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F&M Playlist
Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offGrandaddyHe's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot The opening track from Grandaddy's wonderful 2000 album, The Sophtware...
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The allure of the chain hotel | Xan Brooks
To most people the Travelodges of the world lack any sort of exoticism, but there's more to them than meets the eyeTom Waits told me, a few years back, about his fondness for hotels named after obscure...
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Mercy and Grand: The Tom Waits Project – review
Shoreditch Church, LondonThis was essentially a cabaret devised by composer Gavin Bryars that celebrates and contextualises the songs of Tom Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan. Originally produced in...
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Apps Rush: Pocket League Story, If I Ran The Zoo, Oasis, Tom Waits, ZOMB1ES...
What's new on the app stores on Thursday 5 January 2012A selection of 13 apps for you today:Pocket League StoryKairosoft's Pocket League Story has been out on Android for months, but has finally hoofed...
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One From the Heart
(Francis Ford Coppola, 1982, Studio Canal, 12)The most ambitious film-maker of the 1970s, Francis Ford Coppola had a string of critical and box-office successes before his triumph with Apocalypse Now....
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Pop stars working the web
Rihanna is the queen of Twitter. David Byrne's psychedelic radio show is a global hit. And Tim Burgess has his own virtual caffAs recently as the mid-1990s, when record companies still sent postcards...
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Willis Earl Beal: Acousmatic Sorcery – review
(XL/Hot Charity)The cover of Willis Earl Beal's debut album bears a phone number and the promise to sing you a song if you call him: part of the beauty of this Chicagoan's extraordinary avant-blues...
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All aboard the Tom Waits bus tour!
From downtown dives to the Hollywood hills, a trawl around the singer's former stomping ground is a glimpse of a vanishing LAYou can't get more than 10ft down the main drag of Hollywood Boulevard...
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John Pizzarelli: Double Exposure – review
(Telarc)This will come as a surprise to everyone who had John Pizzarelli tagged as a latter-day swing crooner who also plays some tasty guitar. Born in 1960, he is, in fact, a second-generation jazz...
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Tom Jones: Spirit in the Room – review
(Island)Full marks for nerve to Tom Jones for opening his second successive album of stripped-down gravitas rock with Leonard Cohen's Tower of Song, transformed from hotel-bar funk into a finger-picked...
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Old music: Tom Waits - Martha
Tom Waits is such a one-off that even his juvenilia suggests wisdom beyond his yearsWritten in 1973, when Tom Waits was just 24, Martha finds this earliest incarnation of one of the US's most...
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Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' – a classic interview from the vaults
On Tuesday, Tom Waits released a new video, for Hell Broke Luce from his most recent album Bad As Me. To mark the occasion, we've once more raided Rock's Backpages– the world's leading collection of...
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Walking – review
Holkham, NorfolkLike life, it begins in darkness. Invited to enter a black box by an "angel", I wait for "the way", which I have been told will reveal itself. A groaning rises beyond the blackness...
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Tom Waits to appear on The Simpsons
Singer will play himself in upcoming episode in which he introduces Homer to survivalists preparing for apocalypseTom Waits is set to appear on The Simpsons. The wry, croaky singer will play himself on...
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John Cale: Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood – review
(Double Six)It's probably wishful thinking to interpret this rough gem of a record – released just before a lavish reissue of The Velvet Underground and Nico– as John Cale blowing a raspberry at the...
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Grammy nominations 2013: the full list
Winners will be announced on 10 February 2013 in Los AngelesAlbum of the yearEl Camino – The Black KeysSome Nights – fun.Babel – Mumford & SonsChannel Orange – Frank OceanBlunderbuss – Jack...
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Iggy Pop, Patti Smith and Tom Waits to set sail on Johnny Depp's pirates album
Son of Rogue's Gallery, a compilation of songs from the seafaring tradition, will feature a grizzled crew including Keith Richards, Michael Stipe, Nick Cave and Shane MacGowanIggy Pop, Patti Smith, Tom...
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Seven Psychopaths – review
After establishing his reputation as a playwright, Martin McDonagh made a remarkably confident movie debut in 2004 directing the Oscar-winning, half-hour Six Shooter, set on a train in his native...
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Mercy and Grand: The Tom Waits Project – review
Shoreditch Church, LondonThis was essentially a cabaret devised by composer Gavin Bryars that celebrates and contextualises the songs of Tom Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan. Originally produced in...
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Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys – review
(Anti)Seven years ago, maverick producer Hal Willner recorded the gloriously free-wheeling Rogues Gallery; now, at last, comes the follow-up. It includes a raucous, stomping Leaving of Liverpool from...
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