Tori Amos

2007's American Doll Posse, marked the beginning of her return to her roots as a bad-ass, weird, experimental rock chick, from way back before albums like 2002's Scarlet's Walk and especially 2005's multi-layered but ultimately tepid The Beekeeper ...

 TX Tori Amos has lived several different lives since starting out as Mary Ellen Amos the child musical prodigy, dabbling in synth-pop in the '80s with Y Kant Tori Read, and then moving on to the incendiary passion and anger that fueled her seminal 1992 ...

I've done that in "The Beekeeper." I was building little keeps by the seaside and that was the structure for that. It was very organic, sort of my Birkenstock period. But I'm in high heels now. And the songs are accompanied by what you call ...

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Tori's 2001 album Strange Little Girls was a collection of songs originally recorded by men. Tori created a separate persona for each song, performing them from a female perspective. Using wigs, makeup and clothing to create each character, ...

By stuck_in_420@hotmail.com (Donna) Started out with the absolutely shambolic, complete waste of time and money pre-sale for the Tori Amos tour in September. If you pre-ordered the album through Itunes, it entitled you to a presale code that could be used to buy tickets for one of the UK shows. I really didn't wanna buy the album...

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 NY Certain songs on the album reference California, and you spent a great deal of time there before the album Little Earthquakes. How did you feel about being back? I think what's pivotal for this conversation is the knowledge that when I wrote Little ...

The last two albums 'American Doll Posse' (2007) and 'The Beekeeper' seemed to run out of stream. On 'Abnormally Attracted To Sin', Tori sounds revitalized. You immediately know she is experimenting with new directions, hence the Portishead mistake. ...

Artist: Tori Amos Album: Abnormally Attracted to Sin Review: After splitting into five separate personalities for 2007's American Doll Posse, Tori Amos pulls herself back together again on her latest. The result is a set of prog-inspired balladry with less bounce than her last disc. The...

Abnormally Attracted to Sin, the 10th album of Amos' career, comes 17 years after her stunningly intimate and vulnerable debut Little Earthquakes. The earthquakes created by new album are unlikely to be as widely felt as that original release. ...

 NY “A Letter” turns the volume up a little more and is very Tori Amos-like, with adept piano work exhibited. “Wind,” my favorite track on the CD, was a standout that brought out the best in Burns's voice, which here sounds simultaneously soft and powerful ...

By woj Tori’s regular session and touring drummer Matt Chamberlain updated his website on March 31st and indicated that he will NOT be touring with Tori this year: How, exactly, this will shake out during the upcoming tour which, according to Tori, was supposed to be the trio of her, Matt and Jon...

By woj SXSW Review: Tori Amos at La Zona Rosa Tori Amos would have had the crowd at La Zona Rosa eating out of the palm of her hand Thursday night (3/19)—if not for the fact that both of her hands were far too busy doing other things during her stellar performance.

By woj “It’ good to see some familiar faces,” Tori Amos said from the stage at her SXSW performance Thursday night at Austin’s La Zona Rosa. “I’ve missed you guys.” Judging by the wealth of screams and flashing bulbs — not to mention an unabashedly enthusiastic introduction by celebrity blogger P...

By Daniel Kreps After touring the bulk of 2008, Trent Reznor told fans that Nine Inch Nails would likely cease touring “for the foreseeable future” following their 2009 concerts. “Forgive me for having a Kanye West moment,” Reznor wrote, “but this was FOR SURE the best show of the year.”A film about the lif...

By woj This project is supposed to address how the members of the Doll Posse changed as the tour progressed and what happened afterwards. Dennis points out that Tori does not say what form this project will take but it sure does sound like what Tori said the American Doll Posse DVD has turned into in...

By Jordan Richardson A lot can happen in a year. Individuals can learn new skills, develop new traits, and go through new life experiences. One of the most interesting components of art is experiencing the growth of a true artist through the passage of time.Tori Amos demonstrates this component on the DVD Live at...

By Paul Schultz Every track of this four-song self-titled debut is like a sample of future musical possibilities because each song is diverse in its own way. Lissie invites comparisons to Tori Amos, Regina Spektor, and Bj�rk, including the idiosyncrasies of all of the above.

DVD Review: Tori Amos, "Live at Montreux 1991 & 1992"  OR - Little Earthquakes gets cut. People become aware. A few more months pass, and it's 1992, and once again Tori Amos is invited to grace the Montreux Jazz ...

By R.J. Carter Over fifteen years later, we're still feeling the aftershocks of those "Little Earthquakes" of Tori Amos. Now go back in time to catch the artist at the cusp of her discovery.

By Fitz Occasionally you run across an artist who simply takes your breath away. Sometimes it's a painting, a writer or an actor, but for me it's more often a musician. Tori Amos in the early 1990s left a rather large impression in my mind. Little Earthquakes, her first solo album, burned itself into t...

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To Venus and Back, released in 1999, must be every Tori Amos fan’s dream—a double CD-set that contains new and old live material from her 1998 “Plugged”

By SysAdmin The Beekeeper sounds like a collection of outtakes from a much better album. And there are few things more bittersweet than reflecting on what could have been. * Review: Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes (29.Jan.03) ...

Cruel (live) -- from To Venus and Back. So full of life; amazing how she turned an otherwise "OK" song into an epic fuckfest is further proof that Tori is a goddess. Horses -- w/Beauty Queen on Boys for Pele. Little Earthquakes Professional Widow

  Canada - Slean gave a terrific performance, demonstrating a level of artistry comparable to artists with far more experience, such as Tori Amos or Kate Bush. ...

And by god, is it great. This album has the most striking image of Tori - A girl and her piano. However you put it, this is Tori at heart. I always recommend to fans that they should start with LE as it's her most defining sound. LE has a simplistic, wintry feel to it. It's a very beautiful album, and it e...

By default@goarticles.com (Clyde Dennis) Tori Amos, the richly talented Rock artist has released her latest CD titled Boys For Pele and Wow! It's really a good one. Tori Amos has been a heavy hitter in the Rock genre for quite some time now and Boys For Pele is an excellent ...

By toonsntunes Tori Amos - Flying Dutchman (Alt. Mix) Tori Amos - Flying Dutchman (live) Oh how I love when my interested get combined. Now if only I could get a 'Veronica Mars' comic book!! In a recent issue of Spin Magazine, it was said that Image Comics is planning to publish ‘Tori Amos’

By gdaysunshine Friday, December 14, 2007 Tori Amos: "Get the F**K Out of My Show!" photo courtesy of PR Photos/www.prphotos.com During a performance in San Diego the other night, Tori Amos decided to show two girls in the front row that she was not pleased by their coming and going. While doing "Code Red", To...

I don't do setlists. but we were treated to Smokey Joe, Waitress, and a bunch of Under the Pink tracks. That's where the Paramount really did its job. Tori's voice, with only the piano to accent it, filled the theatre with its painfully sweet, steel-strong, haunting timbre. i had to close my eye...

CONCERT REVIEW: Tori Amos brings pom-poms and respect to Nokia  TX - Although most of the songs were from her earlier discs, a few were from her most recent album, American Doll Posse. Some parts of the show were superfluous, ...

Review: Tori and her "Posse" take the Kravis Center When one describes a Tori Amos concert as "straightforward," it must be considered that Tori Amos is a singer who thinks of her songs as living, ... Tori Amos Goes Schizo Broward New Times WHICH TORI IS COMING TO TOWN? Palm Beach Post

An alter ego upsets straightforward review of Tori Amos’ repertoire  FL - It was the Tori Amos concert, but it wasn’t Tori. It was Isabel, one of the signer’s four alter-egos from the American Doll Posse album and tour. ...

Boy band accusations  DC - She’s not ANI DIFRANCO for heaven’s sakes, but according to a recent interview with Spinner, the Tori Amos lesbian fan contingent identify with Amos’ ...

Tori Amos, come on down! You're the next contestant on "Direct to Consumer Tactics!" The songwriter will make several live sets from her current American Doll Posse tour available for fans to download via her Legs & Boots website. Th...

Amos moves forward with a dynamic night  NY - Oct 11, 2007 By DAVID MALACHOWSKI ALBANY -- Tori Amos came to town again for a magical, memorable night of music and words, and maybe her best show in Albany to date. ...

By Todd Tori Amos took the stage last night at The Palace in Albany, NY, the first show of the third leg of her massive 120+ date world tour to support her latest studio project, American Doll Posse; her best album in years, and one of the best rock albums I've heard by anyone in a long time. I was at the sh...

By address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Stefan) TORI AMOS 320 KBPS At turns solemn, wide-eyed in wonderment, and whimsical this album is one of Tori's greatest accomplishemnts, in my opinion, and manages even to outdo a masterpiece of "Little Earthquakes". 2. God 5. Baker Baker 8. Cornflake Girl

Tori Amos has one heckuva cross to bear. "Little Earthquakes," her debut CD (well second if you count Y Kant Tori Read) was one of the best albums of all time. I can still remember the in-store displa...

Tori Amos to perform Oct. 30 at the Benedum Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Earlier this year, she released the album "American Doll Posse," on which she performs as a number of alter egos variously named Santa, Pip, ...

CD Review: Tori Amos American Doll Posse"  Australia - By SmartHouse Team | Published:26/06/2007 The new Tori Amos album American Doll Posse takes a step away from the usual Amos piano ballads in favour of some ...

By Mark Saleski So after an extremely early (6:15AM) breakfast at our local diner, I'll be on the road. First CD in the slot will be the new Tori Amos release American Doll Posse. This isn't the first time that Tori has used a cast of characters to investigate goings on. This album is very reminiscent (in concep...

By Al Barger Tori Amos American Doll Posse Epic Folk-Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Folk-Pop, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter British Folk-Rock, British Folk, Folk-Rock Album Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Hard Rock, Arena Rock

Frankly, as a woman, and as a woman who wrote 'Silent All These Years' [a song about rape that appeared on 1992's Little Earthquakes], I needed to stand up," Amos explained. "It seemed to me that, sometimes, the material wanted to be overtly political. Sometimes the material wanted to be che...

Tori's Story: Still trying to catch your breath after the 12-disc Original Bootlegs box Tori Amos put out late last year? If so, you might not be prepared for another comprehensive item, "Fade to Red: Video Collection," which recaps everything from "Crucify" — the first track on her 1992...

Tori Amos: The Beekeeper There have been a lot more pianists in pop since Tori Amos and Ben Folds revalidated the instrument, and a few more dramatists since Rasputina and Marilyn Manson and Dresden Dolls, but it's one thing to convince a teenager that piano lessons are cool and dressing u...

Since the release of Medulla last summer, Björk has been busy recording music for the soundtrack to "Drawing Restraint 9," which, according to her Web site, is "a visual artwork in film form made by Matthew Barney," the father of the vocalist's child. The film, which also features Björk's...

It's been about three years since fans heard from Aussie singer/songwriter Ben Lee as well. Coming off a high-profile breakup with Claire Danes, Lee this week releases his Awake Is the New Sleep, which, despite his publicized sadness, is not a breakup album but a collection of tracks full...