Tom Waits

Can Scarlett Johansson sing? Can Scarlett Johansson sing?

On her debut album the velvety-voiced actress's dreamily erotic charms are not lost in translation.
By Stephanie Zacharek May 28, 2008

  • Daily Download: "You Can Never Hold Back Spring," Tom Waits

    Another from Tom Waits' seemingly inexhaustible supply of classic songs.
    October 25, 2006

  • Double down

    Tom Waits released two proper records in a decade. Then he dropped two crusted with rust and riotous cacophony in one day.
    By Franklin Bruno May 30, 2002

  • Jonathan Richman

    The rough and charming godfather of punk sings quietly now and makes us nostalgic for a time that never existed.
    By Chris Colin September 4, 2001

  • Tom Waits

    With his trademark throaty growl, he's a piano bar crooner and a Coney Island barker, singing songs of loneliness and desperation.
    By Anthony York May 8, 2001

  • Daily Download: "Road to Peace," Tom Waits

    Tom Waits weighs in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
    October 24, 2006

  • Daily Download: "Hold On," Tom Waits

    Free music from Tom Waits.
    April 8, 2005

  • Tom Waits picks his favorites

    20 most cherished albums with characteristically surreal commentary
    March 22, 2005

  • Amy Sedaris digs wigs and baking

    The star of "Strangers With Candy" likes "small woodland creatures" and wants to play Angie Dickinson as "Police Woman."
    By Rex Doane May 5, 2000

  • Sharps & Flats

    The vision of a Valkyrian dominatrix, Ute Lemper steps into a smoky cabaret with songs by Tom Waits, Kurt Weill, Nick Cave and Elvis Costello.
    By Michelle Goldberg April 14, 2000

  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, March 15, 2000
    By Joyce Millman March 15, 2000

  • Sharps & flats

    "Saturday Night Live" has 24 years of the best acts in rock 'n' roll on tape. Too bad none of that made it onto a new two-CD compilation.
    By Robert Wilonsky September 29, 1999

  • Uh, Miss?

    By playing a waitress in a video, Britney Spears tries to connect with a great rock tradition. Check, please.
    By Alex Pappademas September 17, 1999

  • "Big Time" redux

    Live in Los Angeles, Tom Waits pierces the heart of Saturday night.
    By Steve Kandell June 14, 1999

  • Ain't nothin' funny about a drunk

    Tom Waits brings it all home.
    By Alex Pappademas April 27, 1999

  • Chuck E. Weiss

    Sharps & Flats is a weekly music review roundup in Salon Magazine
    By Seth Mnookin March 2, 1999

  • "Is This Desire" -- or just bad performance art?

    In her first release in three years, Polly Jean Harvey offers sops to a self-consciously hip underground.
    By Bill Wyman September 30, 1998
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