The Frames

"...pre-eminent boutique label, home to Solomon Burke, Marianne Faithfull, Tom Waits, Neko Case, and Nick Cave, Anti- scores another..."

March 18, 2005 Music Review by David Lynch

Spotlight: Daniel Johnston

1am, Maggie Mae's

"...served as both tribute and best-of. Acts such as Tom Waits, Beck, Bright Eyes, and Death Cab for Cutie..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Not Fade Away

The 2004 / 05 Austin Music Awards. In a word, roots.

"...– Discovered Covered, featuring, oh, Bright Eyes, Beck, and Tom Waits covering Johnston's songs of pain and more pain,..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

I Live My Broken Dreams

This year's rock docs examine the 'outsider myth' and more among the likes of Daniel Johnston, Townes Van Zandt, and Wild Man Fischer

"...writing songs (he's been covered by Beck, Pearl Jam, Tom Waits, and Wilco, among many others), painting and drawing,..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

The Enron Autopsy

Alex Gibney on The Smartest Guys in the Room'

"...found footage, reenactments, extreme sports clips, creepy swing jazz, Tom Waits, Peter Coyote narration, and convoluted but indisputable facts..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Page Two

SXSW 2005 looms on the horizon

"...album that came out last year featuring Bright Eyes, Tom Waits, Vic Chesnutt, Sparklehorse with the Flaming Lips, Mercury..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Bukowski: Born Into This

Every young writer goes through a Bukowski phase, but only the skid row author himself was "born into it."

"...Celebrity fans are on hand – Sean Penn, Bono, Tom Waits, Harry Dean Stanton (himself a walking, talking Bukowski..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

TCB

Going Braless in city of Small Stars and smashed guitars

"...louche vision to life. Selections may include anything from Tom Waits' "Jockey Full of Bourbon" to the Ides of..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Into the Heart

U2 drops the 'Atomic Bomb'

"...Instead, they've released another album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb...."

Nov. 26, 2004 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Willie Nelson

Texas platters

"...in a Frame," a gorgeously spare ballad written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Much of Always echoes the..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Short Cuts

A butcher, a baker, a police officer, a newscaster, a phone-sex-operator mom, a dead-beat dad, and a cheat. Ray Carver and a confused audience. A Best Director nomination for Robert Altman.

"...else can you see Alex Trebeck, Huey Lewis, and Tom Waits intersecting in one film? Where else do you..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Screens Review by Courtney Fitzgerald

Matt the Electrician

"...Electrician live would expect his recorded material to be Tom Waits-influenced affairs, but Long Way Home is more Grant..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

The Ballad of Joe Hill

Get up, stand up – stand up for your rights

"...standout is Will Sexton's "Whittled by the Wind, a Tom Waits-styled cabaret weeper that allows its composer unexpected emotional..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The Late Great Daniel Johnston

Texas platters

"...of the original and the band's own loop-addled tension. Tom Waits fully embodies "King Kong," bellowing over breathy beat..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Music Review by Greg Beets

Hot Fun in the Summertime

Austin City Limits Music Festival 2004 wrap-up

"...Up On Me, including a deliciously smooth take on Tom Waits' "Diamond in Your Mind." Near the set's conclusion,..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

ACL Fest Interviews

"...with everyone from Solomon Burke and George Clinton to Tom Waits, which has helped the group gain a foothold..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

ACL Fest Interviews

"...be her first for Anti-, whose label roster includes Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Merle Haggard, and Joe Henry...."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

ACL Fest Interviews

"...Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and Van Morrison might have some..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Will Johnson

Record review

"...to drink themselves stupid. Johnson kicks things off channeling Tom Waits on the simple, spare "Catherine Dupree." It's just..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Looking Out My Back Door

Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of 'Austin City Limits' with 13,000 words. In pictures.

"...From Tom Waits in 1979 and Roy Orbison in 1983 to..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Coffee and Cigarettes

Jim Jarmusch's new brew is lukewarm.

"...Wright, Joie Lee, Cinqué Lee, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Joe Rigano, Vinny Vella, Vinny Vella Jr., Renee..."

July 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shrek 2

Shrek reloaded: DreamWorks discovers that it's easy being green.

"...to their beloved swamp (where Murphy’s endlessly annoying Donkey awaits, braying from boredom) to discover they’ve been invited to..."

May 21, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

TCB

Austin City Limits, cannonized!

"...Gammon Records' imminent Johnston tribute album with Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Beck, and a bunch of bands he doesn't..."

April 23, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Modest Mouse

Record Review

"...Dozen Brass Band, takes an entire chapter out of Tom Waits' book, sonically, and is narrated by a misanthrope..."

April 16, 2004 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

Kirk Van Praag

Record Review

"...violinists and played on a baby grand. Equal parts Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Randy Newman, Van Praag aptly..."

April 9, 2004 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...sense. He was always a roots-rocker, right? Bass player Tom Freund joins GP, whose latest trip, the Americana-flavored Your..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...a dramatic blend of arena rock, punk, and glam custom-made for sullen youths kicking beer bottles down the railroad..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...British singer-songwriter "the genuine heiress to the Bob Dylan-Leonard Cohen-Tom Waits legacy of dark, brilliant indie folk-rock." Somewhere between..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Mastering Engineers Talk Shop

Ballroom Dancing: Music Panels

"...about this little-known world. Masterdisk's Howie Weinberg (U2, Nirvana, Tom Waits) moderated Austin's Jim Wilson (Richard Thompson, Flatlanders, Bob..."

March 19, 2004 Music Review by David Lynch

The Walkmen

"..."Little House of Savages," machine-gun drumming battling droning guitars. Tom Waits informs the hopeless "Hang on, Siobhan," while John..."

March 5, 2004 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

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