In case you're just joining this column, I have been a Tom Waits enthusiast since a college friend turned me on to the double live "Nighthawks at the Diner" in 1975. There is a new unauthorized ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Author Barney Hoskyns didn’t get to talk to the notoriously private Tom ...

It's never a surprise when an artist feels he's been screwed by dirty accounting from managers and studios. But apparently preserving one's reputation as an honest manager still counts. By Eriq ...

Legend has it that, during the mid-'70s, while living in a dilapidated room inside Los Angeles' seedy Tropicana Motel, Tom Waits entertained a journalist who, upon looking inside the musician's fridge ...

Barney Hoskyns new book, 'Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits' is an 'unauthorized biography,' but I don't have a problem with that. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also ...