Tom Waits News

Overall, Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys), FUN., Jay-Z, Mumford & Sons, Frank Ocean, and Kanye West top the nominations with six each; The Black Keys, Chick Corea, and Miguel each garner five nods; and producer Jeff Bhasker, mastering engineer Bob Ludwig and Nas are each up for four awards.

Nominations for the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced tonight by The Recording Academy and reflected an eclectic mix of the best and brightest in music over the past year, as determined by the voting members of The Academy. Scroll below to see the nominees for Best Musical Theater Album!

Music at NVA presents Rick Holmstrom & the Rick Holmstrom Band with Nathan James and the Rhythm Scratchers at New Village Arts Theatre, 2787 State Street in Carlsbad Village Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 7PM.

Sundance Institute announced today the films selected to screen in the 2013 Sundance Film Festival out-of-competition sections Spotlight, Park City at Midnight and New Frontier, as well as the installations and performances to be featured in the Festival's New Frontier venue. The Festival takes place January 17-27 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.

URBAN TALES presented by Théâtre Urbi et Orbi and the Centaur Theatre Company, will run December 12-15, 2012. Directed by Harry Standjofski with music crafted and performed by Nick Carpenter, this sixth edition plays the 12th through 15th at 8 p.m., with a matinee performance on December 15th at 2 p.m.

Producer, composer, director, and DJ Sam Spiegel today announced the launch of his new project, Maximum Hedrum and the release date of the group's forthcoming self-titled debut album, due out on March 5th 2013 via Spectrophonic Sound.

Bettye LaVette, the legendary American soul singer-songwriter, celebrates 50 years in music by performing a rare one-off UK concert at the London JazzCafe on Tuesday December 11. The London show follows the release of her critically acclaimed new album Thankful N' Thoughtful. Table reservations: 0207 688 8899, Box Office: 0207 485 6834,boxoffice@jazzcafe.co.uk.

Lakeshore Records will release the SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally on October 23rd and in stores today, November 20th , 2012. The album features original music by Carter Burwell (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2, Burn After Reading).

Metric has teamed with Tumblr to unveil the video for 'Breathing Underwater,' the latest single from its acclaimed Synthetica (Metric Music International/mom+pop), at http://tumblr.ilovemetric.com

Tonight, November 13 at 7:00pm, New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) opens a new season of its contemporary music mini-series NYFOS Next with CARLA KIHLSTEDT & FRIENDS at Mary Flagler Cary Hall in the DiMenna Center for Classical Music.

Horse Trade Theater Group has announced the following upcoming events.

Due to the effects of Hurricane Sandy and the current lack of power at UNDER St. Marks Horse Trade Theater Group has been forced to postpone their First Annual Gotham Storytelling Festival for November 7-12. Unfortunately due to outstanding conflicts Ophira Eisenberg, Real Characters, and Blaise Allysen Kearsley's How I Learned will not be appearing in this year's festival as previously scheduled.

Nonesuch Records releases How I Knew Her-the label debut from Nataly Dawn, the California-based singer/songwriter of the duoPomplamoose-on January 22, 2013. The album-comprising 12 autobiographical, introspective songs by Dawn-was produced by her longtime partner Jack Conte and recorded with a group of accomplished musicians at Prairie Sun Studios in Cotati, CA, where many of her favorite Tom Waits albums had been made.

As previously reported, Hurricane Sandy has caused the closure of many events over the past days. Joe's Pub has cancelled its performances for tonight and tomorrow, featuring Ute Lemper.

Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds is geared up for the release of his sophomore album with side-project West End Motel. Due today, October 30 on Warner Bros Records, Only Time Can Tell is the highly-anticipated follow-up to Hinds' acclaimed 2011 debut Don't Shiver, You're A Winner which SPIN dubbed 'a welcome departure from Mastodon's thrashy, progged-out fare...sounds like Tom Waits and Tim Burton co-hosting the creepiest vaudeville show ever,' and Pitchfork lauded for its 'playfulness and off-the-cuff amiability.'

CABARET, Premiere im Theater Oberhausen am 26.10.2012

On Tuesday, November 13 at 7:00pm, New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) opens a new season of its contemporary music mini-series NYFOS Next with CARLA KIHLSTEDT & FRIENDS at Mary Flagler Cary Hall in the DiMenna Center for Classical Music.

Beginning this month, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) will celebrate the iconic work and enduring legacy of composer Kurt Weill with an unprecedented series of events. Opening on Friday, Oct. 19, and running through Tuesday, March 12, CCM's Kurt Weill Festival will incorporate the renowned theatre composer into a broad range of both public performances and classroom exercises.

The popular pop-jazz duo Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano return to the Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, to premiere "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" for a one-week major engagement running through Saturday October 20. The newly minted evening features a treasure chest of assorted jazz and pop gems that the husband and wife tandem pull out by the handful -- songs from the Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Joni Mitchell, Stephen Sondheim and Tom Waits. The two are joined by Sean Smith on bass. Check out photos from the concert below!