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Tom Waits — Orphans

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By Vish Khanna (CHARTattack) January 3, 2007 8:47 pm
It's difficult to articulate how remarkably beautiful this collection of Tom Waits rarities and experiments is. Culled from Waits' archives, Orphans is divvied up between three vague banners: "Brawlers," "Bawlers" and "Bastards." The 56 songs within stem from hazily remembered sessions, one-off projects/...
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WATCH: Tom Waits - “Satisfied” official music video

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By Jon Pappo (CHARTattack) November 9, 2011 2:00 pm
The forever strange and wonderful Tom Waits just released his seventeenth studio full-length “Bad As Me” a few weeks ago, and now we have a video for the roaring and rollicking “Satisfied”, his ode to The Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction” (Keith Richards also plays guitar on the track). The video, directed by Jesse Dylan (of How High fame [and...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 25, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 25, 2011 5:28 pm
You wouldn't normally associate Florence Welch with video games, would you? Well, Florence + The Machine have been tapped to lend a song to the new Dragon Age II video game. A new version of "I'm Not Calling You A Liar" will be reworked by composer Inon Zur. —...Ology Anvil are heading on a cruise that launches from Stockholm, Sweden on April 7...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 14, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 14, 2011 3:29 pm
The Dears have announced their first batch of dates in support of their upcoming Degeneration Street album, which comes out Feb. 15. They'll play gigs in Victoria, B.C., Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles before hitting up South By Southwest in Austin, Texas in March. —thedears.org Diamond Rings has announced some dates with PS I...
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I Read The News Today... For Dec. 15, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 15, 2010 4:01 pm
Alexisonfire will play a secret (well, not anymore...) surprise free show on Friday at Toronto's Sonic Boom record store. It starts at 3 p.m. Oh, and it'll be streamed live on Facebook for everyone who can't make it there.Bright Eyes will tour North America throughout March in support of their The People's Key album, which comes out Feb. 15. —...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 23, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 23, 2010 3:27 pm
American girls! You'll be able to start swooning over Jacob Hoggard and his chest tattoos when Hedley release their The Show Must Go album on Dec. 7 south of the border. It's the first album they've put out in the States. Nickelback and Theory Of A Deadman won SOCAN Music Awards for radio airplay last night. Wait... they were in the same room? You...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 13, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 13, 2010 2:10 pm
Lykke Li will release a new single, "Get Some," which will be available as a free download through her website on Oct. 25. —lykkeli.com Zeus will finish 2010 with a brief run of Canadian shows in December. —MySpaceCBC Radio 3's Grant Lawrence is going on a cross-Canada tour to support his first book, Adventures In Solitude (get a copy if you haven...
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Five Legends Tom Waits Should Adapt Into Musicals

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 2, 2010 2:21 pm
Tom Waits + director Robert Wilson = Magic. This equation has been proven time and again. So we await Waits and Wilson's upcoming as-yet-untitled fourth musical with great anticipation. This time they're working with Martin McDonagh, who directed In Bruges, which starred Colin Farrell as a bungling hitman in hiding in Belgium. Given Waits...
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Tom Waits Takes A Record Fifth Album To #1

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) January 19, 2010 1:42 pm
Post-holiday chart activity as as unpredictable as ever and with more and more radio station music directors getting back in the saddle this week, we have some unusual results on the campus radio chart for Jan. 10 to 16. If anything, it's even more volatile than last week's results. First of all, there's a new #1 album courtesy Tom Waits, a...
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Tom Waits — Glitter And Doom Live

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) December 3, 2009 6:18 pm
This two-disc collection was recorded at various American and European stops on Waits' 2008 Glitter And Doom tour, and his growl is as gruff as ever through 17 songs. The musical performances come off as cabaret-style, which isn't surprising. The chugging blues rocker "Goin' Out West" is probably the high point, but the foreboding "Such A Scream...
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Tom Waits Live Album Coming

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 13, 2009 12:26 pm
Most of us probably wouldn't associate Tom Waits with glitter and shiny things, but he'll release a live album titled Glitter And Doom (doom's more like it) that documents his 2008 tour of the same name on Nov. 24 through Anti-. The two-disc, 16-track album is a collection of songs recorded on 10 nights of the tour. The second disc features one...
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Beck Enjoys Irrelevant Topics

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 8, 2009 1:58 pm
Beck has launched an interview series called Irrelevant Topics on his website... which is exactly what its title implies. Beck's website describes the series as "conversations between musicians, artists, writers, etc. on various subjects, without promotional pretext or editorial direction." The first interview is with Tom Waits, and is...
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Great Songs About Meat

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By Cameron Gordon (CHARTattack) November 14, 2008 3:56 pm
Artists have been singing about food since the dawn of time... and we're not just talking about "Weird Al" Yankovic. In a lot of ways, the relationship between musicians and food parallels the relationship between musicians and their fans. Both food and fans are essential for survival. Both smell kinda funny. Both are necessary evils...
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Pearl Jam, Neil Young, Tom Waits And Others On Body Of War Soundtrack

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 6, 2008 5:30 pm
The soundtrack for Body Of War, the award-winning documentary about a paralyzed American Iraq war veteran, will be released on March 18 by Sire Records. Body Of War: Songs That Inspired An Iraq War Veteran was assembled by the documentary's subject, Tomas Young, who chose songs that inspired him in his struggle to adapt to life after he...
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Music From The Wire Television Series Coming On Two Soundtracks

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By CHARTattack Staff December 10, 2007 7:00 pm
Fans of the gritty, Baltimore-based crime drama The Wire may have already purchased the DVD of the show's fourth season when it was released last week, but now they can look forward to two soundtracks from Nonesuch on Jan. 8. And All The Pieces Matter — Five Years Of Music From The Wire features music from the television program's first four...
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Beck's Information Is Still Valuable

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) November 21, 2006 6:00 pm
After a week when several older albums took their place near the top of the Canadian campus radio chart, there's been an influx of young blood in the upper echelon. Beck's The Information continues at #1, directly followed by The Decemberists' The Crane Wife, which jumps back up five places. Shotgun And Jaybird's Trying To Get Somewhere moves...
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New Releases: Jay-Z Leads Hip-Hop Cavalcade

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By CHARTattack Staff November 20, 2006 6:00 pm
If Tuesday were a bigger day for rap releases, we'd probably forget that any other genres of music exist. Leading the charge is the one and only Jay-Z. Jigga has come out of retirement to rap about what it's like to be rich on Kingdom Come, a record that features the likes of his alleged girlfriend, Beyonce, as well as John Legend, Usher,...
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Tom Waits Asks You To Embrace His Orphans

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By CHARTattack Staff September 1, 2006 5:00 pm
Tom Waits has built up a pretty eclectic catalogue of music over his 35-year recording career, and 54 rare and previously unreleased songs will be packaged together in a three-disc set titled Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers And Bastards that will come out on November 21 via Anti. "Orphans [contains] rough and tender tunes," Waits says of...
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Do Make Say Think Holds Onto #1 For A Second Week

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By ChartAttack.com Staff (CHARTattack) May 14, 2002 3:00 pm
After a week of little chart movement, things have become chaotic again on the campus radio Top 50 chart for the week May 9 - 16, 2002. There are two new releases by the same artist, the release of a highly anticipated year-old album and another favourite album from 2002 matching a new chart landmark. Let's get to each of these topics in a moment...
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