REVERB

In front of a packed audience at Mr Musichead Gallery on Sunset and accompanied by Tree Adams on guitar, who assembled a superb band especially for the night to help capture the essence of Tom Waits’ iconic early songs. Other featured performers included Joy Gregory (in her Rickie Lee Jones red dress) as a most wonderful narrator on ‘Christmas Card from a Hooker’.

Alex Harvey, author of Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles, recently held a launch party and reading at Let It Roll records Kentish Town Rd, London (27th July), where a great time was had by all (some images from Let It Roll, above). You can catch Alex on the remainder of his book tour …

The Day the Music Burned — Hallucinating Woodstock at 50 — Catching up with the Woodstock nun — Designing a new 50th anniversary Woodstock recordings boxset — Michael Chiaken inside Dylan's archive — ghoulish escapades with the Cramps in the cellars of New York’s Bowery

Obsessed with mortality, God-infused, and funny — a list of car crash songs in case you are interested — Cameron Crowe's script for Almost Famous aka 'Untitled' — David Dalton’s rumination on the Sex Pistols, punkgeist, rock theology and Sid