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ScarJo's Tribute To Tom Waits Is Actually Dave Sitek's Tribute To Ivo Watts-Russell
ARTIST: Scarlett JohanssonALBUM: Anywhere I Lay My Head
RELEASE DATE: May 20, 2008
WEB DEBUT: April 30, 2008 More »
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Tom Waits For No Man In The Northeast, Alas
Tom Waits has announced the dates for his upcoming summer tour, which will head across the country from June 17 to July 5. Rolling Stone claims that Waits' tour route is supposed to mirror the constellation Hydra,but an explanation that probably won't completely placate those Waits fans in New York, Chicago, and LA who are getting shut out of dates on this go-round. Click on Waits' picture for the full list of dates.
leak of the day
ARTIST: Scarlett Johansson
ALBUM: Anywhere I Lay My Head
RELEASE DATE: May 20, 2008
WEB DEBUT: April 30, 2008 More »
ARTIST: Scarlett JohanssonALBUM: Anywhere I Lay My Head
RELEASE DATE: May 20, 2008
WEB DEBUT: April 30, 2008 More »
Start your melodramatic Friday night boozing a little early with the entirety of a career-spanning show by Tom Waits, recorded in New York in 1999. In fact, it ranges so widely across Waits' output that it's got to be split into two parts. [Captains Dead]
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The IdoLawyer Has A Few Words For All You Sha-Na-Na Impersonators Out There
Editor's note: Aside from a few Clash lyrics, your Idolators know nothing about the law. Which is why we're proud to present another missive from the IdoLawyer, an anonymous California attorney who will be weighing in on various music-related matters. While her column isn't intended as legal advice, it is sage advice nonetheless, and today she takes a look at new litigation that attempts to silence musical impersonators:
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tom waits
- "With distorted guitars and loose-limbed drumming behind the wheeze and cackle of Mr. Waits's voice, Brawlers collects rocking tall tales that contemplate love, sin and the road, and it could stand alongside Mr. Waits' best albums. Most of the songs are blues, a few tuck romance behind the clatter, and one, 'Road to Peace,' is as journalistically detailed and bluntly political as anything in the Waits catalog." [NY Times]
- "[Tom Waits has] become this caricature of himself, and it was a cartoon character to begin with...it's rehashed Captain Beefhart, fractured blues, [and] art-rock with him doing this boho, silly, 'I'm this weird eccentric, dangerous dirty-old-man' character. This is way more Tom Waits than I ever want to get in my lifetime." [Sound Opinions, take one]
- "The way he uses his voice on this record is really remarkable. I think he's creating a different character for almost each song on this record...it's not only is a summary of his career, I think it's one of the best things he's done in the last 20 years." [Sound Opinions, take two]
- "[Waits]long ago earned the status of perennially lauded/critically invulnerable artists alongside Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. At this point, the only thing left open to debate is, to paraphrase Stephen Colbert, Tom Waits: a great songwriter, or the greatest songwriter?" [Pitchfork]
- "Grizzle grabble fuzzy jailhouse burga burga woo grizzle fishpan whiskey." [Tom Waits on Tom Waits]
Idolator Record-Review Round-Up: Tom Waits Just As Divisively Growly As Ever
- "With distorted guitars and loose-limbed drumming behind the wheeze and cackle of Mr. Waits's voice, Brawlers collects rocking tall tales that contemplate love, sin and the road, and it could stand alongside Mr. Waits' best albums. Most of the songs are blues, a few tuck romance behind the clatter, and one, 'Road to Peace,' is as journalistically detailed and bluntly political as anything in the Waits catalog." [NY Times]- "[Tom Waits has] become this caricature of himself, and it was a cartoon character to begin with...it's rehashed Captain Beefhart, fractured blues, [and] art-rock with him doing this boho, silly, 'I'm this weird eccentric, dangerous dirty-old-man' character. This is way more Tom Waits than I ever want to get in my lifetime." [Sound Opinions, take one]
- "The way he uses his voice on this record is really remarkable. I think he's creating a different character for almost each song on this record...it's not only is a summary of his career, I think it's one of the best things he's done in the last 20 years." [Sound Opinions, take two]
- "[Waits]long ago earned the status of perennially lauded/critically invulnerable artists alongside Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. At this point, the only thing left open to debate is, to paraphrase Stephen Colbert, Tom Waits: a great songwriter, or the greatest songwriter?" [Pitchfork]
- "Grizzle grabble fuzzy jailhouse burga burga woo grizzle fishpan whiskey." [Tom Waits on Tom Waits]
liner notes
-Rod Stewart's Still The Same will likely debut in the top slot on this week's album charts, which can only be good news for big-haired Hot Rod impersonators everywhere. [Hits Daily Double]
-Scarlett Johansson is recording an album of Tom Waits covers. Sadly, no pictures of Johansson could be found on the Internet to illustrate this story. [Fox411]
-Radiohead have begun work on their seventh studio album, Can We Maybe Try To Get Into The Studio Next To That Johansson Bird? [NME]
Liner Notes: Does This Look Like A Guy With The No. 1 Album In The Country?
-Rod Stewart's Still The Same will likely debut in the top slot on this week's album charts, which can only be good news for big-haired Hot Rod impersonators everywhere. [Hits Daily Double]-Scarlett Johansson is recording an album of Tom Waits covers. Sadly, no pictures of Johansson could be found on the Internet to illustrate this story. [Fox411]
-Radiohead have begun work on their seventh studio album, Can We Maybe Try To Get Into The Studio Next To That Johansson Bird? [NME]