Tori Tidbit In Bust

Lisa reports that the June/July issue of Bust (the issue with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover story) includes a Tori quote in “SheBonics—Out of the Mouths of Babes”, a regular column of the magazine. This issue’s column features quotes from women in music. Tori talks about how her work has been affected by her daughter Tash. Others quoted in the column include Julianne Moore, Liza Minnelli, Madonna, and Alison Goldfrapp.

Thanks to Lorna for letting us know that Tori’s quote was lifted from the RollingStone.com Q&A:

“I didn’t want her looking and hearing me and thinking, ‘Oh my God, that’s a scary lady!’”

-TORI AMOS on how her daughter has affected her work, on RollingStone.com

More On The Upcoming Bio

For all fans who’ve been wondering, the publisher has confirmed for us that Pretty Good Years is not an officially authorized biography.

"Pretty Good Years" Release Date Changed

It appears that the release date for the new Tori Amos biography, Pretty Good Years by Jay S. Jacobs, has been pushed back to June 30th.

Thanks to Mary Katherine for letting us know about this.

(Please note that the change of release date has been confirmed by the publisher.)

Neil Gaiman Tribute Pre-orders

The Tori Store has started taking pre-orders for “Where’s Neil When You Need Him?”, the Neil Gaiman tribute album. While the official release date is July 18th, they indicate that they will start shipping the tribute on July 5th.

You can also pre-order the CD from Dancing Ferret (they will also start shipping the album on July 5th), Amazon, and other online vendors of popular music.

Thanks for Saar and Beverly for the heads up on this!

Add Your Links

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Martian Engineering: New Site Layout (& Piccies!)

Martian Engineering has redesigned their website. It now includes more details, sections, and photos, including two artist renderings of the new residential facility block. Lots of other nifty stuff there as well. You can buy a Martian mug and pick up a used Tascam DA-88 8-Channel Digital Recorder while you’re at it. Sweet! (Go Bude Blues!)

(Thanks to Saar for sending this in.)

Recording On Tori's Next Album To Start Soon

Matt Chamberlain has posted that recording on Tori’s next album will be starting as soon as next week!

In his June 2nd news update, Matt writes:

Just packed up and and shipped a bunch of drums to be sent out to Cornwall England for next week when I start recording the new Tori Amos record—lots of recording and learning going on…...

Thanks to Robert Schrader for bring this to our attention.

And, just to recap the little we know about the new record (as all of this predates Undented), the first whiff of a new album came up in June 2005 when Tori played a new song durng the soundcheck of the Bonn stop on the Original Sinsuality tour. A couple months later, she confirmed in an In Newsweekly interview that she was working on new material but that the earliest it would be released would be 2007. Tori divulged more on XM Artist Confidential saying that the “warrior woman” inside her would come out more on the next record. Finally, in an interview Rolling Stone posted at the end of March, she talked a little about how the next record appeared to be a different new chapter and that we “hadn’t felt this Tori in a while.”

Possible Rarities Release?

A reliable source has informed Undented that there is a Tori Amos “Rarities Box” slated to be released this autumn. At this point, details are sketchy at best, but we are told that it appears on Warner Music Group’s digital release schedule and that the current release date is September 26th. Beyond that, neither our source nor we have any information about what its contents might include or if this will have a corresponding physical release as well.

One would hope for a comprehensive, multi-CD b-side and miscellaneous non-album track collection, packaged in a lovely hand-carved wooden box with copious liner notes and commentary, featuring several oft-mentioned but previously-unreleased songs to entice all but the most curmudgeonly of Tori fans to fork over their hard-earned dosh. However, that might be the ayuhuasca talking….

Whatever it turns out to be though, this is quite exciting news about something that many of us have hoped for for quite a while. And if anyone happens to have contacts or sources within the music industry, additional information about this would be quite welcome!

Stay tuned…

Cornflake Girl Places in the KROQ 500

Following up on a previous story, KROQ has posted the results of their 500 Most Requested Songs of All-Time. Despite having four songs on the ballot, only one of Tori’s tunes made the list: “Cornflake Girl” coming in at #269. (Interestingly, Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, covered notably by our heroine, placed second—wouldn’t it have been intriguing if her cover had somehow managed to make the list!)

Tori in LaChapelle's "Artists and Prostitutes"

Tori is one of the many celebrities featured in David LaChapelle’s new book, Artists and Prostitutes, due out on June 15th. Once described as “the Fellini of photography” by New York Magazine, LaChapelle was the photographer for Tori’s cover story in the June 25th, 1998 issue of Rolling Stone.

This 698-page super-sized volume is being printed in a limited edition of only 2,500 numbered and signed copies. It retails for a steep US$ 1,750.00. No, we didn’t put the decimal point in the wrong spot … that’s EUR 1500,00 | GBP 1200.00 | JPY 270000.00. However, if you order the book directly from Taschen before May 31st, you can purchase it for a mere US$ 1,250.00.

Ouch.

Still, this is definitely a talented artist and you don’t REALLY need to eat this month, do you?

While the shot of Tori chosen for this collection is arguably not the most intriguing of the photos LaChapelle has taken of her, many of the pics of the other celebs are absolutely priceless. Don’t miss Drew Barrymore, Alan Cumming, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kirsten Dunst, Rose McGowan, Ryan Phillipe, Christina Ricci, Smashing Pumpkins, or Justin Timberlake (yes, that really is Justin). The non-celeb photos are pretty spectacular as well.

Nice book, if you can get it.

(Much thanks to Jophiel for telling us about this.)