Maybe California Free Download at Amazon

If you didn’t the free download of “Maybe California” from Spinner, LP33 or ToriAmos.com (before they relaunched the site), you can also find it at the Amazon.com MP3 Store for free — assuming you are in the US.

Thanks to Shaigirl for the pointer!

ToriAmos.com Updated! Tour Dates!

In the past hour or so, ToriAmos.com has gotten a complete facelift with a lot more content including, probably of greatest interest, dates for the North American leg of the tour! Read ‘em and weep!

Update: We’ve just gotten word that the Boston show should not be going on sale this Friday. Pre-sales are planned, as Live Daily reported, for May 28th and 29th and passwords will be sent prior to that, after the pre-sale offer concludes on May 18th. Exactly which cities will be included in the pre-sale will be forthcoming.

2009-05-13 Update @ 5 PM ET: Live Nation has changed the sale date for the Boston show to Saturday, May 30th.

Thanks Curt for the tip!

Abnormally Attracted to ... Ophelia

LP33.tv has a new video posted on their Tori page which features Tori discussing, in rather deep detail, the song “Ophelia”. Thanks to LP33 for the tip!

Live Nation Breaks the Tour Ice

Live Nation has added two concerts to their listings for Tori: Massey Hall in Toronto on August 10th and, as rumored previously, Bank of America Pavilion in Boston on August 17th. Both have on-sale dates coming up extremely soon: Boston on this Friday, May 15th and Toronto on the following Friday, May 22nd. Several people have written to get this scoop on this since the conventional wisdom, due to what we knew about the iTunes pre-sale, was that tickets would start to go on-sale at the end of the month.

Well, it appears that it’s not that simple…

Stephen contacted iTunes and learned that the personalized passwords from the pre-sale will be sent out on May 25th (which jives with the May 28th pre-sale date that Live Daily reported) but that not all dates on the North American leg of the tour will be included in the pre-sale.

While we kind of suspected the latter based upon the short list of cities included in the pre-sale promotion, it’s extremely disappointing that that fact wasn’t made perfectly clear from the start since that makes any iTunes pre-orders in markets where there won’t be a concert that is part of the promotion pointless — at least as far as pre-ordering for the sake of the pre-sale goes.

Stephen also contacted Live Nation and confirmed that the Boston concert does, in fact, go on-sale this Friday and was also told that there is no pre-sale for that show.

We’ll see if we can learn any more details about the pre-sale given what has come to light…

Acoustically Attracted to Sin

The setlist for Acoustically Attracted to Sin is in — thank you Jurgen — and, despite what Tori said about Abnormally Attracted to Sin not lending itself to solo performance on piano, she managed to crank out five songs from new record: “Maybe California” and “Welcome to England” along with the three that were played live at SXSW. Otherwise, the set featured “Famous Blue Raincoat” as an opening cover, “Wednesday,” “Cool on Your Island,” and, during the only encore, “Over The Rainbow.” The rest of the setlist is posted in the Tour section.

If you were there and would like to share your thoughts about the performance, please leave a comment using the form there. And if you happen to have photos or video to share, we’d love to post them on the page! E-mail Violet and we’ll get them posted.

MusicOMH Interview (May 9, 2009)

It’s no different than if you asked my husband why he hasn’t integrated into America. He would say it is not his country, that he doesn’t want to go and try to be an American. Well I don’t want to try to be a British person. Though I like some of them very much, and there’s plenty that makes me smile about England.

Kimberly also linked us to this interview on MusicOMH. In it, Tori and the interviewer devote a fair portion of their conversation to “Welcome to England” and the differences between Americans and the British, but they also hit the required points about power and the patriarchy.

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American Songwriter Interview (May 9, 2009)

As I was moving through what I believe in, I began to get to a place where I didn’t need to get the approval of anybody’s to get my spiritual outlook. That’s where I think we stumble and you hand your power over to somebody else. My self-worth has to be based on how I feel about myself.

Tori was interviewed by Jonathan Curtiss for American Songwriter. As with most of the recent interviews, a lot of the same ground is covered but, in this relatively long conversation, Tori goes into some interesting detail about hooking back up with Doug Morris at Universal Republic, the link between Christian Lamb’s films and the new record and, yes, erotic spirituality.

Thanks to velvet for the link!

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Music Fix AATS Review

Luke McNaney’s review of _Abnormally Attracted to Sin for The Music Fix is now up and he’s quite enthused about it, giving it a score of 9 out of 10. Head on over to see why…

Thanks to Kimberly and Luke for letting us know.

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Spiegel Video Interview

Earlier this week while in Berlin, Tori talked with Spiegel about the new record and they have posted a five minute video interview in the Spiegel TV section of their website. It’s overdubbed in German, but it’s not too hard to hear what she says. Near the end, the narrator confirms Tori will be back in Germany in September when the tour rolls through Europe.

Many thanks to Dirk and Barbara for the link!

Presstext Interview (May 9, 2009)

Martin Jan let us know that he got the opportunity to interview Tori for Presstext.Austria. The article is up on the site now where you can also find a couple new photographs of Tori taken by Julia Fuchs.

The interview is in German but Martin has kindly provided a rough English translation on his blog. In the article, they talk about illegal downloads, the return of official bootlegs, and, of course, the new record.

Many thanks to Martin for sharing this with everyone!