Fiona Apple back! Last month, we got the news that the great singer-songwriter would release a new album sometime this year. Last week, Pitchfork announced that she’s play at one of the site’s SXSW showcases. And now she’s announced a quick post-SXSW tour that mostly sticks to the East Coast and finds her in venues ...

Fiona Apple has been in the game for nearly two decades now, and yet she only has three albums to her name. The last one, the very good Extraordinary Machine, came out way the hell back in 2005. And when she did a surprise show with Jon Brion late last year, Apple said, “I can’t [...]

Considering the ticks, tricks, and propensity toward panic attacks the lovely Fiona Apple and pal/extraordinarily talented producer Jon Brion possess between them, the sweetly reverential take on “Everyday” the pair produced onstage came as a slight, but pleasant, little surprise. Now you can hear a studio version, with the p...

Fiona Apple hasn’t had an LP since 2005’s Extraordinary Machine, a release with so many delays that it doesn’t seem that strange that it’s taken five years for her to produce a followup. According to Billboard (who learned about the new album from a profile of Apple’s drummer and co-producer Char...

The Day in Pop Digest for 9/17/10