Tom Waits‘ first album of all-new material in 7 years, Bad As Me, hits retail next week, and terrific press is beginning to roll in. The Jon Pareles feature in the New York Times is thoughtful and wonderful.

This has nothing to do with music, per se, but it sure is cool. Hang on…where’s my floating turntable!

If you love Wilco as much as we do you’ll love hearing and seeing the boys play an unplugged set at NPR Music this week.

The amazing  St. Vincent (nee Annie Clark) has a terrific new album called Strange Mercy. This is the video for the first single, “Cruel.” She works again with the directing team Terri Timely (aka Ian Kibbey and Corey Creasey) to create a spooky, funny visual palate.