Steve Vai Wants To Cast Tom Waits & Pink In Movie Version Of His New LP
Steve Vai is currently on tour for his new record, The Story Of Light, a concept album with a long cast of characters. In a recent interview, Vai told CBS Local that he was “casting” the album even as...
View ArticleBruce Springsteen Nabs Three GRAMMY Nominations; “Springsteen” Gets Two More
Bruce Springsteen nabbed three GRAMMY nominations Wednesday night, and the song that bears his name got two more. Bruce’s “We Take Care Of Our Own,” which opens his latest album, Wrecking Ball, was...
View ArticleThe Rolling Stones’ Guest Stars On ’50 & Counting’ Tour: A Fight To The Death
The Rolling Stones’ 50 & Counting Tour recently spent few weeks as the current highest-grossing U.S. tour, earning just under $8.5 million. Though the average ticket will set you back $340 (roughly...
View ArticleThe Music of ‘Walking Dead’: Music Supervisor Thomas Golubic’s Favorite Moments
Over the course of nearly four full seasons, ‘Walking Dead’ has used a wide range of music from artists that span nearly every genre and era including Bob Dylan, Motörhead, Wang Chung and Tom Waits,...
View ArticleBeatles Have A Bass Player Die And One Quits, And Jim Morrison Wants To Show...
The Beatles bass player died in Hamburg today in 1962. Not that one, as everyone knows, he died in a car crash in ’66 and was replaced with a lookalike who somehow could sing, write songs, and play...
View ArticleTom Waits Performs New Song ‘Take One Last Look’ on ‘Letterman’
By Jeremy D. Larson As we all steel ourselves for the final episodes of Late Night with David Letterman, Tom Waits makes it even more difficult with his touching, bittersweet new song “Take One Last...
View Article26 Delicious Songs You Can Bring on a Picnic, from A to Z
By Shannon Carlin If you’re going on a picnic, we have a list of some rather tasty songs you should bring with you. Keeping in mind the rules to the classic children’s game “I’m Going to the Picnic,”...
View ArticleTom Waits Writes a Poem about Keith Richards
by Phil Cosores The mutual respect and admiration between Keith Richards and Tom Waits has never been a secret, with the pair working together on a number of Waits recordings. As Rolling Stone points...
View ArticleBefore There Was An Apple Store There Was An Apple Shop, And Carl Cashes In...
Scores of British Beatles fans probably had a good idea what the square flat presents wrapped under the Christmas tree were, their second album With The Beatles, which started a 21 week run at #1 on...
View ArticleJoan Baez, Tom Waits Praise ‘Immortal’ Bob Dylan for Nobel Prize Win
By Hayden Wright Yesterday, Bob Dylan’s receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature triggered fervid debate in the literary community but provoked some full-throated praise from his peers in music. Joan...
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