Classic rock is perhaps the most explosive of all the genres of music. Thinking about it, it’s easy to picture amplifiers spontaneously combusting thanks to the volume of electric guitars, giant drum ...

Tom Waits’ Bad As Me, his first studio album since 2004, is due out Oct. 25, and yesterday the title track—a bit of theatrical barroom-blues stomp over which Waits hiccups the lyrics while a guitar ...