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Lately the overarching narrative with respect to Peter Gabriel's been his dialogue with other artists, be it musically or literally. This cover has nothing to do with Scratch My Back, the set of…   Read Story »
Andrew Bird covering "Shake It And Break It" must have brought back Squirrel Nut Zippers memories. Listen to it an 18 more Dixieland covers here. Nice Tom Waits impression, Louis Armstrong.   Read Story »
For the price of an email address at tomwaits.com you can hear the first eight songs from the 17-track collection documenting Waits' 2008 tour. But you'll need to buy the album to get the second CD…   Read Story »
Heath Ledger's final film is also directed by Terry Gilliam and also stars Tom Waits as the devil and also has a trailer that gives you absolutely no idea what it's going to be about. But it looks…   Read Story »
In addition to covers and DJ projects, Beck's updated website houses "Irrelevant Topics," a section featuring "conversations between musicians, artists, writers ... without promotional pretext or…   Read Story »
Twitter users were outraged last week when the service shut down @CWalken, a popular but totally fake celebrity account. Indeed it's way too easy to be duped by fake profiles. (So easy!) Not that…   Read Story »
We told you Paul Westerberg's 44-minute 49:00 was available at for 49 cents -- was because looks like you can't buy it anymore. If you don't mind inflation, though, there's the two-song 3oclockreep…   Read Story »
Zooey's winning the battle of the singing actresses, but while Scarlett doesn't have strong a voice, she does look a little more comfortable fronting her extensive, shape-shifting backing band. A…   Read Story »
Lately we've seen and heard Scarlett singing Tom Waits more than Tom singing Tom Waits, so it was exciting to witness the man opening his own mouth in this press conference for his summer Glitter And…   Read Story »
The first single from Tom Waits tribute Anywhere I Lay My Head is the the least bad. It's got David Bowie. And now, a proper music video in which we live a day in the life of The Sexiest Woman Alive,…   Read Story »