LargeHeartedBoy — Fresh Air interviews Tom Waits about his new album, Bad as Me. "For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see... more info

Guardian Music — Bishopsgate Centre, LondonBoth power trio and a supergroup that spans three generations, expectations were high for this soldout concert. Drummer Chad Taylor was a lynchpin of the Chicago Underground scene and lineups that joined the dots between pos... more info

Detroit Free Press — I was laughing out loud and then choking back tears while first absorbing the kaleidoscopic moods of the superb new Tom Waits album “Bad As Me” ( * * * * out of four stars, in stores now, Anti-). The gamut of emotions was reminiscent of what I fe... more info

Mercury News, California — The new disc swirls with adventure and includes the instant-classic ballad 'Back in the Crowd,' the stomping march 'Hell Broke Luce' and the transcendent closer 'New Year's Eve,' a quiet yarn of a waltz. more info

Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offGrandaddy He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot The opening track from Grandaddy's wonderful 2000 album, The Sophtware Slump, is a gorgeous, slo-mo symphony of fear and u... more info

Guardian Music — (Fuzzy Moon) The great British jazz singer Norma Winstone has just passed her 70th. Having spent much of her career working with composers who've used her range and precision as a texture, she has blossomed in recent years, with the superb Grammy-nom... more info

Stereogum — The internet is awash in riches borne of Waits’s latest — we’ve been partying around the new LP Bad As Me, and now two of the album’s three bonus tracks are up for listens, too. Yesterday it was “After You Die“; today you can hear the hea... more info

Guardian Music — The band have followed in Adele's footsteps by ensuring their latest album won't be available on most streaming servicesIf Spotify is the future of the music industry, then Coldplay are betting on the present. The rockers' label has revealed that the... more info

Stereogum — Tom Waits Bad As Me is out now, and today a bonus track from the LP has hit the web. Hear “After You Die” via Table Top Lo. Bad As Me is out now on Anti-. more info

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