Mercury News, California — Tom Waits will be inducted March 14. Will Green Day, Journey and Joan Baez get their day in the limelight? more info

Topix — L'Orchestre d'Hommes-Orchestres is a must-see act if you're at all a fan of Tom Waits ' music. more info

Guardian Music — Michel Houllebecq isn't the first author to turn songwriter - but he may be the first to do it wellSurprisingly for a writer whose latest literary works generally seem to cause a media kerfuffle in his native France and beyond, Michel Houellebecq's n... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Morning Edition profiles singer-songwriter Tom Waits. The Guardian lists the 10 best counterculture books. On sale at Amazon MP3: DeVotchKa's new 100 Lovers album. The Wall Street Journal profiles poet Richard Wilbur. Why Mr. Wilbur is not more natio... more info

Detroit Free Press — With a new tour and album around the corner, the Detroit rocker this morning delivered his first new music in more than four years: a cover of Tom Waits' "Downtown Train." more info

Guardian Music — With a new outlook, new drummer and some nice new shirts, Noah and the Whale are ready to meet the world head on. But their penchant for self-doubt hasn't left them entirely'What's that line?" Charlie Fink frowns. "'She was 15 years old and she'd ne... more info

Altsounds — Combining elements of the eclectic country music style of Beck, the folk punk power of the Pogues, and the edgy, emotional storytelling of Tom Waits come this dynamic group via Las Vegas, NV. Coastwest Unrest is the moniker for the collaboration ... more info

KEXP Seattle — Greetings, Michele Myers here, producer of KEXP Documentaries. Our current series, “Poets & Music” explores the interplay between the beat and the word with profiles on poets who record with music like William S Burroughs, Saul Williams, Gil Scot... more info

VH1 Blog — Music lovers, rejoice! We’re bringing back one of our most popular music franchises, VH1 Storytellers, for its fifteenth season. And this time around, you’ll notice that the artists have a decidedly more indie slant than they have in previous yea... more info

Songs:Illinois — There’s nothing like a tale of life in the big house to put your life in better perspective. Dan Baker’s song “365 Days” owes a bit of a debt to Tom Waits but who doesn’t really. The instrumentation on this song (accordion, restrained per... more info