Tom Waits re-interprets “Summer of Siam” by The Pogues for the upcoming Shane MacGowan tribute album ‘20th Century Paddy - The Songs of Shane MacGowan’ arriving 11/13/2026.
This landmark collection is a sonic love letter to a visionary who reshaped the landscape of Irish music.
Born from collaborations with Robert Wilson and released on the same day in 2002, Alice and Blood Money are two sides of the same coin. Alice is a dive into the rapture of the deep; and Blood Money is a front-row seat at the dark, human carnival of life.
October 1983: Waits performs “I Beg Your Pardon,” “I Wish I Was in New Orleans,” and “Frank’s Wild Years” at the piano for Channel 4’s Loose Talk.
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This performance captures a pivot point in Waits’s career. Moving beyond his traditional Tin Pan Alley roots, he began infusing his ballads with a grit and theatricality that leaned toward the avant-garde -
Waits and Brennan are donating proceeds from the vinyl sales to local organizations funding essential mental health resources for veterans and vital legal advocacy for immigrant communities; NAMI and VIDAS.
Catch “The Fly,” the exclusive Waits B-side to Boots On The Ground, Waits’ collaboration with Massive Attack featuring Waits’s trademark droll and sardonic spoken word.
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The song is available today on streaming platforms, and will be followed by a 12" vinyl release. The 12” edition features "Boots on the Ground" on Side A, with an exclusively Waits B-side titled "The Fly” - a track featuring Waits’s trademark droll and sardonic spoken word.
Today Massive Attack is sharing their collaboration with Tom Waits, "Boots on the Ground."
The song chronicles the madness and rabid abandonment of mankind to the commands of "The Masters of War” as Dylan put it.
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Brad Bird, iconic writer & animator of Ratatouille and The Incredibles returns with his take on the classic gumshoe noir, setting the story in a futuristic world populated with aliens, murder & a multimedia femme fatale, starring Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson & Tom Waits.
“Songs come from the past and the future. You put the word ‘past’ together with the word ‘future’ you get the word ‘pasture’. Which is the origin of most songs. You know? They all come out of that meadow."
This collection honours not only the extraordinary versatility of Waits and Brennan’s songwriting, but the importance of an artist who continues to haunt and inspire from the edges inward.
Announcing ‘Where The Willow and The Dogwood Grow’ a compilation of recordings from Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan’s matchless catalogue, out May 29 on Ace Records: https://t.co/nCtRQ3AU9H
With his long-time creative partner and wife Kathleen Brennan, he has dismantled and reassembled the idea of song itself, crafting works that exist as both raw expression and high art.