At SXSW last month, Fiona Apple debuted three songs from her long-awaited and feverishly anticipated new album The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw, And Whipping Cords Will Serve You…   Read Story »

Fiona Apple already played SXSW, headed off on a short small-venue tour, and announced the release of her swooningly anticipated new album The Idler Wheel. And now her totally welcome comeback enters…   Read Story »

Many of us became very, very happy earlier this year when we learned that Fiona Apple was on her way back with new music. Her next album, which she's given the endearingly ridiculous title The Idler…   Read Story »

HBO's medieval drama Game Of Thrones premieres April 1, and this season's plot involves five different claims to the throne and these respective factions' ongoing clobbering of one another…   Read Story »

Last week, Fiona Apple played her first two solo shows in a few years at SXSW. The one I saw, at Stubb's, was a pretty magical affair -- a great talent gutting her way through obvious issues of…   Read Story »

Part of the deal with loving Fiona Apple is feeling protective of her, perhaps even condescendingly so. It's tough to judge her new songs on first listen, especially live, because you (you meaning…   Read Story »

...The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw, And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do. Compared to the full title of her sophomore album, that's positively…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »