Regarded by many as one of the finest songwriters in the American canon, and a distinctive urban storyteller beyond compare, Tom Waits has long been hailed for his chronicles of the dispossessed, and ...

I was eight years old when I experienced my first Tom Waits song. It was like nothing I’d ever heard before. Granted, at the age of eight, that wasn’t saying a lot, but the statement continues to ...

Oregon men’s basketball (8-16, 1-12 Big Ten) just can’t catch a break. The Ducks set themselves up with a fantastic chance to snap their... Over the course of the past 30 years, singer/songwriter Tom ...

Rain Dogs is forty years old today. I won’t get into all of it, because there is simply too much to get into, but I am thinking most about what we encounter at the record’s 46-minute mark: a song ...