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Nighthawks At The Diner 50th Anniversary Reissue Available to Pre-Order on @antirecords.

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John C. Reilly shares his love for Tom Waits in Down By Law (1986) during his Criterion Closet interview.

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Evoking a haunting, otherworldly cabaret of fado and cumbias, there’s a feeling the songs from Blood Money are trying to reach you from another time or dimension.

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"A good man is hard to find
Only strangers sleep in my bed
My favorite words are good-bye And my favorite color is red"

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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.

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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.

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finding a singular new balance between experimental sound and his innate lyricism and humanity.

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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 -

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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.

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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.

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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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It marks Massive Attack's first new music since 2020 and Waits’s first new recording since the 2011 album, Bad As Me.

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04.16 Tom Waits x Massive Attack

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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.

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“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."

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Tom Waits is on the cover of Uncut Magazine’s May issue, on stands Friday and available to order now: https://t.co/eJqKF658G2