Video: Tom Waits - Hold On

Sixty two years old. It's crazy to think Tom Waits is that old or that young really. It's crazy to think of him as more than a moment in time, like he should be measured in empirical units or unique increments of time. Thankfully, he's still writing fantastic songs and inspiring the downtrodden, derelicts and brokenhearted. There's so much to love about the new Tom Waits record, Bad as Me , that it's hard to put it into words (and I really don't want to). But the Spanish guitar, the stomp and clank percussion, and the way he's continued [...]

On the edge of fragile memory lies nostalgia, the most elusive of memory's protean forms and one beginning to receive critical attention. An admixture of sweetness and sorrow, it expresses a longing for a vanishing past often more imaginary than real in its idealized remembrance. Nostalgia exercised a powerful appeal in the Romantic sentiments of the nineteenth century, tied as it was to regret over the passing of ways of life eroded by economic and social change, a generalized popular enthusiasm for innovation, and rising expectations about what the future might hold. Nostalgia was the shadow side of progress. - [...]

• Sara Tavares - Lisboa Kuya

"Well, go ahead and call the cops. You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops." Favorite records of all time? Mule Variations makes my list. What makes your list? What records have you rediscovered lately?