Plaintive, scruffy, and just plain perfect. “I love you like the stars above, I’ll love you till I die.” 2) I Never Talk to Strangers – by Tom Waits. “Stop me if you’ve heard this one…” does anybody else knock down a great lyric like this guy? Toss in...

Second album El Olvido has just been released to rave reviews. Produced by Joel Hamilton, who's worked with Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and Talib Kweli, the album puts Watussi (pictured) in the big leagues. To celebrate, they're funking up and down the...

Then they brought in a drummer and horn players. "I knew the guy who played clarinet and sax with Tom Waits, so I called him up," he says. "We just had a great time doing it. I had no intention of releasing this as a record. It just jumped out of...

“In the Eye of the Sun” begins like a mutant cousin of “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” filtered through Tom Waits’s “Big in Japan”. For a moment, it seems the bad news from Paris was just a hoax. Manzarek’s electric piano, John Densmore’s sure beat,...

Over the years, soundtracks for films such as Requiem for a Dream and Heat have punctuated the group's catalog, as have collaborations with a vast repertoire of artists ranging from Allen Ginsberg, David Bowie, Björk, Tom Waits, and a close working...

Epworth said Adele's initial reticence to work with him was overstated. "I know full well she liked a bunch of records that i did 10 years ago, so our tastes are more similar than maybe she realized," he said. "We sat in a room and talked about Dr....