Tom Waits, the legendary lounge singer turned iconoclast bluesman Cookie Monster genius freak, made his first concert appearance in five years Sunday at Neil Young’s Bridge School Benefit in Mountain View, California. He performed a 10-song set backed by a large band including Les Claypool of Primus on bass and David Hidalgo of Los Lob...

The legendary singer hasn't performed a live show since 2008    

Heard through the wall of a neighboring apartment, you might confuse Tom Waits’s music with Howlin’ Wolf’s. Then again, you could just as easily mistake it for a long-lost Harry Partch piece, an especially ‘out’ Busta Rhymes interlude, or a bootleg recording of Randy Newman twelve-stepping in rev...

Sam Beam, bka Iron & Wine gets his lighthearted-Tom Waits on for “Rattling Bone” from the The Lone Ranger soundtrack. The Disney reboot stars Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer and is directed by Gore Verbinski, who previously worked with Depp on Pirates Of The Caribbean. Verbinski also flexed his music muscles by co-produ...

On their current “50 And Counting” arena tour, the Rolling Stone have regularly been welcoming guests, including Tom Waits, to their stage. And when they played in Arcade Fire’s hometown of Montreal over the weekend, Arcade Fire frontman (and new dad) Win Butler joined them to sing and play guitar on the Stones&...