Singer-songwriter Afton Wolfe is arguably the most conceptually artful troubadour that we have heard since Tom Waits. The ...

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

Peter Guralnick's new book 'The Colonel and the King' focuses on Colonel Tom Parker, and he's picked out 10 songs that tell his incredible story.

Highlights include holiday celebrations Light the Way and Winter Carnival, Mavis Staples, Christian Nodal and comedian John ...

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

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

When the news seems an unending doomscroll of bad news and darkness, one palliative virtually guaranteed to lighten the soul's burden is to put on Waits' "Mule Variations" and ride it all the way to ...

Two international cabaret performers are set to delight audiences in Chichester and Brighton with their festive show.

Tom Jones has been associated with numerous women throughout his life, but none held a more special place in his heart than his late wife, Melinda. Sir Tom and Melinda Rose Woodward, affectionately ...

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 ...