Articles tagged "tom waits"

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Rosie & the Originals - “Angel Baby”

by Jennifer Cooke

[7.Oct.09] :. Tom Waits isn't the only Pride of National City

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The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus dir. Terry Gilliam (trailer)

by Matt Mazur

[10.Aug.09] :. This new Terry Gilliam film will surely get major play because it features the final performance of Heath Ledger, but that aside, the visual side of the movie looks mind-blowing. Add in Colin...

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Tom Waits - “Mule Variations” Video Collection (video)

by Sarah Zupko

[22.Apr.09] :. 10 years ago this week: Tom Waits returns with his first record since 1992 with the critically acclaimed album Mule Variations that quite impressively goes on to sell more than 500,000...

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Film DVD Review

Ironweed

by Matt Mazur

[26.Mar.09] :. Besting Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Paul Newman, Jason Robards and Sam Shepard, Jack Nicholson gives one of his most complicated, consuming performances.

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Column: Deconstruction Zone

Conversing with Rudy Wurlitzer: ‘A Beaten-up Old Scribbler’

by Rodger Jacobs

[6.Feb.09] :. My conversations with Rudy Wurlitzer were not unlike a road journey itself with plenty of unplanned side trips along the way.

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Unique Americana: Tom Waits and The Band

by Michael Edler

[28.Jan.09] :. Brutal. Even for a die hard Midwesterner like myself, January weather in Chicago has been brutal this year. So brutal that I find myself wrestling with the winds and bitters of Chicago sidewalks to...

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Swordfishtrombones (33 1/3) by David Smay

by Matthew Fiander

[19.Feb.08] :. Rather than trying to explain the album as a whole, Smay roots through the details to find dubious truths about the man, not the artist.

 

Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List

by Bill Gibron

[24.Jan.08] :. A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away.

 

Various Artists: Healing the Divide

by Matthew Fiander

[11.Jul.07] :. This disc of performances by Tom Waits, Philip Glass, the Dalai Lama, and others for the Tibetan Health Initiative is an admirable but curious release.

 

Sarah Borges: Diamonds in the Dark

by Michael Keefe

[9.Jul.07] :. With her compelling sophomore album, this catchy, rock-country singer-songwriter shows why she should be a star.

 
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Music Review

Tom Waits: Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards

by Jeff Vrabel

[6.Dec.06] :. If you hear the phrases, 'The female praying mantis devours the male while they are mating. The male sometimes continues copulating even after the female has bitten off his head, and part of his upper torso,' you are listening to a Bastard.

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The always-eccentric Tom Waits hopes you’ll adopt his ‘Orphans’

by Evelyn McDonnell [The Miami Herald]

[17.Nov.06] :. About halfway through an hour-long conversation on phone lines that occasionally crack and fizzle as if they are being gnawed, the talk turns to moles. “In the mole community, they honor and...

 

Tom Waits

by Andrew Gilstrap

[1.Aug.06] :. We're all as mad as hatters here...

 

Short Cuts (1993)

by Daniel Mudie Cunningham

[14.Apr.05] :. Death, or that state 'beyond natural color', is Short Cuts' common denominator.

 

Tom Waits: Real Gone

by Zeth Lundy

[5.Oct.04] :. Now that we can all safely distance ourselves from audience participation fluffernutters like “Achy Breaky Heart” and the Macarena, it’s time we all grew up and learned a new dance....

 

Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Sep.04] :. Coffee and Cigarettes is a return, of sorts, for Jim Jarmusch.

 

Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.May.04] :. Coffee and Cigarettes is a return, of sorts, for Jim Jarmusch.

 

Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)

by Jesse Hassenger

[13.May.04] :. On its own terms, Coffee and Cigarettes is an effective addiction movie, self-indulgent but also familiar and low-key.

 

Tom Waits: Alice / Blood Money

by Andrew Clark

[28.Jun.02] :. Arguably the only living legend for whom all four cylinders are still firing, Waits’ career stretches back to 1973’s Closing Time, an album of after-hours laments and jazz-tinged...