- 12/30/12 /
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Your Sunday Long Reads: Conan O’Brien’s Dystopian Vision, Quentin Tarantino on Django and Race, and Tom Waits on L.A.
Another excuse to stay indoors.
Tom Waits
- 8/7/12 /
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Watch the Video for Tom Waits’s ‘Hell Broke Luce’
Marilyn Manson just peed his pants in fear.
- 7/10/12 /
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Last Night on Late Night: Rose Byrne, Jimmy Fallon Spoofed a Cheesy Lawyer Commercial
Plus: Tom Waits took absurdly cool pleasure in showing off his new, grisly medieval rat trap, and more, on our daily late-night roundup.
- 10/24/11 /
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Stream Tom Waits’s New Album in Its Entirety
'Bad As Me': It's here!
- 10/20/11 /
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Tom Waits Throws the Right Kind of New Year’s Parties
"Play like you have no pants on."
- 8/17/11 /
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Watch Cookie Monster Dominate Tom Waits’s ‘God’s Away on Business’
This is perfect.
- 3/16/11 /
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Tom Waits Is Basically Edward Cullen, and Other Things We Learned at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction
Like, for example, Bruce Springsteen likes the Red Sox!
- 12/15/10 /
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And Your 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees Are ...
[Drumroll.]
- 11/23/10 /
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Tom Waits Is Writing the Most Fun Book of Poetry Ever
Actually, no. But maybe the most depressing!
- 11/4/10 /
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See Anton Corbijn’s Photographs of Springsteen, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Alexander McQueen, and Others
"As a person to photograph, [Bruce Springsteen] is up there in a way with Tom Waits, I think. They’ve so become the people they want to be."
- 2/12/10 /
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Stream the Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s Benefit Album, With Tom Waits, Merle Haggard, Andrew Bird
Stream now, buy later.
- 12/28/09 /
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Tom Waits Upsets Mom With Devil Role
"Moms imagine terrible things — that I'm eating children, which is just not me. I'm not that kind of devil, mom."
- 10/13/09 /
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Tom Waits to Release Stand-up Comedy Album, Basically
Tom Waits's upcoming live album will come packed with a bonus disc featuring 35 minutes of his circuitous stage banter.
- 7/8/09 /
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Gary Busey, Serial Entourage Tickler
Plus: Tom Waits declares his love for Denny's.
- 4/8/09 /
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The Hold Steady and Music’s Booziest Bands and Artists
There are only a select few bands that have booze, whether in the form of lyrical content, real-life behavior, or (usually) a lot of both, truly ingrained in their artistic DNA.
- 11/4/08 /
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Tom Waits and Kool Keith: Together at Last
Plus: Stephen Malkmus! Blitzen Trapper! Fireflies!
- 6/23/08 /
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Scarlett Johansson No Longer Responsible for World’s Weirdest Tom Waits Cover
Plus: New music from Bill Callahan and Metallica!
- 5/21/08 /
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Tom Waits Inexplicably Cast As Scary-Voiced Evil Person
Plus: Chuck D. on forgetting the words.
- 5/19/08 /
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The Genius of Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson's album of Tom Waits covers goes on sale tomorrow, but a critical consensus has already emerged. And it says: She sucks.
- 4/29/08 /
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Scarlett Johansson's Music Video Confirms: Her Album Is Good
The video to "Falling Down" might as well be the sequel to 'Lost in Translation' — and we like it.
- 3/25/08 /
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Dammit, Scarlett Johansson's Album Might Be Good
Not only is Scarlett Johansson unattainably beautiful and rich, she may be possessed of a quality singing voice.
- 1/25/08 /
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They Are Actually Trying to Convince Ryan Gosling to Play Jack Ryan
Plus: Laurence Fishburne has never made a bad movie.
- 10/26/07 /
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The Ten Best Single-Artist Soundtracks Ever
The Beatles were not considered, since they always win everything.
- 10/17/07 /
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Tom Waits Heralds the Return of Chocolate Jesus
Cosimo Cavallaro "My Sweet Lord," a statue of a crucified Jesus made entirely out of chocolate, makes its return to Chelsea's Proposition Gallery on October 27. So enjoy this Tom Waits song!
- 10/12/07 /
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Arcade Fire Celebrates No. 2 Status
New music from Daft Punk and Cold War Kids!