To mark the 25th anniversary of both Tom Waits’ Mule Variations and the record label Anti, an unreleased “Spiritual” rendition of the standout “Get Behind the Mule” has been unearthed ...

Tom Waits’ 1973 debut album ... “Little Trip to Heaven (On The Wings Of Your Love)” is a sweeping jazz-tinted lullaby. Romantic horns make love to enrapturing keys for one of the release ...

The best Tom Waits songs play like cult midnight movies, full of wild scenes and strange characters. “Goin’ Out West”, for example, spins the tale of a rough-beast wannabe who’s come to ...

Or perhaps big sweeping voices with brilliant ... Sometimes, it would seem Tom Waits was more of a vaudevillian than he was a classic frontman. With a voice that sounds like a gravel driveway ...

In 1999, scraggly-voiced junkyard wizard Tom Waits released Mule Variations, his first album in six years. The big punk label Epitaph started its offshoot imprint Anti- specifically to release ...

Tom Waits marks the upcoming 20th-anniversary reissues for his Alice and Blood Money by unearthing a pair of unreleased performances of songs from those 2002 LPs. The flamenco-flavored spin on ...