Waits Tom

I had the good fortune to interview Jim Jarmusch recently for our An Audience With… feature. As you’d imagine, it was interesting, wide-ranging chat, and inevitably not everything we talked about made it into the magazine. There’s a couple of things in particular that seemed pretty interesting – not least the ‘full’ answer he gave to a question regarding the current status of The Sons Of Lee Marvin, a shadowy cabal whose members – allegedly – include Jarmusch, Tom Waits, Nick Cave and Iggy Pop.

We're delighted to reveal our latest exclusive hand-picked collection of iconic music photography: Uncut's Sonic Editions. The new 2014 collection contains 25 iconic images curated by editor Allan Jones. Including The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Ryan Adams, The Smiths, Bryan Ferry, Johnny Cash, Bob Marley, Debbie Harry and Tom Waits. Each image is available as a limited edition print, individually numbered, hand printed and framed to order, from £45/$75 unframed up to £75/$119 framed.

Tom Waits played his first live show in five years on Sunday [October 27] at Neil Young's Bridge School benefit concert. Scroll down to watch fan footage of the entire 10 song set. Waits was accompanied by David Hidalgo on guitar and accordion, Les Claypool on bass and Casey Waits on drums. Waits has played the Bridge School Benefit concerts twice before, first in 1999 and then in 2007, when he performed with the Kronos Quartet.

Tom Waits has announced he will be playing at this year's Bridge School Benefit. Waits announced the news via his Facebook and Twitter - accounts on Saturday, September 21. He Tweeted the following message: "ALERT! Tom will perform a full acoustic set feat songs from BAD AS ME for the upcoming Bridge School Benefit." On Facebook, a longer statement read:

First of all this week, let me quickly plug our most recent Ultimate Music Guide, which is dedicated to Depeche Mode. As with previous specials in the Ultimate Music Guide series on David Bowie, the Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul Weller, The Clash, Nick Cave, The Kinks, U2, REM and The Smiths – all of which you can order online at www.uncut.co.uk/store or order digitally at www.uncut.co.uk/download – Depeche Mode – The Ultimate Music Guide features brand new reviews of all Depeche’s albums, written by a stellar team of Uncut scribes, plus a ton of vintage interviews from the archives of Melody Maker and NME, reprinted for the first time in years and covering the whole of the band’s career from their first stirrings in deepest Basildon in the early 80s. Depeche Mode – The Ultimate Music Guide is on sale now.

Tom Waits joined The Rolling Stones live onstage on Sunday (May 5) to sing "Little Red Rooster" – you can watch fan-shot footage of the moment below. Waits joined The Rolling Stones on stage at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California. "Little Red Rooster" was originally performed by Howlin' Wolf but Sam Cooke and The Doors have also recorded their own versions; the Stones released a version in 1964.

Tom Waits is staring back at me from the cover of the new Uncut, which goes on sale this Thursday, January 31. It’s a picture of the young Tom that I’m looking at, long before he ended up with a face that now makes you think a tractor tyre must recently have run over it, a corrugated look he shares with his friend, Keith Richards. He is in fact startlingly young in the picture, even though it would seem he hasn’t shaved for a week and for just as long has been sleeping in the clothes he’s wearing.

The story of Tom Waits’ early life and the making of his stunning debut album, Closing Time, is examined in the new issue of Uncut, out on January 31.

Tom Waits and Anton Corbijn have announced that they will be joining forces on a new photographic book. Titled '77-'11, it will feature over 200 pages of portraits of Waits taken by photographer-turned-film director Corbijn. It will also include over 50 pages of photographs and musings by Waits himself and will feature an introduction from director Jim Jarmusch. The book will document the artistic relationship between the pair, which started in 1977 when Corbijn first photographed Waits in Holland.