Mountain Music Discovers Night of Hunters

Seattle radio station The Mountain has posted two complete songs from Night of Hunters — “Nautical Twilight” and “Edge of the Moon” — on their Mountain Music Discovery blog. Head on over and give ‘em a listen!

Thanks to The Mountain’s Music Director Shawn Stewart for letting us know and sharing the the tunes!

Totally Tori On Totally 90s

According to their status updates on Twitter and Facebook, Tori will be appearing on Midwest Radio’s Totally 90s on Sunday at 7 PM BST (click for local time elsewhere in the world).

Listen online or, if you’re in Somerset or Dorset, tune them in on FM — the frequencies are on their website. (Yeah, we know, we know, how old-fashioned!)

One hopes this will be the start of a number of radio appearances supporting Night of Hunters so we’ll be keeping our eyes out for more to show up as well.

Thanks to AngieZ, Mark-Alexis and Stoff for the heads-up!

Watch Carry Video, Listen To Shattering Sea

Head over to Tori’s Facebook page to watch the video for “Carry” from Night of Hunters and click to share the video to unlock a second exclusive track, “Shattering Sea.”

P.S. We assume this is one of the two “music clips” that will be on the DVD of the deluxe edition of Night of Hunters.

Tori Comes "Out" On Night of Hunters

It’s crazy right now and people’s lives are changing in a day. With what happened in Oslo? I’ve been to Oslo many times and you would never think that carnage would be coming out of that city. If you had made me list 100 cities [where that could happen], Oslo wouldn’t have been on it. It’s hard to predict where the next tragedy is going to happen, but there’s another side to when these things happen — there’s a place of looking at your own life and how you want to make changes and what changes you want to make if you’re still alive. If you have another day, would you still be doing the exact same things tomorrow as today?

A brand-new interview with Tori is online today at Out magazine, and it’s full of juicy tidbits about Night of Hunters, the upcoming tour, her family (including her dad’s new musical venture), and her continued avoidance of the Internet. Click past the cut to read the interview, or go on over to Out’s site to follow all the links embedded in their copy.

Thanks to Shannon, Eric, and Whirljack for sending this in!

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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.

Tori TV: Live From The Artists Den Rebroadcast and Soundstage On Demand

Need something to watch on a lazy weekend afternoon? A couple of live concert appearances Tori did for television that are being reaired in the near future could be just the ticket!

First, the episode of Live from the Artists Den that featured Tori will be reshown on many public television stations this coming week in the United States. Most stations tend to air this program on the weekend, but check the TV schedule on The Artists Den’s website or your local listings to see when it will be shown in your area.

Relatedly, the performance, previously released as a “limited edition” DVD package is now available for purchase as a download from The Artists Den. So if you haven’t picked up the DVD and don’t have a local public television station that carries the program, there’s a pain-free way to bring it in to your life—assuming you have a credit card. Looks to be available to be purchased outside the States too (well, at least, it didn’t balk when I selected a nation outside the states).

Second, for those of you with Comcast cable television service, the episode of Soundstage that featured Tori is available on On Demand. Recorded back in 2003, this is one of my personal favorites and is really worth watching more than a few times. You can find it under Music / Live Music…or Music / Soundstage in the On Demand menu.

Thanks to Greg and Valyum for the tips! And remember: if you haven’t seen it before, it’s not a re-run!

"Spirit Walk" Writer Unveils "Little Earthquakes" Interview

Joe Jackson, the journalist whose My spirit walk with Tori Amos piece addresses his 1994 interview with Tori in which she dug deep into the topic of her sexual assault, is back with more early interviews from our favorite fiery-haired pianist. This time, it’s a Q&A Jackson conducted with Tori around the time Little Earthquakes was released. Unfortunately, these audio tracks aren’t freebies, but you can listen to short clips and purchase the full interview in the Shop section of Jackson’s site. Click through the musician photos at the bottom of the page and select Tori’s photo to see and purchase the interview.

Tori Rhymes And Reasons On The BBC

Update: If you missed the program, which turned out to be a rather nice chat between Tori and the host about Tori’s favorite poets and included her reciting a couple poems on-air, you can listen to it on the BBC iPlayer until next Tuesday (January 18th) when the next episode of the show replaces it. We hope to have a transcript of the interview posted shortly for posterity as well.

Tori returns to the BBC Radio airwaves next Tuesday when she joins host Mr. Gee on the new Radio 4 program(me) Rhyme and Reason to discuss the influence of poetry on her life and music.

Check it out on Tuesday, January 11th at 11:00 PM UK time. You can stream Radio 4 online or tune in via an assortment of broadcast or digital means.

The first episode of this new series, in which Mr. Gee speaks with Florence Welch, is archived through next Tuesday if you want to get a taste of what the show will be like.

Thanks to Shireen86 for catching this!

Last.fm Revisits Tori

Just like Christmas week last year, Tori is artist of the week at Last.fm this week. You can click on over to their page to see Tori performing several songs from Midwinter Graces as well as sharing her thoughts on the album and how it came to be. Many thanks to Nicholas for the heads’ up.

And, since we didn’t get a chance to say so already, all of us at Undented hope you guys had a great holiday, full of warmth and joy.

Radio 6 Broadcasts Tori's Concert With The Metropole

Earlier tonight, Dutch radio station Radio 6 broadcast a portion of the concert Tori performed with The Metropole Orchestra back in October on the program Radio 6 Live.

Unfortunately, the broadcast was only a hour long and, as a result, did not include the entire performance. The songs aired were Star of Wonder, Jackie’s Strength, Our New Year, Silent All These Years, Flying Dutchman, Maybe California, Holly, Ivy and Rose, Snow Angel, Programmable Soda, Yes Anastasia and Winter. Songs performed but not broadcast were Snow Cherries From France, Baker Baker, Marianne, Girl Disappearing and Precious Things. Youtube videos of all can be found on our Tour page for the show.

If you missed the broadcast, you can stream it from Radio 6’s archive.