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Tori Amos - Night of Hunters / Album and Tour

Attention Tori Amos fans! The iconic singer-songwriter is readying for a September release of her new album Night of Hunters via the world’s most celebrated classical music record label, Deutsche Grammophon. Along with the release comes a tour in Europe and the U.S. starting in Helsinki, Finland on September 28th.

Tori describes the new album as "a 21st century song cycle inspired by classical music themes spanning over 400 years." She continues, "I have used the structure of a song cycle to tell an ongoing, modern story. The protagonist is a woman who finds herself in the dying embers of a relationship. In the course of one night she goes through an initiation of sorts that leads her to reinvent herself allowing the listener to follow her on a journey to explore complex musical and emotional subject matter. One of the main themes explored on this album is the hunter and the hunted and how both exist within us.”

Stay tuned for a sampling of exclusive tracks from Night of Hunters, available soon. In the meantime, visit toriamos.com for more info, tour dates and ticket sales.

Cyndi Lauper & Tori Amos: “Why Don’t You Love Me?”

Listen to Cyndi Lauper and Tori Amos in "Why Don't You Love Me?" - a collaboration for the David Byrne & Fat Boy Slim album titled Here Lies Love, out April 6.

The album is about the life of former First Lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos, and her childhood servant Estrella Cumpas. It features vocals from Tori Amos, Cyndi Lauper, Steve Earle, Nicole Atkins, Sia, Martha Wainwright, Santigold, St Vincent, Florence Welch and more. [via]

Tori Amos Talks Sexing Jennifer Aniston and Today's Young Divas

Tori Amos gets frank in her interview with Out magazine. She talks sexing up Jennifer Aniston and not wanting to eat “pus*y.” Here are some select quotes:

On her masculine side:
When I play I don't feel as if I'm a sex -- sometimes. Sometimes I feel as [if I'm] an entity and an energy and a musician. But the word musician isn't male or female and there are times when I play that I feel as if I have a third leg. And there are times that I feel that I'm pregnant. If I were a male musician I do believe in a way there'd be less available women around because I would know how to turn some of them out -- particularly Jennifer Aniston. Because I just look at her sometimes and say, "I know what to do with you." But that's my third leg self talking, that's not the woman who wants to eat pussy -- because I just don't want to do that.

On younger female artists:
I think Lady Gaga is immensely entertaining and is a musician. Not all the divas are musicians, they're dancers who can sing, so it's important to say those ones that are players -- that needs to be acknowledged. Some of the performers as they are now, in their incarnation now in their 20's, people have asked me "Will some of these people be around?" When you talk about these women -- Britney and Lady Gaga -- what's working for them now, which is very sexualized, you don't want to see sexualized in [their] 60's.

On which contemporary artists she listens to:
I do listen to contemporary music but years ago there was a particular artist who was asked [who they listen to] and everybody's names were mentioned as artists who would do something with their lives and I wasn't mentioned. And I had to reexamine myself for a couple days and realize that OK, they might not believe in me or even know I existed. And I decided if I were ever in a position that to single certain people out and not others -- I might not be aware of them or not -- I do think that the process of creativity can be very personal and so I keep that to myself. (FULL INTERVIEW).

Tyler Shields and the Stormtrooper

Tyler Shields documents the life and times of a Stormtrooper...and watches as things take a turn toward Negative Town. It's sad really. And similar to Shields' relationship with Andy Dick.

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TORI AMOS ON FIRE TO YOUR PLAIN

Above, one of my favorite singer-songwriters of all time, Tori Amos, chats with OUT about the track "Fire To Your Plain" from her album Abnormally Attracted To Sin - releasing May 19. Watch the video for the song on the next page.