Two New Tour Dates

Sorin Suciu was tuned in when Romanian radio station Europa FM announced that Tori will be performing at Sala Polivalenta (Polyvalent Hall) in Bucharest on July 13th.

Two days later, Tori will be performing at the Masstival festival in Istanbul on July 15th. (Thanks, Zeynep!)

AOL Music: Tori Amos First Listen

AOL Music is offering up the complete “Big Wheel” plus clips of “Bouncing Off Clouds” and “Teenage Hustling” for your listening pleasure.

Tori herself comments a bit on each track:

• “Big Wheel”: “‘Big.’ One of my favorite words, along with ‘Little.’ Now if I’m a guy, I’m probably going to prefer the word ‘Big’ when associated with my abilities, rather than my other favorite word. As a woman, I don’t mind at all if the whole world thinks that I have a Big Aspiration to straddle that piano stool every night for over 100 shows by Christmas. I don’t mind that at all.”

• “Bouncing Off Clouds”: “Over half of relationships that end in a verbal war could at least be on speaking terms again if at least one of the combatants realized what verbal artillery to use and what verbal artillery not to use — if you ever expect to have a drink with this person again, much less anything else. This is sung by Clyde.”

• “Teenage Hustling”: “I highly recommend singing this at the top of your lungs, preferably in rubber tights. For those gals who don’t move so well in very high heels, the advantage of rubber is obvious if you take a tumble — stains are unobservable to the naked eye and if you do fall, you may be lucky enough to bounce. This is sung by Pip.”

Thanks to Jon, Scott, hairspray queen, and jason.

ADP Vendor Listing

We’ve added a listing of recommended vendors that are pre-selling American Doll Posse. It’s over that-a-way, in the right column above the ADP album image.

LBW Upcoming Issue

The Spring issue of the fanzine Little Blue World will ship in mid-April. Here’s some of what’s included in this issue:

• Interviews: LBW’s exclusive interview with Tori about her new album, her glam squad and more.

• Articles: “This is the Tie That Will Bind Us: Tori, Politics and America.” “Something About the Open Road.” “Chablis and a Spot of Tea: A Look Inside Tori’s Favorite Beverages.”

• Opinion: “How to Bounce Off Clouds (After Soiling Your Orange Knickers)” and “Mixing Tori”—How Tori keeps one fan coming back for more; another tries to assemble the perfect Tori primer.

• Reviews: The Tales of a Librarian songbook and Mirror Mirror by Lorraine a’ Malena

• PLUS regular features likes News, Expert & Ears With Feet.

For more information about back issues, this issue, or how to subscribe, visit Little Blue World.

Pele Gets Her Own Book

Tori once described Boys for Pele as a sonic novel, and soon there will be a book based on the album. The good people at 33 1/3, who produce a series of nonfiction books that examine individual albums, will release a volume in 2008 or 2009 devoted to Boys for Pele. The author will be Elizabeth Merrick, whose past work includes her novel Girly and an anthology of short stories called This is Not Chick Lit. In the meantime, check out the full list of upcoming 33 1/3 books.

In her blog, Merrick writes:

It’s true: I’m writing a book about Boys for Pele for the amazing 33 1/3 series that Continuum Press publishes. How much fun is that? So fun.

I hate it when people (especially women) roll their eyes at that album, saying, “Oh god I loved Little Earthquakes but Pele is so indulgent.” If that’s you and I’m offending you, sorry! Come to a writing class, plug into your intuitive brain, and then listen to it again and see whatcha think. I think that response has everything to do with blocking out the intuition. If you hate it for other reasons, let me know, however—always open to things I haven’t heard a million times over.

Thanks, Rocket_ships, for staying up late to send this one in.

U.S. Toriphile Offers Early Review of ADP

American Toriphile Tyler was recently lucky enough to hear American Doll Posse from start to finish. The full review is here and mentions a few songs we haven’t heard much about until now, including “Roosterspur Bridge” and “Fat Slut.”

Some of the highlights:

• Tyler calls this Tori’s “most rock influenced album,” and rawer-sounding than her most recent albums

• “Roosterspur Bridge” and “Father’s Son” recall classic Tori

• “Fat Slut” sounds “like the bastard child of ‘She’s Your Cocaine’”

"Big Wheel" Rolls To Radio April 2

It looks like “Big Wheel” will be the first single from American Doll Posse, at least in terms of radio airplay. Starting April 2, the song will be added to AAA radio stations, according to Triplearadio.com.

Michael, thanks for letting us know.

take40.com: "wait ... who's tori amos?"

Website take40.com is right on the cutting edge of the Tori News scene. According to a news article posted on their website today, “Singer Tori Amos is working on a new album, ‘American Doll Posse’, which will apparently be ready for release next year.” Woohoo! But hang on … that’s not all. “Before the album release, Amos’ record company will put out a best of style compilation called ‘The Piano’. It will feature singles, remixes, alternative versions and live songs, and will be released later this year.”

Holy crap, are you guys as excited as we are?!?!?!!!!

C’mon, kids, hold hands and stay with the group.

[Update Mar 26: Toriphile Mooky contacted Take40 to let them know about their error. Take40 responded, “Thanks for that! Our bad… the source we took the story from was misprinted!”]

The Real ADP Cover. Finally. Probably.

Amazon.com has updated its American Doll Posse page with new art — the same art that started floating around last week, mind you — and this is probably the official album cover for the standard version of the new CD. Amazon is, however, still not posting a tracklist.

Tori’s MySpace page is featuring this same graphic under the music player (which is currently playing Wednesday’s audio message about the Posse blog hunt) AND the tracklisting for ADP.

Oodles of thanks to Dardo, Greg, Michael, and Alex for letting us know!

Matt's Blog Drums Up Tour Excitement

Matt Chamberlain’s latest blog entry describes — in impressively geeky detail — the custom drum set he’s putting together for the upcoming tour:

One thing that has been going on that I am really excited about is I have drumbuilder extrordinaire (sic) Ronn Dunnett building me a titanium shelled ’70s era Drumkit for the upcoming Tori Amos tour. The sizes are all classic depths—24” kick—13” rack 8” Piccolo/bongo tom—16” 18” floor toms—28“x10” side kick—8” Piccolo Snare—6 1/2“x14” Ludwig Chief TI snare. The rest of the rig will be a Midi Kat pad with a Mac Laptop running Ableton Live. The Cymbals are a variety of Istanbul Agop and Pieces of Greg Keplinger Hammered Metal.

Thanks, Devin, for the tip.