New NOH Details, Photos, Title Track Radio Debut

Today dawned with a new press release, issued in the UK. It confirms a number of details about Night of Hunters, including the tracklist and guest musician info we recently shared. It also includes some new information, such as:

• Tash will portray a character named “Annabelle”
• Tori’s niece, Kelsey Dobyns, portrays “The Fire Muse”
• John Phillip Shenale is back, and arranged all the strings/woodwinds

In addition, Amazon.com unveiled a few new photos from the album shoot. Check out the thumbnails below, or click on them to see them larger:

Lastly, radio station WXRT in Chicago announced that it will play the title track from Night of Hunters Thursday (August 4) as part of New Music Thursday. That feature happens throughout the day, starting at 6:00 AM Central. WXRT streams live, so keep an ear to the tuner for a chance to hear new Tori! Turns out that WXRT did NOT play anything from the new record today. Sorry for the false alarm!

Thanks to all today’s newsgatherers, including Mark, Mario, Sean Paul, Julia, Diana, and Kory! And to Jamie and Mike for the WXRT stream link.

New Night of Hunters Promo Photo

While new information about Night of Hunters continues to prove elusive, the website Klassik Akzente, a German website that focuses on classical music and releases, dropped a new promotional picture on their Tori Amos page:

Unfortunately, the album cover in the image on Klassik Akzente links to details about a new release of Kissine and Tchaikovsky Piano Trios rather than Night of Hunters — but one expects that to change before too long…

Thanks to Mario for finding this and passing along the tip!

Austin Ticket Sale Details From UTPAC

As expected, the University of Texas Performing Arts Center has finally confirmed that Tori will be performing at Bass Concert Hall on December 21st. Tickets are slated to go on sale on Friday, August 5th at Noon Central.

At this time, there does not appear to be a pre-sale but tickets may be made available to the Texas Inner Circle prior to the public sale date.

Thanks to Whirljack and the others who caught this before we had a chance to check today!

Tori Ticket Terror - July 30th

This week’s ticket sales round out today with four general sales, in order of when they start:

• Grand Prairie/Dallas, 10:00 AM Central
• Toronto, 10:00 PM Eastern
• Los Angeles, (Saturday, December 17), 10:00 AM Pacific
• Los Angeles, (Sunday, December 18), 10:00 AM Pacific

Good luck to all!

This leaves the show at Austin’s Bass Concert Hall as the sole show on the North American tour that has not gone on sale yet. Several people have said that they saw it listed on Ticketmaster but that it has been since removed. While we didn’t actually see that listing, tickets to all shows at the University of Texas Performing Arts Center venues are sold through their own box office, with online sales being handled by evenue.net. So, while the show has not yet been added to their calendar yet, we do expect it to appear there before the August 5th sale date advertised by ToriAmos.com, with a purchase link added once tickets are on sale.

We’ll keep an eye on that — and also Ticketmaster just in case — and let everyone know when the listing is added.

Tori Ticket Terror - July 29th

Today’s sales for the North American Night of Hunters are as follows, in order of when they start:

• Atlanta general sale, 10:00 AM Eastern
• Philadelphia general sale, 10:00 AM Eastern
• New York City (December 2nd) general sale, 10:00 AM Eastern
• New York City (December 3rd) general sale, 10:00 AM Eastern
• Boston general sale, 10:00 AM Eastern
• Dallas pre-sale, 10:00 AM Central (password = HUNTERS)
• Los Angeles (December 17th) pre-sale, 10:00 AM Pacific (password = NIGHT (Bill Silva pre-sale) or HUNTERS (Nederlander Concerts pre-sale))
• Los Angeles (December 18th) pre-sale, 10:00 AM Pacific (password = NIGHT (Bill Silva pre-sale) or HUNTERS (Nederlander Concerts pre-sale))
• Oakland general sale, 11:00 AM Pacific

Tori Ticket Terror - July 28th

There are four pre-sales being held on Thursday, July 28th: Atlanta, Philadelphia, Toronto and Oakland. Details are outlined below:

• Atlanta, 10:00 AM Eastern, password = SCARLET
• Philadelphia, 10:00 AM Eastern, password = lyrics
• Toronto, 10:00 AM Eastern, password = LYRICS
• Oakland, 10:00 AM Pacific, password is not known, but should be posted on Live Nation Bay Area’s Facebook tomorrow before the pre-sale starts. Once we know what it is, we’ll get it updated here as quickly as we can.

Keep an eye here and on Twitter for updates as they come in.

Precious Things Featured on So You Think You Can Dance

Last night’s episode of the reality television program “So You Think You Can Dance” featured a piece set to Tori’s song “Precious Things.” Performed by dancers Allison Holker and Ricky Jaime, the piece was choreographed by Tyce Diorio.

Check out the piece on YouTube or, if the embed code thingie works right, below:

Thanks to juliet, DaturaCub, Tarin, robbit and Kristin for letting us know!

The Modular Project

Wondering what Dan Phelps, some-time American Doll Posse tour guitarist, and Matt Chamberlain, Tori’s long-time drummer for both touring and recording, have been up to lately?

As it turns out, they, along with bassist Viktor Krauss, have a new release out as The Modular Project. This dreamy and organic instrumental collaboration is, to my ears anyway, quite tasty. If that sounds intriguing, give it a spin at Bandcamp and consider picking up either a digital copy or, for the fellow object fetishists out there, the double LP!

Tori Ticket Terror - North America Week 1

The first round of North American Night of Hunters tour dates go on sale this week. As there are only four shows in this batch — Washington, Chicago, Vancouver and Seattle — the ticket terror will hopefully not be too stressful…but if not, the next two weeks should take care of that!

Here’s how this week’s presales and general sales play out. As we get new details in, we’ll update this article, show listings in Tour and update the information on Twitter.

Washington

• Thursday, July 21, 10:00 AM EDT – Live Nation Mobile App Pre-sale (requires Live Nation app to access)
• Thursday, July 21, 10:00 AM EDT – Live Nation/Radio Pre-sale (password = “lyrics”, may require Live Nation registration)
• Friday, July 22, 10:00 AM EDT – General Sale

Chicago

• Saturday, July 23, 10:00 AM CDT – General Sale

Vancouver

• Wednesday, July 20, 10:00 AM PDT – Live Nation Mobile App Pre-sale (requires Live Nation app to access)
• Wednesday, July 20, 10:00 AM PDT – Live Nation Pre-sale (password = “lyrics”, may require Live Nation registration)
• Thursday, July 21, 10:00 AM PDT – Georiga Straight Pre-Sale (password = hunters)
• Friday, July 22, 10:00 AM PDT – General Sale

Seattle

• Thursday, July 21, 10:00 PDT – Monqui Pre-sale (password = MONQUI)
• Friday, July 22 – General Sale

North American Venues and Sale Dates

ToriAmos.com has added venues and on-sale dates for the North American stops on the Night of Hunters tour to their tour list and we’ve added them to ours as well. Most shows go on-sale during the last two weeks of July, though Austin doesn’t go up until early August. Currently, other sale infomation such as links, prices, etc. are not available but we expect them to start popping up on the usual ticket vendor sites and venue websites soon. As that information becomes available, we’ll update it on the individual pages of the tour section.

Update (2011-07-18 6:00 PM ET): Chicago, Washington and Vancouver become the first shows of the North American leg to be listed on Ticketmaster and/or Live Nation. Seattle is also mentioned on Tickets.com though there are no details as of yet, though there are some at Seattle Theatre Group.

We’ll keep adding details to the concert pages in the Tour section as they come in. Keep an eye on Ticketmaster, Live Nation and Tickets.com as we’d expect tickets to most of the shows to be sold through those vendors.