Tom Waits

Six Ways of Looking at Tom Waits, Character Actor

Cory Branan Wants More People at His Dark Americana Party

It's hard to classify the music of Cory Branan. The Nashville-based artist clearly works on a country platform, but casts himself more in the Tom Waits mold of storytelling, using whatever musical form fits the tale. Given the varied sounds found on his latest release, Mutt, his first release in fou ... More >>

Tumblr of the Week: Sleevefaced

We feature a lot of brilliant music-related Tumblrs full of funny Photoshopped pictures. What's better than that, you ask?Sleevefaced, that's what.Sleevefaced is a collection of photos of people incorporating vinyl album artwork into their posed pictures. These pictures involve anything from the pho ... More >>

Bah, Humbug: Eight Un-Christmas Songs

No one loves Christmas more than Juggalos.​ Maybe I'm still bummed that Santa won't pay my bills or leave fancy camera equipment under my tree, but Christmas is lame. The holiday makes people mean and greedy -- it must have something to do with all that obnoxious music and eggnog, which is on ... More >>

Bob Log III @ Crescent Ballroom

What's Selling: Hoodlums Top 10 Selling Albums of the Week

​Want to know what new release discs and platters are moving across the Valley at local record stores? We've got you covered with another installment of What's Selling. It's been 13 years since neighborhood music store Hoodlums made their first sale. Last week we caught up with owner Steve W ... More >>

What's Selling: Stinkweeds Top 10 Selling Albums of the Week

​Want to know what new release discs and platters are moving across the Valley at local record stores? We've got you covered with another installment of What's Selling. The best part about Halloween is dressing up. Although no one in this week's list at Stinkweeds in Phoenix is particularly h ... More >>

Stinkweeds' Dario Miranda on Tonight's Tom Waits Release Party; Exposing Himself to Phoenix

​OK, so maybe Stinkweeds staffer Dario Miranda isn't exactly running around flashing his bits and pieces but he might as well be. We'll get to that later. In Phoenix, Monday nights traditionally belong to DJ Shane Kennedy and his "Torch and Twang" evening at Carly's Bistro where he plays ever ... More >>

I Wish It Would Rain -- 10 'Rain' Songs We Hope Inspire More Rain

​ So we finally got a little rain last night -- but if your car is still as dirty as mine from last week's haboob -- it wasn't nearly enough. I'm talking some serious monsoon action, the kind that lasts a few days.  Here's 10 songs that that will hopefully inspire Mother Nature to help us out ... More >>

Five Songs That Chronicle the Salt River Tubing Experience

No matter how many times you've stated the contrary, you will more than likely find yourself on a black buoyant tube floating along Salt River's murky waters this summer. You will drink copious amounts of alcohol, forget to apply sun block on at least 13 percent of your body, and you will lose at le ... More >>

Winter's Bone: Music From the Motion Picture Performed Live Last Night at Mesa Arts Center, 6-8-2011

Blackberry Winter​Winter's Bone- Music from the Film Performed LiveMesa Arts CenterJune 8, 2011Americana is a funny genre. It's not fair to call every dude or lady in cowboy boots a poser -- and, seriously, in 2011 the word poser sounds awfully outdated -- but it does seem that the acoustic guitar ... More >>

Man Man @ The Clubhouse Music Venue

Man Man

The Legendary Shack Shakers

What's Selling: Hoodlums Music and Movies

​ School is almost back in session, but Hoodlums has kept busy even while the students are out of town. Tom Waits is at the top of their sales, local acoustic sereneders Dry River Yacht Club came in second, and Bobby Dylan's Christmas album is still going strong even though Christmas is, well ... More >>

Fun With Goth

Theatrical act is like a goofball version of Dresden Dolls

The Vinyl Frontier

Djentrification busts out his bizarre repertoire of records at the Bikini

Budget Beat: Carly's Bistro

Tom Waits slays 'em on opening night in Phoenix

Future Shock: Tom Waits, Tina Turner, Coldplay, and more

Black Diamond Heavies

Heavy Trash

Going Way Out with Heavy Trash
(Yep Roc)

The Atomic Fireballs

Torch This Place
(Lava/Atlantic)

Tom VandenAvond

Menace II sobriety

Dazzler

Tom Waits

Orphans
(Anti-)

Djentrification and Peso One

Kicking it on the coffee porch

Gabby La La

Be Careful What You Wish For
(Prawn Song Records)

Eels

Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
(Vagrant)

The Voodoo Organist

Close your eyes and it's still good

Top 10 selling CDs at Stinkweeds Records (12 West Camelback Road)

Chart-toppers for December 27 through January 2

The Youngs

The Youngs
(Web of Mimicry)

Tom Waits

Real Gone
(Epitaph)

A Good Buzz

Hopped up and hip: Coffee and Cigarettes brings the cool

Critics VS 2002: Rebuilding From Ash

2002 spent the year in a 9/11 hangover. Through the confusion, notable and amazing works still arose

Tom Waits

Alice/Blood Money (Anti)

Ed Harcourt

Here Be Monsters (Heavenly/Capitol)

Pretty Vacant

New Times' panel of critics searches for musical gems in a disheartening 2001

Best Place To Buy CDs

CDGB's

Sax Relief

Gumbo rewrites the tax code with the latest batch of jazz, blues and heritage releases

Blues Valentine

After nearly three decades, the fateful desert meeting between Tom Waits and John Hammond is fully realized with the release of Wicked Grin

Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom Waits

By Jay S. Jacobs (ECW Press)

Smooth Operators

Haikus and lows abound in this month's jazz and heritage releases

Pompousness and Circumstance

Gumbo gets smug as he samples some Coltrane, gets blue with Big Bill, does Duke with the Doc and feels some local Native American muse

Obsessions, Passions, Perversions

New Times music critics reveal their deepest, darkest record-buying secrets

Critical Mass

Even with impending Willennium looming, 1999 proved to be a banner year for music

Carry That Waits

Tom waits for no one, but the lowlife bard's new album is well worth the six-year wait

Copy Cats

In the tired realm of tribute albums, imitation is the sincerest form of flatulence

Say, What?

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