Waits Tom

Stipe and co’s major label years, now repackaged with bonus DVD-audio discs and making-of documentaries

Star-studded double dose of live and studio work from country's original outlaw

After last year's disappointing Never Go Home, Brian Krumm's Illinois quartet seem to have rediscovered the last-gang-in-town swagger that made 2000's Damaged Goods such a riot. Guitars cranked up to 11, it's bulging roadhouse rock, with the added croak of Krumm's phlegmy Tom Waits-isms. But there's a leanness about these loser-through-a-shot-glass songs that suggests they've matured too, not least on the latter-day gunslinger ballad "November" and in the neon-splashed moodiness of "St Christopher Street".

All thirty tracks from Uncut Take 92. Tracks that inspired and tracks inspired by Bob Dylan.

Coppola's love-in-Las Vegas musical fantasy is ripe for reappraisal

Since it's hard—and possibly verboten—to say a bad word about Tom Waits, unholy shaman of whacked-out Americana, I'll content myself with expressing a few mild reservations. From the startling departure of Swordfishtrombones—over 20 years old now—Tom's every subsequent move has been worth following with avid fascination. But with 2002's simultaneously released Alice and Blood Money, it seemed he was veering off into wilfully art-wank Hal Willner territory.

Mystery Train director serves up series of caffeine-aided celebrity shorts

Elvis has flattened the building...

Young Sussex-born singer-songwriter steps up to the next level with best live show to date

Mink DeVille man takes a walk on New Orleans' wild side