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Features

The Lioness and the Wildebeests: Tori Amos on Going Independent

By Erin Lyndal Martin

Finally free from her major-label shackles, Tori Amos reflects on what went wrong during her major-label career, what she plans to do next, and how it feels becoming a comic book icon. [22 July 2008]

In a Posse’s Strength: An Interview with Tori Amos

By Matt Mazur

The artist splits personae, splits her vote, and defends her shoes. Tori Amos talks to PopMatters about this and more. [27 August 2007]

Coming Soon: Tori Amos, A Collection of Collections

By Megan Milks

Tori Amos is a fascinating person and she will always be, among other things, the classically trained pianist who rebelled against her preacher father; sought inspiration from witch doctors and their drugs; made zany, unmediated statements in interviews; and proved that pianos are as liberating as guitars. [30 November 2006]

Columns

Abnormally Attracted to Sin: Tori Amos Talks with PopMatters

By Matt Mazur

On the eve of the release of her tenth album, Amos chatted about collaborating with rock Gods and Goddesses, how bootlegs could potentially cause divorce, and why a gal sometimes just needs a good wig to add an extra element of surprise to both her marriage and her live show. [22 May 2009]

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Reviews

Tori Amos: Midwinter Graces

By Erin Lyndal Martin

Imagine the surprise to find that a holiday album is Amos' best work in years. [10 November 2009]

Tori Amos: 13 August 2009 - New York

By Matt Mazur

Who better to review Tori Amos’ latest live show than a “crazy” Tori fan? Resident Toriphile Mazur sees Amos again, examines the fan culture he has been a part of for years, and hangs with the artist pre-show in the Rockette’s dressing room. [18 September 2009]

Tori Amos: Abnormally Attracted to Sin

By Mike Schiller

You might be surprised, the way a little sin can pull you back in. [20 May 2009]

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By Matt Mazur

In part two of Matt Mazur's epic tour portrait, the author analyzes Tori Amos' most complex character: "Tori Amos". [12 November 2007]

Tori Amos

By Matt Mazur

In piece one of a two-part series, PopMatters' Matt Mazur recounts a recent run-in with Tori Amos, analyzing her adventurous stage show and her many, many new personalities. [9 November 2007]

Tori Amos: American Doll Posse

By Matt Mazur

American Doll Posse is a record that wants to know why we are at war, and what we are going to do to clean up our mess. [30 April 2007]

Tori Amos: Fade to Red: Tori Amos Video Collection [DVD]

By Michael Keefe

In an era when entertainment was taking over as the principle medium for the communication of ideas, it would not be a stretch to say that Amos was among the leaders of the last (but presumably not final) wave of feminism. [24 February 2006]

Tori Amos: The Beekeeper

By Susan Glen

The Beekeeper sounds like a collection of outtakes from a much better album. And there are few things more bittersweet than reflecting on what could have been.

[17 March 2005]

Tori Amos: Piece by Piece by Tori Amos & Ann Powers

By Leslie Joseph

The coverage goes beyond name-dropping and timelines in an effort to communicate and create new conversations around Amos' music. [1 February 2005]

Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes

By Stephen Rauch

I’ve always thought of Little Earthquakes as the closest thing you can get to pure emotion distilled onto a CD.

[29 January 2003]

Tori Amos: Scarlet’s Walk

By Patrick Schabe

Scarlet’s Walk cements Amos’s reputation, but it also seems like a homecoming from the more contrived work of her recent past. Complex, weighty, often brilliant, Scarlet’s Walk is the album that many a fan has been waiting for.

[27 December 2002]

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By Nicholas Taylor

Tori Amos: Strange Little Girls

By Jason Thompson

A Tori Amos album that even some of the most devoted fans seem to be passing on. Ah well, if nothing else it’ll score Amos a little pocket change. You gotta love product.

[18 September 2001]

Tori Amos: To Venus and Back

By Steve Lichtenstein

She draws you in right away. 'Father, I killed my monkey.' But why, Tori? Why would you kill your monkey? Oh, right, because you're one of the angry ones, pounding your piano in an overflowing gush of angst. Fair enough. [1 January 1995]