News Tom Waits shares loving tribute to late friend Hal Willner by Julia Lo Surdo Tom Waits and wife Kathleen Brennan have written a long and heartfelt tribute to music producer Hal Willner following his passing earlier this month. Their…
News Wondering what on earth Tom Waits listens to? Here’s his 20 favourite albums by Happy Making your way through Tom Waits discography, you’ll be guided through scenes of seedy night clubs, pubs, and bars inhabited by drunks, poets and a…
Features 10 records to introduce you to the world of art-rock by Luke Saunders For the most part, art-rock is an undocumented musical niche. A small fragment under the oversized umbrella of rock, that exists as a translucent concept…
News Science Revealed: science says Tom Waits fans are ‘open’, The Smiths fans are ‘neurotic’ by Stanley Widdison A study that was done in 2015 by Stanford University and Cambridge University Psychometrics Centre has been dredged up in the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal,…
Features From the underground to the avant-garde: the 10 best albums of Tom Waits by Luke Saunders Born in the back of a cab in a parking lot at Pomona hospital in California, Tom Waits has confounded and allured listeners in equal…
Features A guide to Asylum Records in 5 essential albums by Luke Saunders In the psychedelic ’60s the Sunset Strip was soaked with LSD, counter culture rhetoric, and free loving ways. Iconoclasts of the movement will say it’s…
News Tom Waits has penned a poem about Keith Richards by Happy Last week, legendary Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards (miraculously) reached his 76th birthday. To celebrate the occasion, Tom Waits has penned a new original poem…
News Pour yourself a whiskey and dive into this 24-hour playlist of Tom Waits’ entire discography by Happy Attempting to immerse yourself in the work of an artist as prolific as Tom Waits can be intimidating. But what better way to start than…
Features Songwriting tips from the greats: Rilke, Cohen, Cave and Waits by Luke Saunders How to write a song. As someone with almost no authority on the subject I won’t attempt to lecture you from my pinched and narrow…
Lists The best (or worst) trainwreck interviews of all time by Happy Rock stars: is there anything they can’t do? Pampered, preened and often many hours without sleep, what’s a humble rock star to do but ruin…
News An all-female Tom Waits tribute album is coming in November by Patti Burton Phoebe Bridgers, Aimee Mann, Angie McMahon and Patty Griffin have been named as just a few of the artists who will feature on an all-female…
News Tom Waits makes rare appearance at Jack White show, allegedly steals his watch by Happy In recent years, Tom Waits sightings have become a rare occurrence. Though on Thursday night, Waits stopped by Jack White’s show at the Bill Graham…
Film News Tom Waits has been cast in the new Coen Brothers film by Happy The Coen Brothers have shared some details for their upcoming movie, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and it’s set to star Tim Blake Nelson, Stephen Root,…
