Reissued version is split into sections with his blessing. The only flaw is a triggering Margaret Thatcher impersonation ...

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To celebrate 40 years of 'Rain Dogs', here are four must-know tracks from an Americana masterpiece by Tom Waits.

The only album by Top Jimmy, the blues singer immortalized in the Van Halen song on the 1984 album, and his longtime band the Rhythm Pigs, is set for re-release next year.

The 80s proved to be a productive, turbulent, career-altering decade for Tom Petty. He released four studio LPs with the Heartbreakers and then punctuated the decade with his first solo album. Petty ...

Tom Scharpling visits with Pitchfork to explain why the soundtrack to the Monkee's 1968 film "Head" is a perfect record from start to finish. As California highway slides toward sea, the fix will take ...

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Regarded by many as one of the finest songwriters in the American canon, and a distinctive urban storyteller beyond compare, Tom Waits has long been hailed for his chronicles of the dispossessed, and ...