"Blast the music! Bang it, bite it, bruise it!" This is Fiona Apple near the end of "I Want You To Love Me," the first song on her new album Fetch The Bolt Cutters. It is not idle rhetoric. Apple delivers those lines in a dizzy spiral of syllables, pushing against the stormy hammering of…

Fiona Apple piqued our interest early this month by announcing that her first album in eight years is finished, and she really piqued our interest a week later by spilling extensive details about the album -- which is titled Fetch The Bolt Cutters -- in a New Yorker profile. In fact, the article was so…

Fiona Apple is encouraging artists to approve all sync requests right now and give the money to those who need it. In a video shared by her friend Zelda Hallman, Apple explains her thought process (in characteristically engaging fashion):…

Fiona Apple announced a week ago that her new album -- the long-awaited follow-up to 2012's The Idler Wheel -- is finished. Today, we all get to learn quite a bit about that album via a detailed and immersive profile in The New Yorker by Pulitzer-winning TV critic Emily Nussbaum.

Fiona Apple does not work quickly. It's been nearly eight years since Apple released The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw, And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do, her second album. In most of the time since then, Apple has been in a state of relative…