“No, thanks” might not have been the exact words executives at Elektra/Asylum, Tom Waits’ original label, communicated to their “prestige” artist when declining to release Swordfishtrombones (1983) ...

Tom Waits already made Uproxx‘s “Best Vinyl Releases Of March 2023” list, but the storied singer-songwriter wants more. On Wednesday, July 12, it was announced that five albums he released via Island ...

The speakers pop as I gently lay the needle on the groove. A static hiss, a crack from an almost invisible amount of dust and the music begins to waft. I lay down, lights out, to listen and be ...

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Excerpted from “Tom Waits’ Swordfishtrombones” by David Smay (Continuum, 2007). Reprinted with permission from Bloomsbury Publishing. In an otherwise favorable review, Robert Christgau accused Tom’s ...