The Quietus — 'Seeds On Hard Ground' to be available from next month more info

ContactMusic — Rock & Roll Hall of Fame-bound singer TOM WAITS is releasing a poetry book to raise funds for California homeless charities.The limited edition book, Seeds On Hard Ground, will only be available via the Downtown Train crooner's website. He hopes the ... more info

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NME — Waits compares Don Van Vliet to Sun Ra and Miles Davis more info

Guardian Music — Tom Waits, Billy Bragg and Zola Jesus are among those to salute Don Van Vliet, who died last week aged 69Following the death of Don Van Vliet last week, musicians have united to praise the man who performed as Captain Beefheart. Tom Waits, Zola Jesus... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — "the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announced the Alice Cooper Band, Neil Diamond, Dr. John, Darlene Love and Tom Waits as its 2011 performer inductees. Also being inducted this year as individual recipients of the Ahmet Ertegun Award... more info

Guardian Music — The great eccentric's influence is all around usBack in 1969, a self-confessed "teenage weirdo" from Portland, Oregon, fell under the spell of a newly-released double album called Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. Over 40 ye... more info

Guardian Music — The influence of Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, stretched from the Grateful Dead to the Sex Pistols and beyondDon Van Vliet, better-known as Captain Beefheart, one of the most influential American musicians of the 1960s and 1970s and avant gar... more info

Guardian Music — Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, was mysterious, alchemical, inexplicable and unrepeatableHe never sold many records. His biggest hit album, Lick My Decals Off Baby, reached number 20 in the UK in 1970. But in a recording career that lasted from... more info

Guardian Music — Singer named as one of the official 2011 inductees alongside Alice Cooper, Neil Diamond, Dr John and Darlene LoveTom Waits is to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it was announced yesterday. The gravel-voiced singer will share a hallow... more info