All About Jazz — A lean, pop-jazz hipster whose buzz-saw voice, much like that of Tom Waits, slices away glib sentimentality, Curtis Stigers is not the usual sort of act one finds at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel, although he has played there before. (The last ... more info

JamBase — Stockholm Syndrome Returns - Announce 4 Shows This Summer Stockholm Syndrome Stockholm Syndrome featuring Dave Schools, Jerry Joseph, Eric McFadden, Danny Louis, and Wally Ingram have announced four shows for this summer and tickets are on sale ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — mr.A said...Farflung - Live at Strange Daze '99 with Nik TurnerAntonio Roybal (Art) http://wine-women-song.blogspot.comblackbeard said...Alfonzo - Alfonzo (1982)Big Ballers Soundtrack (1998)Colonel Abrams - About Romance (1992)David Grant - David Gra... more info

Guardian Music — Start thumbing through your A-Z of Britain. This week, it's all about borough ballads, district ditties and urban anthemsSome of you (I'm looking at nobody in particular here, balearicbeat, steenbeck) thought that this topic would be too hard. Others... more info

JamBase — BONNAROO SET TO DONATE TO NEW ORLEANS NON-PROFIT GROUPS Bonnaroo 2008 by Rod Snyder The Bonnaroo Music Festival is proud to announce that it will donate $240,000 to a variety of New Orleans non-profit groups. In their continuing effort to promote... more info

Live Daily — Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn's album of duets, "Break Up," is expected to hit retailers Sept. 8, according to the album's website. The album, reportedly inspired by Brigitte Bardot's work with Serge Gainsbourg, follows the starlet's 2008 release,... more info

Guardian Music — For our latest exclusive podcast, Island founder Chris Blackwell recalls the talents of Nick Drake and Tom Waits more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Cacace/AFP/Getty Pete Yorn has been swamped recording three separate albums, but only one of the trio features an Golden Globe-nominated actress who’s a famous fan of Tom Waits: Scarlett Johansson. On Break Up, due September 8th, Yorn sings ... more info

Rolling Stone — Pete Yorn has been swamped recording three separate albums, but only one of the trio features an Golden Globe-nominated actress who’s a famous fan of Tom Waits: Scarlett Johannson. On Break Up, due September 8th, Yorn sings duets with Johanssen in ... more info

Mercury News, California — Tom Waits is as potent and unpredictable a musical force as most of us have witnessed in our lifetimes, and that's not faint praise. The graveyard croak of his gravelly, bellowing baritone is righteous, paint-scraping, unmistakable; it scatters small... more info