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Free Music Roundup | 11.25.2009

It's Thanksgiving, don't waste your time hunting for free music on the web, we did it for you. :: Be

New Music Tuesday | 11.24.2009

Here's what is new in stores this week. :: Andrea Bocelli My Christmas Philips :: Birdman Pricele$$

Tom Waits: "Glitter and Doom Live" (album review)

I don't know about you, but ever since I was a teenager I've been keeping a list of musicians that I

New Album Releases For Tuesday 11/24/2009

As the year winds down, the number of artists releasing each week dwindles as well. Many musicians

New releases for Nov 24th: Tom Waits, Fever Ray

Here's a look at what's new and hot in music this week: Fever Ray- Review Jawbox (reissue) Los Strai

Biography Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an America singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including Down By Law, The Fisher King, Coffee & Cigarettes, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Short Cuts. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart. Lyrically, Waits's songs frequently present atmospheric portrayals of grotesq