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Jim Jarmusch constructs three scenarios about family, all different, but all revealing isolation between adult children and their parents.

All five Tom Waits reissues offer evidence of Waits’s singular talent via soundscapes that draw on everything from blues, Kurt Weill, and carnival music to Captain Beefheart, sea shanties, and jazz.

Jeb Loy Nichols, a relatively obscure folk singer, delivers a gem. Plus, an album of Tom Waits covers and folk/bluegrass from Kristen Grainger & True North.

Soulful Americana is alive and well on the new release by Jarrod Dickenson.

This continuing Rock HOF induction video series comes highly recommended set (3.5 stars out of four), as many musicians perform some rare and very memorable works. Enjoy 44 live performances from four induction ceremonies (2010-2013).

"I scream. You scream. We all scream. For ice cream." - Roberto

Jon Dee Graham invites you to his latest musical garage sale.

The ten albums that spent the most time in heavy rotation on my CD player. Sorry, the Rockologist doesn't do iPods.

As it turns out, those pesky 2011 rumors that music is dead were greatly exaggerated after all.

A well-rounded Tom Waits album in 2011? Well, ya' don't say...