Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, a real bourbon sounding voice, or as described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including Down By Law and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Todays tune is taken from the "Real Gone" album, released October 3, 2004. The album features some of the few political songs Waits has ever written, the most explicit being "Day After Tomorrow", a song Waits has described as an "elliptical" protest against the Iraq War.
Real Gone was chosen by the editors of Harp Magazine as the best album of 2004.
Here is "Trampled Rose" in a Magical performance by Waits of this crepuscular crawler from his 2004 album, Real Gone.
This gentleman had a gig Göteborg for a few days ago. Oh how I wished he was in Stockholm. He play the guitar like a god and even Mr BB King is amazed over this young fellows feeling and his voice.
He has just released an album from his project band Black Country Communion and are named the same, Check em out on http://www.bccommunion.com This is an album you simply must buy if you like blues and rock.
Today's Tune Of The Day is Joe alone and more bluesy, its from his new album yet to be released :) Im waiting... Enjoy!
Scottish Biffy Clyro have had tremendous success in the British Isles in recent years. In 2009 they released the album "Only Revolutions" which topped the charts, won platinum and sold out Wembley Arena! In Sweden, they were nominated for "Best international breakthrough" on the Bandit Rock Awards. They have toured the world with, among others Muse, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Queens Of The Stone Age and yesterday they visited Stockholm for a gig at a sold-out Debaser Medis. It was really a pleasant evening was the band did well by himself and gave all they had to their fans and created an incredible atmosphere. The band keeps getting better and better every time they perform live, which is incredibly fun to watch, full speed, in other words.
Biffy Clyro, composed of Simon Neil (vocals, guitar) and brothers Ben (drums) and James Johnston (bass, vocals) founded the band in 1999 in Ayrshire outside Glasgow. Within three years they released their first three albums, 'The Vertigo Of Bliss' was recorded in just one day!
The big breakthrough came in 2007 with the album "Puzzle". A dark album that was written in conjunction with Simon's mother passed away. A partnership was initiated with producer Garth Richardson (Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers) and their guitar-based rock processing of string compositions by Graeme Revell, known for his works of great films like "Sin City", "The Crow" and "From Dusk Til Dawn".
Todays tune "Bubbles" is the fifth single taken from Biffy Clyro's fifth studio album, Only Revolutions. Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age and Them Crooked Vultures provides additional lead guitar in the song. Despite being one of the lower charting songs from the album (reaching #34 on the UK singles chart), it has spent more weeks in the top 100 than any other Biffy Clyro song. And soon the 7th single will be release, yes the 7th single, holy moses.
The Black Keys is an American blues-rock music duo consisting of vocalist/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer/producer Patrick Carney. The band was formed in Akron, Ohio in 2001.
Brothers is the sixth album by the band. It was released on May 18, 2010. The album has kinda unusual cover art but it works out fine. The first single off the album is "Tighten Up" (Todays tune). The album debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 with approximately 73,000 copies sold in the first week released, making the band's highest charting album to date.
Dan Auerbach told The Sun how this song came about: "That was the last song we did for the record. We had a couple of days off and so did Brian (Danger Mouse) and since we are friends and like hanging out with each other we thought it would be fun to go into the studio and see if we could come up with a tune. We always have a blast when the three of us get together.
More info @ Official Website or The Black Keys at MySpace
Listen to "The Black Keys - Tighten Up" on Spotify
