as 'a major force in world affairs'In 1989, Leigh Blake and John Carlin were just two friends with a dream. In response to the effect of the Aids epidemic on NYC's artis... more info

Tom Waits – Poor Edward

4941 days ago
Song, by ToadThis is rather nice.  It’s really simple too, and looks (the rigours of stop-motion animation notwithstanding) like it wasn’t too tricky to make, either. I have been wondering this about music videos recently: what exactly makes a proper ‘musi... more info

My old man's a rock star: the musicians who join their parents' bands

4941 days ago
Guardian MusicFrom Young Dirty Bastard to Wolfgang Van Halen, musical offspring are following in their rock star folks' footstepsIt's the tragic dilemma that some bands are faced with: how to carry on when one of your members has died. When Wu Tang Clan lost their... more info

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