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The animation movies Wildwood and Ray Gunn – both with Tom Waits in the voice cast – will celebrate their world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival. Travis Knight's Wildwood premiere is scheduled for October 11 and hits theaters October 23. Brad Bird's Ray Gunn premiere is scheduled for October 10 and streams on Netflix from December 18. According to the American Film Institute,

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An acoustic version of The Fall of Troy has surfaced on YouTube. This recording was made during the sessions for the Italian television program Ultima Fermata, but didn't make the final cut. Ultima Fermata (The Last Stop) is a documentary by Angelo Loy, Martino Mazzonis and Luigi Montebello about homeless people in the US and was the final episode of last year's Italian series The Human

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The Hollywood Reporter reports that Tom Waits has been added to the voice cast of the upcoming stop-motion animation and live-action film Lincoln in the Bardo. The cast of director Duke Johnson’s film also includes Meryl Streep, Colman Domingo, Bill Hader, Tom Hanks and Willem Dafoe.The screenplay by George Saunders is adapted from his best-selling book that examines the death of the

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 Tom Waits’ collaboration with Massive Attack — a 12” ‘eco-conscious’ vinyl pressing titled Boots on the Ground that comes in three different colours (red, white and blue) — should ship somewhere this week and is still available for pre-order. Side A has the title track, side B is a spoken word piece, called The Fly. 

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Last month, ANTI- records announced a reissue of ‘Small Change’ to commemorate it's 50th anniversary. This release doesn't appear to have any extra's or doesn't look like a remastered version, but it does come in ‘Sky Blue 180g’ vinyl and is limited to 1.000 copies (so the US shop says). It ships around October 2nd and is available for pre-order now.  

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According to Animation Scoop, Tom Waits has been added to the voice cast of Ray Gunn, an animated feature directed by Brad Bird. The cast also includes Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson. Ray Gunn will stream in 2026, only on Netflix.Animation Scoop: “Set in Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, the film follows private eye Raymond Gunn as he is drawn

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The Tom Waits social media accounts have shared a 'voice note - extract' from The fly, the b-side on the upcoming single in collaboration with Massive Attack Boots on the ground.  The track features Waits’s “trademark droll and sardonic spoken word”.Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan are donating proceeds from the vinyl sales to local organizations funding essential mental health resources

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Massive Attack have put out a statement the track 'Boots on the ground' is their first music distributed under a “Spotify exemption policy“. The band also says further releases are “scheduled prior and subsequent to the band’s run of live performances, including their forthcoming European tour and summer festival headlines“. Alongside the Boots on the ground video, Massive Attack will

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The Tom Waits - Massive Attack song Boots on the ground will be available on vinyl. You can pre-order it at the Waits store.  The press release: This ‘EcoSonic’ edition will be 180g vinyl in colors, red, white and blue and are packed at random.Side A:Boots On The Ground (Tom Waits x Massive Attack collaboration song)Side B:The Fly (Tom Waits spoken word track. Exclusive to vinyl.)Today

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 And here it is.The extended version (with a video in collaboration with US photo artist thefinaleye):  Lyrics: Big legs dangle from a helicopter hole Big chug rhythm it’s gotta be now ho! Brown, mean and young Dumb and full of cum What can you use a marine for This is a fucking ass machine gun war With your boots on the ground Boots on the ground Boots on the ground Boots on the

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 Several social media posts are suggesting a collaboration between Tom Waits and Massive Attack is in the works. More on April 16th. 

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Record company Anti announced a new album called Where The Willow And The Dogwood Grow, with covers of Tom Waits / Kathleen Brennan songs by various artists, such as Solomon Burke, Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash. Most of the recordings were available previously, as far as I can tell. At the moment, the album only seems available as a cd. Preorder is (was) only possible at

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Tom Waits will be starring in Wild Horse Nine, the upcoming movie written and directed by Martin McDonagh. Other actors include John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell and Steve Buscemi. The film – a thriller set in 1973 following a CIA-backed coup in Chile – will be released on 6 November 2026 by Searchlight Pictures.Sources: Vanity Fair, Wikipedia, IMDB

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 Tom Waits is one of the artists on the upcoming Shane MacGowan tribute album 20th Century Paddy: the songs of Shane MacGowan.Other artists contributing to the album include Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, the Libertines, Primal Scream, Jesus and Mary Chain and the surviving Pogues. Some star-studded duets too, with Hozier and Jessie Buckley and Johnny Depp and Imelda May.The album should be

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On December 7, 1949, Thomas Alan Waits was born to Jesse Frank Waits and Alma Johnson McMurray.

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A new (?) version of Tom Waits' performance at the Dead Man Walking benefit concert has surfaced on the Oddities&Rarities Youtube account. The post also includes a download link for the 4k video. The setlist: Walk AwayGun Street GirlThe Fall of TroyGoin' Out WestBig Black MariahYesterday Is HereInnocent When You DreamThe band consisted of Stephen Hodges (drums), Smokey Hormel (

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Laika studios has released (some sort of) trailer for the upcoming Wildwood, an animated movie which counts Tom Waits as one of its cast. The release is expected somewhere next year.

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The book Waits/Corbijn ‘77-’11 is back in print in a slightly smaller version than the original edition. It's due for release on October 21 in Europe and December 9 in the US and is available for pre-order at the Tom Waits store.The book documents over 30 years of collaboration between Tom Waits and Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn. It features over 200 pages of Tom Waits portraits by Anton

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Tom Waits is releasing a third print edition of his poem, Seeds On Hard Ground. The chap book was originally released in 2011 to raise awareness and funds for homeless services. The new edition underscores the persistence of this condition and all proceeds will be donated to NAMI and the Redwood Food Bank, among others.  This edition will be limited to 2.000 copies. You can order it at the

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Jim Jarmusch’s movie Father Mother Sister Brother was awarded with the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. In the movie, Tom Waits stars alongside Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling and Cate Blanchett.

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Italian tv channel RAI3 is showing Ultima Fermata (Last Stop) on Thursday evening (11.10 pm), a documentary by Angelo Loy, Martino Mazzonis and Luigi Montebello about homeless people in the US. According to RAI3, Tom Waits “returns to play exclusively” for this program in the Il Fattore Umano series. “With the poems taken from Seeds on hard ground, the musician acts as a counterpoint to the

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The Utah Film Commission announced the Utah Board of Tourism Development approval of five new productions for state film incentives, one of which is Wild horse nine, by writer/director Martin McDonagh (who you might know from The Banshees of Inisherin, Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri or In Bruges). The movie starts John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Parker Posey, Mark Ruffalo, and 

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 I missed this one: Tom Waits appeared in the movie Absence of Eden, directed by Marco Perego, which was released in the US last year. And another movie starring Tom Waits, Father, Mother, Sister, Brother (with a cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver and Charlotte Rampling), is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, director Jim Jarmusch told France Inter a couple

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Anti is releasing a 7" vinyl version of the 'spritiual' version of Get behind the mule to celebrate Record Store Day on April 12.

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Last year, Waits co-hosted an Iggy Confidential episode, echoing their famous appearance in Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes. The 2-hour program will re-air on Sunday, Dec 29 @ 4pm (GMT) on @bbcsoundsAvailable online for 30 days via the BBC Sounds app https://t.co/gGN24qGDgV pic.twitter.com/A2uS05li6M— Tom Waits (ANTI-) (@tomwaits) December 29, 2024

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