Bob Dylan's first new album of original songs in 8 years, Rough And Rowdy Ways, is out on Friday. Fiona Apple -- who released her own long-awaited album this year with Fetch The Bolt Cutters -- is credited as an "additional musician" on Dylan's album in the liner notes. Spoiler alert: Whatever contribution she made…

Fiona Apple went years without doing any interviews. She's been doing more lately, but it's still rare to see her on any kind of TV show. Yesterday, though, Apple appeared on Democracy Now!, a WBAI series that mostly focuses on politics. On the show, Apple spoke to host Amy Goodman for a good long stretch,…

Fiona Apple's new album Fetch The Bolt Cutters is out today, and everyone is freaking out about how good it is. In addition to the torrent of reviews to complement your listening experience, Vulture has published a new interview with Apple, her second lengthy chat about the new LP following that massive New Yorker profile…

"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…