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Labor Day TreatsOriginal at barrynapierwriting (WordPress)
• Sun, Sep 6
By barrynapier First, here is without a doubt one of the 10 best live performances I have ever seen. It features the combo of two musicians I greatly admire, which makes it even cooler. Enjoy the perfect pairing of Elvis Costello and Fiona Apple:
Fiona Apple - When the Pawn . . .
Original at TheCelebrityCafe.com
• Fri, Jun 12
NY You can hear the accurate jazz melody of her voice in “Fast as You Can.” In “The Way Things Are,” her skill for writing a pop chorus with a dissonant verse is represented as well. The record owes a lot to Jon Brion who produced it. ...
Regina Spektor Releases Far Details
Original at Prefixmag
• Wed, May 6
NY Far, Regina Spektor's fifth full-length album is due out on Sire Records June 22. Far features production by Electric Light Orchestra's Jeff Lynne, Mike Elizondo (Fiona Apple, Nelly Furtado, Eminem), David Kahne, and Jacknife Lee. ...
Finding his Tru Calling
Original at Diamondback Online
• Sun, Apr 26
MD His humor has also captured the attention of several musicians, including singer Fiona Apple and Jim James of My Morning Jacket, in addition to West. Apple's 2006 video, "Not About Love," features Galifianakis and Apple lying in bed and walking around ...
American singer entertains at Park Hyatt
Original at army.qdnd.vn
• Fri, Apr 24
Vietnam Influenced by Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan and Fiona Apple, her unique, hypnotic songs enliven audiences and warm hearts. Her first album, “Detour”, was distributed by ADA (Warner) and features Daniel Shulman (Garbage) and Andreas Straub (Run DMC). ...
A True Songwriter: Fiona Apple - Tidal, 1996
Original at Examiner.com
• Thu, Apr 23
Fiona Apple made her first appearance with her 1996 debut, Tidal. If you for a second examine the album cover, there is an intimacy and a sincerity that compliments the confessional quality of this album. The album begins with one of its most standout ...
Beyond Bluegrass
Original at Wall Street Journal
• Thu, Apr 9
Jon Brion, who wrote this song, has also produced records for Fiona Apple, and has a residency at the Los Angeles club Largo. Ms. Watkins heard some of Mr. Brion's work with Ms. Apple and became a "big fan" of his music. She later became a regular at ...
New Fiona Apple: The no-longer Sullen Girl covers a jazz classic
Original at music-mix.ew.com
• Wed, Apr 1
No one can blame Fiona Apple for taking quite a bit of time off after 2005's Extraordinary Machine -- an album that endured several release-date changes, two producers and an entire re-recording. So maybe absence made my heart grow fonder, ...
Music Review: Sara Lov - Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming
Original at Blogcritics
• Thu, Mar 19
OH Produced by Zac Rae (Fiona Apple, Annie Lennox, My Brightest Diamond) and mixed by Darrell Thorp (Radiohead, Beck), Lov is joined by cameos on the album from Alex Brown Church (Sea Wolf) and Solon Bixler (Great Northern) as she weaves her tales of ...
Show review of Missy Higgins and Justin Nozuka
Original at Examiner.com
• Fri, Mar 13
Where I stood" is a musical masterpiece that holds its own against Fiona Apple’s "Criminal" and Norah Jones’ "Don’t Know Why." As Missy The Multi-Instrumentalist went back and forth between playing the guitar and playing the keyboard for different ...
Spin gets a preview of new Green Day album
Original at Punk.bz
• Wed, Mar 4
There’s even a poignant piano ballad that Fiona Apple could love. Billie Joe Armstrong’s vocals push towards falsetto, adding a new level of emotion to his singing. And his lyrics mix the political with the social, depicting marginal characters ...
Not So Screamo
Original at Cleveland Free Times
• Tue, Mar 3
OH For a couple of songs, I wanted something darker thing happening, so I got Mike Elizondo who's worked with Jay-Z and Fiona Apple and Maroon 5. That was really cool too. I worked with a few other producers as well. I was going through a bit of ...
Pop album review: Amy Studt
Original at Scotsman
• Sat, Feb 28
United Kingdom More pensive moments such as 'Furniture' or 'Here Lies More' are more assured than the takes on Fiona Apple-style angst, but the overwhelming fear is that this is all too little too late. The full article contains 113 words and appears in Scotland On ...
The Top 10 Break-Up Songs Of The Past 10 Years
Original at All Headline News
• Wed, Feb 25
Fiona Apple - "Get Gone" A master of the lovelorn piano ballad, Apple gets downright nasty on this cut from her second album, "When the Pawn..", which features the singer weaving playful lyrics and a passive-aggressive singing style atop of her ...
Amy Studt: My writing has grown since teen fame
Original at InTheNews.co.uk
• Tue, Feb 24
UK Fiona Apple and Tori Amos have been cited as influences for your new material - are they artists you're a fan of? I think they are wonderful artists. I adore Fiona Apple, her voice and her beautiful words. Her Tidal album is one of my all time ...
Jon BrionOriginal at Spin
• Tue, Nov 25
By Matt Kiser Fun Fact: Brion was an unlikely collaborator on Kanye West's 2006 album Late Registration, handling production duties for tracks like "Gold Digger" and "Gone." See Him Live: Brion and friends perform every Friday night at L.A. club Largo.
Survivor: Kota Wins, We All Lose
Original at TVgasm
• Thu, Oct 30
By Schoon I'm not sure, but I think that sentence is the title of a Fiona Apple album. Time to vote! Everyone votes for Kelly but Kelly herself, so...she's done. Next week looks cool, though: the Kota tribe will finally have to vote someone out, ...
Whatever happened to Fiona Apple?
Original at kittyradio.com
• Sat, Oct 25
By TimGuy So this time three years ago the internet fans were celebrating their success in finally getting Extraordinary Machine released after the Free Fiona campaign... I find it a little odd that: (a) she hasn't released a follow-up three ...
Ville Valo /HIM album blah wait.what and Fiona Apple?!?
Original at OH NO!!
• Tue, Oct 14
By imposeeble Fiona Apple is an American Jazz,folk,rock singer, she has been performing just as long as HIM actually, she's a Grammy,MTV winner. "She and Ville has been talking on ICHAT a lot and he told me that they have tons in common to the point of it being odd, and he hopes to hang out with her when he get...
Recession rock
Original at Metromix
• Wed, Oct 8
IL - At times, she sounds like an older, wiser sister of Fiona Apple, and she has the chops (and songs) to join the current crop of female singer-songwriters ...
BC indie artist flattered by big name comparisons
Original at Langley Times
• Mon, Oct 6
Canada - When I get compared to Tori Amos and Fiona Apple it’s flattering because I never listen to them. It’s embarrassing, but I couldn’t name a Tori Amos album. ...
Opinion: Fiona Apple Trivia
Original at ZaBlanc's Blag
• Mon, Oct 6
By John Blanco Fiona Apple's second CD, commonly knows as "When The Pawn," actually has a much longer title. On the cover you see it, a poem that she wrote, which according to Wikipedia, was in response to a bad review of her groundbreaking debut, ...
2 new Ted Leo releases, a new Fiona Apple/Galifianakis ...
Original at brooklynvegan
• Wed, Sep 17
For Side A, Zach Galifianakis joined up with comedian AD Miles, record producer Jon Brion and Fiona Apple to record the ultra-danceable track "Up In Them Guts". Side B features a studio version of the classic Scharpling and Wurster ...
Zach Galifianakis & Fiona Apple - "Up In Them Guts" - Stereogum
Original at stereogum
• Wed, Sep 17
By Stereogum If you angled your ears just so you also should have heard track contributions from Horrible People mastermind AD Miles, as well as all-around mastermind Jon Brion. On the flip of the "Up In Them Guts" 7" is Ted Leo + Pharamacists doing ...
Fiona Apple vs Zach Galifianakis: Not About Love
Original at MilkandCookies.com: Headlines
• Sat, Sep 13
• 6 related articles
Music video for the Fiona Apple, Zach Galifianakis song, Not About Love.
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Les sorties de disques de la semaine
Original at nouvelobs.com
• Thu, Sep 4
France - Sep 4, 2008 La maison de disques sortira aussi le nouvel album de Dido "Safe Trip Home" Il a été co-produit par Jon Brion, collaborateur de Fiona Apple, ...
the21gunsalute.blogspot.com: Fiona Apple
Original at the21gunsalute.blogspot.com
• Tue, Sep 2
By Woods Here's the OG version of Extraordinary Machine, the one that was produced by Jon Brion. Jon Brion doesn't generally really do much from what I can gather -- he did the When The Pawn album which is really good and put out a solo album of ...
Guest List: Pattern Is Movement
Original at Pitchforkmedia.com
• Wed, Aug 27
IL - Aug 27, 2008 I like Fiona Apple, but I am personally a bigger fan of Jon Brion. This song's production is outstanding and the drumming is stellar-- specifically the ...
Album review: Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Original at favorite10.com music
• Sat, Aug 23
By Dustin Her alternately breathy and forcefully pronounced voice punctuates an album of tasteful pop tracks that are reminiscent of the leaked and trashed version of Fiona Apple’s Extraordinary Machine with Jon [...]
Useless Trivia Tuesday (The Radiohead quiz)
Original at Seahawks Insider (News Tribune)
• Tue, Aug 19
By Ernest Jasmin Fiona Apple D. Emiliana Torrini. 15. Yorke’s solo album is called … A. “The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time” B. “The Eraser” C. “Running From Demons” D. “Pop Is Dead”. 16. Radiohead’s first No. 1 album in the States was … ...
Review: Fiona Apple : Tidal
Original at Treble
• Tue, Aug 19
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Good talent, Bad album … Kerli is sweet, but “Love is Dead” is a ...
Original at South Carolina Now
• Thu, Jul 17
South Carolina - It’s similiar to the beautifully quirky “Extraordinary Machine” by Fiona Apple. “Butterfly Cry” is slow, but not methodical with little more than ...
Largo at the Coronet Announces Summer Lineup
Original at LAist
• Wed, Jul 16
CA - Janeane Garofalo, Jon Brion, The Ditty Bops, Colin Hay, The Watkins Family Hour feat. Fiona Apple & Dan Wilson, Greg Proops and Flight of the Conchords. ...
Colman’s Well | Concert Review
Original at Monadnock Folklore Society
• Fri, Jul 4
By Dave Eisenstadter He played this for the group’s cover of Fiona Apple’s “Extraordinary Machine.” As Rachel sang and Nils played trombone, Brendan produced beeping and staccato sound from the mbira that added a robot-like quality to the song. ...
LAFF Review: Largo
Original at Cinematical
• Sun, Jun 29
CA - Fiona Apple sings in her hushed, feral voice; Jon Brion conducts one of his grand and fractured experiments. Colin Hay and Bic Runga perform intimate ...
Fiona Apple: Green Chimneys intern - Danbury News Times
Original at Danbury News Times
• Sat, Apr 12
Fiona Apple: Green Chimneys intern CT - For her next album, "When The Pawn...," the singer charted at No. 13 and scored a hit with "Fast As You Can." "I never really think of what I'm going for ...
Fiona Apple: Extraordinary Machine - Crawdaddy
Original at Crawdaddy
• Tue, Mar 18
Fiona Apple: Extraordinary Machine - Mar 18, 2008 Fiona Apple (via Maya Angelou), 1997 It’s been more than a decade since Fiona Apple made her now-famous speech at the VMAs, a decade since she was named ...
Album Review : When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King...
Original at Rolling Stone
• Tue, Mar 18
Review: So how about that album title? Read it as verse and it rhymes; read it as prose and it's Lewis Carroll after too much Hungarian food. Read it backward and it proves that Lee Harvey Oswald wrote Hamlet; read it out loud and realize that it doesn't make a damn bit of sense no matter how you s...
Morning Aural: Fiona Apple
Original at Queerty
• Wed, Dec 26
By andrew Is it wrong to say we prefer Fiona Apple’s “Across The Universe” to The Beatles’ original? Regardless, we do. We also like the singer’s original tracks “Fast As You Can” and “Shadowboxer,” which we’ve included after the jump…
What’s on Thursday Night
Original at NYT > Quentin Tarantino
• Thu, Dec 20
By By KATHRYN SHATTUCK 9 P.M. (Sundance) ICONOCLASTS Make this one a Texas toast. Tonight, the filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and the singer-songwriter Fiona Apple talk movies and music in Austin, where Mr. Tarantino (above, with Ms. Apple) attends Ms. Apple’s concert and she tours the set of his film “Grindhouse,” w...
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine - Leaked version [2003/MP3/192 ...
Original at Libble.com
• Fri, Dec 7
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Regina Spektor strikingly fresh at the Grove - Orange County Register
Original at ocregister.com
• Thu, Nov 1
Regina Spektor strikingly fresh at the Grove Orange County Register, CA - Review: Her one-woman show helps set her apart from the likes of Tori Amos and Fiona Apple. By BEN WENER Just as every new six-string hotshot draws ...
Music Artist Fiona Apple Bio - PR-GB.com (press release)
Original at PR-GB.com
• Tue, Oct 9
Music Artist Fiona Apple Bio press release), Bulgaria - The album did go on to become RIAA-certified gold and it sold 920000 copies in the US The album\'s lead single, \"Fast as You Can\", reached the top twenty ...
Pairing of Nickel Creek, Apple bears fruit - Boston Herald
Original at Boston Herald
• Fri, Aug 17
Pairing of Nickel Creek, Apple bears fruit United States - Sadly, the band is going on indefinite hiatus after these duet shows - but what a way to go. Nickel Creek and Fiona Apple. At the Bank of America Pavilion, ...
Concert Review: Nickel Creek & Fiona Apple - Charlotte, NC - August 5,2007
Original at Blogcritics
• Sun, Aug 12
By Robert Burke Nickel Creek is currently on tour through August 19th, 2007 with the stunningly talented and under-appreciated Fiona Apple. I had the pleasure of catching one of the very first shows on what the band has dubbed the "Farewell (For Now) Tour". The future of Nickel Creek is indeed up in the air b...
Concert Review: Nickel Creek & Fiona Apple - Charlotte, NC ...
Original at Blogcritics
• Sun, Aug 12
By Robert Burke I got to the show early as I did not want to miss Fiona Apple, who was on the bill as a special guest. As someone who has labeled Fiona's last album Extraordinary Machine a brilliant work, I was shocked when Nickel Creek arrived on ...
Rumbo In The Dumbo: Jonathan Ames Beats Craig Davidson, Makes Out With Fiona Apple
Original at Gawker
• Wed, Jul 25
By josh Last night in the sweaty morass of Gleason's Boxing Gym, a crowd of weird literary types gathered around a boxing ring. Famous pervert-alcoholic-author Jonathan Ames was set to fight Craig Davidson, Canadian author of pugilist novel "The Fighter." At 43, more than a decade older than his...
What's in a name? - Cherry Hill Courier Post
Original at Cherry Hill Courier Post
• Tue, May 22
What's in a name? NJ - May 22, 2007 Fiona Apple released an album in 1999 with a title so long "Billboard" truncated it to "When the Pawn . . ." The real title is "When the Pawn Hits the ...
Opinion: FIONA APPLE: I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS UNRELEASED...
Original at Blogcritics
• Fri, Apr 29
By Mark Jochim One of my favorite albums of 1996 was Fiona Apple's Tidal. I'm sure I was drawn in, like millions of other males, by the extremely sexy video for the lead-off single, "Criminal." But the weakness of being influenced by the video made it so much better knowing the rest of the album was worth the l...
CD REVIEW: Lauran Burhenn, Wanderlust
Original at Blogcritics
• Wed, Dec 15
By Josh Foust Laura Burhenn's Wanderlust is not available through Amazon, and may be purchased through CD Baby.What's not to love about a local, independent musician? I met Laura at my best friends' wedding reception, where she was very helpful in vandalizing the car, and wound up being a fun partner w...