I was eight years old when I experienced my first Tom Waits song. It was like nothing I’d ever heard before. Granted, at the age of eight, that wasn’t saying a lot, but the statement continues to ...

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 ...

Tom Waits hasn't made a full studio album, if you can call what Waits does when recording new work something done in a "studio," since 2011. Until this week, he hadn't created a new single since 2018, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. Today, December 7, is Tom Waits’ seventy-fifth birthday. What better way to honor ...