Tom Waits – Nighthawks At The Diner (Remastered) Recorded in front of a live audience at the Record Plant recording studio in Los Angeles in 1975, Nighthawks at the Diner debuts some of Waits greatest classics like Warm Beer, Cold Women and Eggs and Sausage with a crack Jazz ensemble backing him up and some…
Noted as Tom Waits’ most critically acclaimed album, Rain Dogs follows the new musical path Waits had taken with Swordfishtrombones. Considered the middle of a de facto trilogy with Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years, Rain Dogs is the first of Waits’ albums to be written in New York, in a Lower Manhattan basement. A 53-minute,…
Newly Remixed by Karl Derfler and Remastered with Tom Waits Kathleen Brennan With 2004 s Real Gone, Tom Waits off-road adventures are taken into the further beyond. Mixing and mashing: worlds both sonic and ethnic, musical traditions both new and old, and rhythms both mouth-made and sampled from his own instruments, Waits reached a new pinnacle here….
After signing with Asylum Records in the early 1970s, Tom Waits recorded a series of acclaimed albums whose noir tales about the after-midnight underworld transformed the seedy into the sublime in songs laced with both dark humor and profound longing. Decades and several musical evolutions later, Waits Asylum years still hold a special place in…
2023 Marks forty years since Tom Waits released Swordfishtrombones, ushering in a new and critically acclaimed musical era for Waits and his longtime songwriting and production partner, Brennan. Waits went from ‘70’s-era “bluesy, boozy” wordsmith and melodist with seven albums behind him to sound sculptor, miner of the subconscious, abstract orchestrator, sonic cubist—while retaining his…
Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones On 180g Vinyl LP Special Edition Vinyl Reissue from the Island Records Vault! Though Tom Waits had spent most of the 70s establishing himself as one of America s most distinctive singer-songwriters, Swordfishtrombones found him reinventing himself and creating one of the most original sounds in popular music. Leaving behind his Kerouac-influenced lyrics and lounge-lizard piano-bar stylings for…
2023 Marks 30 years since Tom Waits released The Black Rider. Originally released in 1993 on Island Records, The Black Rider is Tom Waits’ 12th studio album. The Black Rider is a musical comedy horror collaboration between artists: Robert Wilson (director designer) writer Beat guru, William S. Burroughs (text) and Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan…
2013 s Oddfellows served as the fourth album and first in six years from rock super group Tomahawk, comprised of Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Peeping Tom, Mondo Cane, Lovage), Duane Denison (The Jesus Lizard, USSR), John Stanier (Helmet, Battles, Mark of Cain) and new bassist Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, John Zorn, Melvins…
Self-titled 2000 debut album from the rock-n-roll super group Tomahawk, comprised of vocalist Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Peeping Tom, Mondo Cane, Lovage), guitarist Duane Denison (The Jesus Lizard, USSR), bassist Kevin Rutmanis (Melvins) and drummer John Stanier (Helmet, Battles, Mark of Cain). You couldn t ask for a better pedigree, the…
Tomahawk show up just when we need them. Now, a lot has changed since we first met them. Hell, a lot has changed since the last time we heard from them seven years ago! It doesn t matter though, because they ve crept back just when things got really weird, and they re ready to…
After releasing three albums in three years and then spending the next four in the wilderness, Tomb Mold has been reborn on fourth album The Enduring Spirit, a thoroughly unabashed step into vast new territories. Yet for all it s frenetic daring and audacious exploration, it is never anything other than unmistakably Tomb Mold. While…
After releasing three albums in three years and then spending the next four in the wilderness, Tomb Mold has been reborn on fourth album The Enduring Spirit, a thoroughly unabashed step into vast new territories. Yet for all it s frenetic daring and audacious exploration, it is never anything other than unmistakably Tomb Mold. While…
2019 repress; remastered on 180 gram vinyl, expanded to double-LP, gatefold sleeve. One cannot hear a Tommy Guerrero song without immediately recognizing it as his — and his only. The cult skater from San Francisco is globally renowned as one of the original members of the legendary Bones Brigade team. And as an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, his laid-back…
***Tongue Depressor (New Haven, CT) is the duo of Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey. They write, improvise, and perform drone-based music with fiddles, pedal steel, lap steel, contrabass, organ, and bells, usually involving microtonal tunings and re-arranged re-tuned fragments of American church music. In another time, Tongue DepressorÕs ethereal tunings set into motion an unstable…