Tori Amos
38 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Steven Daly, Rock's Backpages audio, March 1998
Amos talks about England; believing in herself from a young age; the importance of her paternal grandmother Addie Allen; religion and mythology; not censoring her songs; her need for privacy; her curiosity about ideas and finding tools to do her inner work; what she looks for as subjects for songs; her relationships with the dead and fairies; her marriage ceremony; her first album Little Earthquakes and her relationship with Atlantic Records... and not being part of the Lilith Fair ecosystem.
File format: mp3; file size: 110.1mb, interview length: 1h 54' 42" sound quality: *** (background noise)
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Ellen Amos: Piano Bars - Springboards to Success
Interview by Charles Bermant, The Washington Times, 2 September 1983
COCKTAIL PIANISTS OCCUPY the lowest rung in the musician's hierarchy. While there are some whose performances approach true art, and others whose reputations place them ...
Tori Amos: Stranger in a Strange Land
Report and Interview by Mark Cooper, Daily Telegraph, December 1991
THE LIGHT IS falling in Tori Amos's Kensington flat and she is packing for a Christmas visit to her parents back in the USA. Amos ...
Interview by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 11 January 1992
She's a Grade A, Class One, Turbo-driven Fruitcake, but Southern belle TORI AMOS might just be the antidote to all those cloying bottle blonde bimbettes ...
Profile and Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 22 January 1992
Some songwriters wash their dirty linen in public. Tori Amos dries hers there as well. Nick Coleman dodges the rows of hanging knickers to meet ...
Review by Michele Kirsch, Select, February 1992
AMERICAN SINGER/ SONGWRITER Tori Amos sounds a lot like Mary Margaret O'Hara and Victoria Williams. And while it'd be nice to think that whatever she ...
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, February 1992
If you have a moment, Tori Amos, composer, songstress and troubled soul has a few things she’d like to get off her chest. There’s her ...
Tori Amos: I Wanna Sell You A Tori
Report by Terry Staunton, New Musical Express, 8 February 1992
Six months ago she was nobody, today TORI AMOS is well on the way to becoming a household name. The former LA 'rock chick' has ...
Report and Interview by Paul Zollo, Musician, May 1992
"IT ALL COMES from the centre," she says, pointing to her navel. Tori Amos is explaining where her songs are conceived. "It's like a constant ...
Ride the Unicorn: Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Tanita Tikaram
Essay by Ann Powers, The Village Voice, 12 May 1992
UNICORN KEEPERS have an embarrassing job. The mere thought of those misty white creatures, phallic fantasies for wide-eyed girls, brings a chuckle to sophisticates' lips. ...
Tori Amos: From Rock Chick To Twisted Mystic
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Details, November 1992
YOU'VE SAID that you were an awkward, hapless teenager. How bad was it? ...
Interview by Mark Petracca, Entertainment Weekly, 1993
THE LAST PERSON you'd expect pumping the stair master at your local "Y" would be Tori Amos, but lo and behold, there she was in ...
Tori Amos: The Keys to Success
Profile and Interview by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 16 January 1994
Tori Amos, the piano's Nigel Kennedy with a prettier face, has swapped America and her classical training for Britain and its pop. ROBERT SANDALL meets ...
I Believe In Peace, Bitch. Tori Amos Talks Back
Profile and Interview by Ben Edmonds, Creem, March 1994
EVERYBODY IS multi-lingual. You learn a language to communicate with other people. You learn a dream language to communicate with yourself. But the real language, ...
Tori Amos: Under The Pink (Atlantic)
Review by Mark Cooper, Q, March 1994
THESE HAVE not been good years for distinctive new voices who have to swiftly follow their groundbreaking debuts with that crucial sophomore outing. ...
Tori Amos: So You Found A Girl Who Thinks Really Deep Thoughts
Interview by Kim Fowley, BAM, 10 March 1994
THE PROSTITUTES who work at Nevada's infamous Chicken Ranch brothel, just outside of Las Vegas, once raved to me about Tori Amos's debut Atlantic LP, ...
PJ Harvey, Björk, and Tori Amos: Hips. Lips. Tits. Power.
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, May 1994
Well, would you spill their pint? In the last 18 months, Polly Harvey, Björk, and Tori Amos have rogered the charts with their special brew ...
Retrospective and Interview by Ben Edmonds, Contemporary Musicians, September 1994
AFTER SPENDING years in classical piano training, then experimenting with the Los Angeles rock scene, Tori Amos attracted a popular music audience with her pure ...
Profile and Interview by Pete Paphides, Time Out, 20 December 1995
SOMETIMES IT'S hard to know where the marketing stops and the music begins. When Tori Amos's record company launched her first album, Little Earthquakes in ...
She Walks The Line: Tori Amos: Boys For Pele (Atlantic) **
Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Rolling Stone, 8 February 1996
THE TENSION BETWEEN secular desires and spiritual devotion has fueled rock & roll frenzy since Day One, so to speak, when the fundamentalist-reared Jerry Lee ...
Tori Amos: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Live Review by Carol Cooper, New York Daily News, 15 May 1996
Performing non-stop for nearly two hours on Monday night, Tori Amos sang and played like a woman possessed by the need for release. ...
Armand Van Helden: Widow shopping
Interview by Calvin Bush, Muzik, June 1997
"It's gotta be big" sang Tori Amos. And lo, it was! ARMAND VAN HELDEN's remix of the petite songstress put him right up there in ...
Live Review by Eric Weisbard, The Village Voice, 29 April 1998
TORI AMOS believes in the rhythm method. ...
Tori Amos: From The Choirgirl Hotel
Review and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, May 1998
IT'S NOT at all what I expected. I'd spoken to Tori just before the album was completed, and the few finished tracks I'd heard were ...
Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel (Atlantic)
Review by Sara Scribner, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 1998
IS SHE A high-boil Kate Bush rip-off or a true renegade – a singer-pianist unafraid to cavort with fairies and howl with wolves? Sometimes Amos ...
Interview by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 24 May 1998
"The more comfortable I get with my sexuality, the less it leaks all over the place" ...
Tori Amos: From The Choirgirl Hotel (East West)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, June 1998
Fourth album from singer/songwriter with a fan base of two million. ...
Interview by Steven Daly, Rolling Stone, 25 June 1998
With a little help from her faeries, she is doing more than just getting by ...
Tori Amos: The Loudest Voice in the Chair
Interview by Chris Smith, Performing Songwriter, September 1998
My scream got lost in a paper cup you think there's a heaven where some screams have gone?I've got twenty-five bucks and a cracker do ...
The Soul in the Machine: Whatever Happened to Atlantic Records?
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, What'd I Say, 2001
"UNFORTUNATELY, we’re running a big business here now," Ahmet Ertegun confessed to author Gerri Hirshey in 1982. "And it sort of ... well, it drives ...
Tori Amos: Don't Mess With Mother Nature
Interview by Will Hermes, Spin, October 2001
Taking shots at male violence, the gun lobby, and Eminem, Tori Amos has made an unlikely covers record — a cross between Sybil and Quadrophenia. ...
Interview by Will Hermes, Spin, November 2002
BE CAREFUL what you wish for. When we asked Tori Amos to compile a list of the records that have inspired her music, she brought ...
Tori Amos: Tales Of A Librarian
Review and Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, January 2004
DRAWING ON her albums from 1992's Little Earthquakes to 1999's To Venus And Back, this collection tracks the numerous crests and vicissitudes of Tori Amos' ...
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), April 2005
In her 25 year recording career, Tori Amos has been many things. Hairsprayed rock chick, prodigious pianist and enigmatic lyricist are some of the deliciously ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, January 2007
"AT THE END of the day," says Tori Amos, "if I'm not inflammatory, I wouldn't be Tori." ...
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), 22 September 2011
Twenty years ago this month, Tori Amos was working from a London apartment and awaiting the October 1991 release of her debut solo EP, Me ...
Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 2 October 2012
ALL THE WAY BACK to Y Kan't Tori Read, Tori Amos has always been the feral Kate Bush — slightly more muscular, possibly more grounded ...
Tori Amos: An angry 40-year-old is a scary thing
Report and Interview by Bill DeYoung, The Stuart News, 23 June 2018
TORI AMOS recently celebrated her 40th birthday, and the singer/songwriter says it was no big deal. She'd already had her rites of passage. ...
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