Tom Waits - Foreign AffairsRemastered and reissued on Anti. Tom Waits gives one side of his fifth album,Foreign Affairs, to his more structured, bluesy ballads and the other to his jazz raps. On side one, you get his duet with Bette Midler on the singles bar dialogueI Never Talk to Strangersand his take on his Beat predecessors Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassidy onJack and Neal. On side two, you find the extended observations ofPotter's FieldandBurma shave. Waits' voice is becoming

beyond the groove and the riff

Both albums were intended to be listened to as a set in the first volume of Leon's 'Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music' (the title was an homage to Harry Smith's influential collection of folk music issued two decades prior)

de la soul

'Stay Together' is the sixth studio album by Kaiser Chiefs

the band will tour across much of the United States and Europe this Fall

marrying rock bombast with classical arrangements

produced and recorded the album between Reykjavik and New York

 Is He Strange and The Common Snipe - referring to the wader bird that makes a unique ‘bleating’ sound by rubbing its tailfeathers together

CD in 4-panel digipack

They're at least committed to giving the world some trouble before they go

‰۪ released in the UK in 2011

‰۝ Beauty & Ruin packs a staggering lifetime‰۪s worth of emotion and experience into a 36-minute package sure to be hailed as a landmark addition toåÊBob‰۪s formidable body of work