A spirited Mavis Staples cover of Tom Waits‘s “Chicago” gives us reason to muse on music, migration, and our city.

Metallica frontman James Hetfield is among the defining figures of American metal, but there is pat of him that wishes he ...

Despite not featuring on the card, Aspinall continued to steal the spotlight with his attempts to goad Jones into a undisputed clash at the O2 Arena.

Plenty of musicians have transitioned into acting, but many are fine making cameos in movies, whether as themselves or ...

Tom Waits might be an acquired taste for many, but even he knew the greatest tunes of all time have that same starting point.

If your mom lives in Huntsville, now you know what to get her for Christmas. Rod Stewart, one of rock’s greatest singers/frontmen and pretend boyfriend to millions of women of a certain age, has ...

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 ...

Shohei Ohtani’s performance for the ages in the Dodgers’ Game 4 NLCS victory over the Brewers had us all thinking the same thing: Was it the greatest individual performance ever by an athlete? Tom ...

This past February, Tom Waits appeared in the final episode of The Human Factor, a documentary about homelessness in the American South, produced by Italian public TV channel RAI3. Titled “The Last ...

Tom Waits has released his performance of his 1976 song “Tom Traubert’s Blues” for the Italian docuseries Il Fattore Umano (The Human Factor), which aired earlier this year. Waits participated in the ...

The ascent of Nigerian music to global dominance is no longer a conversation about potential. It has now been etched into the annals of music history. This week, American pop culture custodians, ...