It’s my birthday, so I’m indulging and featuring a track by one of my favorite musicians, Tom Waits, despite the fact that no one else on our staff can stand him.
“Downtown Train” appeared on Waits’ seminal Rain Dogs album in 1985 and was an outlier for the middle of Waits’ avant-garde phase. Instead of the [...]

Bob Dylan covers are nothing new, but when you’ve got a gorgeous and underrated original, and covers by The Beatles (well, John Lennon), Johnny Cash and Jeff Buckley, you’ve got something extraordinary.
“Mama” was originally recorded during the Bringing It All Back Home sessions in 1965, but wasn’t officially released until 1991 with the release of [...]

[This weekly feature is a snapshot of what the Stranger Dance staff can't get out of our collective head each week. On any given week, we might be digging a new local act, an old jazz chestnut, the newest Japanese electro-folk or whatever else we've got on the turntable/iPod that week.]
Happy Friday people. It’s been [...]