New Tom Waits Album Out Today

The much-loved gravel-gargling American is back…

LISTEN: New Tom Waits

A peach of a track and, yes, he still sounds like he's gargling lava

God's Away On Business (Cookie Monster mash-up)

Glitter & Doom Live

A sophisticated gentleman does a poo

Tom Waits announces live album details

One of the tracks was recorded in Dublin.

International Songwriting Competition announces judges

The deadline is approaching for entries to the 2008 International Songwriting Competition, with the full list of judges just announced, including Tom Waits and Black Francis.

Tom Waits live at The Rat Cellar, Phoenix Park

His body is the medium for that voice, which causes him to shudder and shake, as though frustrated by the limits of his corporeal prison.

Tom Waits wows Dublin crowds on opening night

Tom Waits kicked off his three-night stint in Phoenix Park last night with an evening of stories, song, glitter and doom...

NEWSFLASH: Last minute Tom Waits tickets available

Last minute tickets are now available for tonight's Tom Waits show at the Rat Cellar, Phoenix Park.

Tom Waits live in Dublin

Live photos from Tom Waits' first of three Dublin dates at the Rat Cellar marquee in Phoenix Park on July 31.

Tom Waits stage times and ticket security information announced

Ahead of Tom Waits' much-anticipated Dublin visit for three gigs this Wednesday July 30 – Friday August 1, organisers have released final stage time and ticket security information.

Tom Waits kicks off World Tour

Tom Waits opened his Glitter And Doom World Tour on Tuesday night in Phoenix, Arizona to universally rave reviews.

Tom Waits' True Confessions

(A conversation with himself)

Tom Waits reveals Irish show details

Tom Waits plays three nights at The RatCellar in Phoenix Park this July, with tickets going on sale next week.

Tom Waits to employ anti-tout measures

Tom Waits will be doing his best to beat the touts when he brings his Glitter And Doom tour to Dublin on this July.

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Waits confirms Irish dates

Hotpress.com can now confirm that Tom Waits will play two Irish dates this summer, in the Phoenix Park, Dublin.

Waits close to confirming Dublin dates

Numerous venues rumoured for Waits' in promoters bidding war

Orphans - Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards

Tom Waits's new album is a sprawling, all-encompassing collection of politics, history and cultural tidbits. Brilliant.

Tom Waits live at Koninkliij Theater Carre, Amsterdam

Someone once said that listening to a Tom Waits CD is more like watching a play than hearing an album. So seeing a Tom Waits show is perhaps akin to some abstruse sensory overload that, no matter how high the expectation, will bite you like a shark. The Carre Theatre in Amsterdam is a beautifully classic, large auditorium with retracting chandeliers and burgundy seats.

Daddy cool

In a rare interview, US alt culture icon Tom Waits talks to Dave Fanning about touring with Zappa, getting the nod of approval from Dylan, his fastidious approach to songwriting and why Bill Hicks remains America’s foremost political commentator

Real gone

The only problem with writing about any new Tom Waits record is the man himself describes his own work so accurately that any further attempts at conceptualism are rendered superfluous.

Alice/Blood Money

Alice and Blood Money are Siamese twinsets written by Waits and his wife Kathleen Brennan for a stage production directed by Texan image alchemist Robert Wilson

The Black Rider

The Black Rider is Waits’ strangest album yet and also possibly his strongest.

Bone Machine

See him after midnight in the trailer-park: beside his fire with its strange aromas, the withered man with the parched voice and the piercing eyes with even stranger talismans on his jacket.

Rain Dogs

*Well, it's 9th and Hannepin/And all the donuts have/names that sound like prostitutes/And the moon's teethmarks are/on the sky like a tarp thrown over this...*

Heartattack And Vine

A misbegotten, footsore bone-crushing trek through the industrial badlands of Northern Germany finally left me in a single hotel room in Frankfurt uncorking a dutyfree bottle of Old Bushmills.