Tri-fold sleeve includes a 4-page insert. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers famously played 20 nights at the legendary Fillmore venue in San Francisco in 1997. 6 of the shows were professionally recorded and this release features some of the high points of the residency. The small venue allowed the band to vary their sets each…
First Career-Spanning Tom Petty Retrospective Features 38 Recordings Including 2 Previously Unreleased Tracks, All Remastered From Pristine Transfers Of the Original Studio Multi-Track Masters The Best Of Everything is the first career-spanning collection of all of Tom Petty s hits with The Heartbreakers, his solo work and Mudcrutch. The 38-track set also features two previously unreleased tracks: the poignant and autobiographical…
Tom Petty And the Heartbreakers, the Last DJ follo ws their 2002 induction into the Rock and Roll Hal l of Fame, and marks the lastest chapter in the nevr-ending story one of rock s greatest bands.
What makes Mojo special is that it was recorded live in the band’s legendary rehearsal space, ”The Clubhouse” in Los Angeles. There are no over-dubs or studio trickery. What you hear is what Tom and the Heartbreakers created live at that time. In 2010, Tom Petty said, “With this album, I want to show other people what…
Originally released in 1981, Genuis of Love is the Tom Tom Club s timeless classic track that s been sampled by such artists as Mariah Carey, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, 2 Pac, Public Enemy, Busta Rhymes, Redman, Ice Cube and most recently, Latto. The song was written and performed by Talking Heads founders…
The Talking Heads spawned a number of worthy side projects and spinoffs—David Byrne & Brian Eno’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Jerry Harrison’s The Red and the Black—but none were as funky, danceable, and flat-out fun as Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth’s Tom Tom Club. Conceived as something of a larkish break from…
With 12 Page Book. His first studio album in seven years finds Tom Waits in possibly the finest voice of his career and at the height of his songwriting powers. Bad As Me displays the full career range of Waits songwriting, from beautiful ballads to the avant cinematic sound scape. There is a pervasive sense…
Bawlers, on the surface, is every bit as soothing as Brawlers is abrasive. But for all the gentle piano and brass embellishments, the mood is far from serene, inhabiting the bittersweet, sentimental borderline between a bender and hangover. Given that this sound goes back to Waits earliest days, the timeframe is wider here than elsewhere…
Originally released in 1992 on Island Records, Bone Machine is Tom Waits’ 11th studio album. 5 years after Franks Wild Years, Bone Machine is a return to studio albums for Tom Waits. The album features David Hidalgo, Les Claypool, Brain and Keith Richards and won a GRAMMY for Best Alternative Music Album. Bone Machine is…
2023 marks fifty years since Tom Waits released his landmark debut album Closing Time. Called a minor key masterpiece filled with songs of late-night loneliness by All Music Guide, Closing Time features the distinctly lyrical storytelling and blending of jazz, blues and folk styles that would come to be associated first with Waits. This 50th anniversary edition is presented…
Originally released in 1987 on Island Records, Franks Wild Years is Tom Waits’ 10th studio album. Titled for a play of the same name and authored by Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, Franks Wild Years was performed by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1986. Franks Wild Years is an iteration of the track “Frank’s…
Mule Variations is the twelfth studio album by American musician Tom Waits, released on April 16, 1999 on the ANTI- label. It was Waits s first studio album since The Black Rider (1993). It won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album and was nominated for Best Male Rock Performance for the track Hold…
Noted as Tom Waits’ most critically acclaimed album, Rain Dogs follows the new musical path Waits had taken with Swordfishtrombones. Considered the middle of a de facto trilogy with Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years, Rain Dogs is the first of Waits’ albums to be written in New York, in a Lower Manhattan basement. A 53-minute,…
After signing with Asylum Records in the early 1970s, Tom Waits recorded a series of acclaimed albums whose noir tales about the after-midnight underworld transformed the seedy into the sublime in songs laced with both dark humor and profound longing. Decades and several musical evolutions later, Waits Asylum years still hold a special place in…
2023 Marks forty years since Tom Waits released Swordfishtrombones, ushering in a new and critically acclaimed musical era for Waits and his longtime songwriting and production partner, Brennan. Waits went from ‘70’s-era “bluesy, boozy” wordsmith and melodist with seven albums behind him to sound sculptor, miner of the subconscious, abstract orchestrator, sonic cubist—while retaining his…
2023 Marks 30 years since Tom Waits released The Black Rider. Originally released in 1993 on Island Records, The Black Rider is Tom Waits’ 12th studio album. The Black Rider is a musical comedy horror collaboration between artists: Robert Wilson (director designer) writer Beat guru, William S. Burroughs (text) and Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan…