Fiona Apple is firing up her extraordinary touring machine for a cross-country tour this summer. After six years of anticipation for her follow up to When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a ...

I love Jon Brion. I have loved him for a long time, and my ears will prick up like a little puppy whenever I hear he is involved in anything. That’s how I came to give Fiona Apple a fighting chance in ...

The story of the epic struggle to bring Fiona Apple’s Extraordinary Machine to the marketplace — including the early leak to the Internet of the Jon Brion-produced version that Apple ultimately ...

The controversy surrounding Fiona Apple’s Extraordinary Machine will return as Epic has penciled in an October 4th release date for the long delayed album. The finished version is different than the ...

Fiona Apple’s third album, Extraordinary Machine, looked like it was headed for the pop scrapheap. Completed in May of 2003, it was rejected by her label, Epic Records, on the grounds that the songs ...

AS CD COVER photographs go, it’s certainly strange: a curious closeup of what appears to be tiny bicuspids housed inside a peapod adorns “Extraordinary Machine,” the latest from precocious L.A.

It would be easy to worry about Fiona Apple. With her fair skin, small physique and crystal green eyes, she often looks a little scared or melancholic in photographs. In person, she's self-assured.

We’re all conditioned to assume the stupidity of major label executives, but do they really need to make it so easy to hate them? By indefinitely shelving “Extraordinary Machine,” the third record by ...