On October 4, 2004, a somewhat obscure album was released that Harp Magazine famously named as the best of the year in print, though evidence of this has been lost to time and the internet. And unless ...

Tom Waits' voice is all nitrogen oxide and volatile compounds spat from a tailpipe. His grimy cloud of musical smog, filled with industrial clanging and banging, is featured on his latest disc, "Real ...

Like drinking cheap whiskey, eating cigarette butts or putting large rocks in your ears, Tom Waits is at the apex of acquired-taste musicians. In fact, he's the acquired-taste musician of ...