L.A. Times - Entertainment — They will be welcomed into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next spring.They will be welcomed into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next spring. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Tom Waits, Neil Diamond, the Alice Cooper Band, Dr. John and Darlene Love will be welcomed into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next spring, the organization will announce Wednesday. All five had been long eligible for induction under... more info

Pop Bytes — After two years of marriage, it looks like Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson have split. What, did he finally get around to listening to her Tom Waits cover album? Seriously, how do you ruin a Tom Waits song, for Christ's sake? The man sounds like... more info

Impose Magazine — News of a new Blu album picked up  dramatically in the remaining month of 2010 and now we're getting a glimpse into the possibility of the next collaborative record with Exile. The track "Seasons" samples Tom Waits rather liberally, which has me won... more info

Starpulse — Happy Birthday to: Singer/actor Tom Waits (1949) "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" actress Emily Browning (1988) Aaron Carter (1987) "The Outsiders" actor C. Thomas Howell (1966... more info

All About Jazz — Lucky Peterson was a childhood prodigy playing blues and R&B from an early age and mastering several instruments, even scoring a major label deal at one point. After some personal problems that led him to take a lower profile, he returns with this al... more info

Guardian Music — Tom Waits lets the song wind his wife around him – warmly, tenderly, with the delicate touch of a man who can't quite believe his luckThere are, to my thinking, few more perfect love songs than Tom Waits's Johnsburg, Illinois. It's the simplest of ... more info

Culture Bully — Thirty five years ago Tom Waits revealed his distaste for the term "poet"; now he is one (officially). more info

Guardian Music — How did the painfully shy son of a Dutch minister become one of the world's hottest rock photographers – and now a celebrated director? Anton Corbijn talks to Stuart JeffriesIn the years since he used his dad's camera to snap an obscure prog-rock... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — NME reports that Tom Waits' first book of poetry will be published next March. The finalists for the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2010 have been announced. Yesterday's updates to the online "best books of 2010" lists included... more info