Music News: Tori Amos Tour Dates Announced

Tori Amos will support her upcoming album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, with a newly announced 27-date North American tour with stops in the US and Canada. The tour is slated to begin July 10 in Seattle and wrap up in Boston on August 17. Current dates and cities are as follows:

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• July 10th - Seattle, WA
• July 11th - Portland, OR
• July 13th & 14th - Oakland, CA
• July 16th - San Diego, CA
• July 17th - Los Angeles, CA
• July 18th - Phoenix, AZ
• July 20th - Salt Lake City, UT
• July 21st - Denver, CO
• July 23rd - Kansas City, MO
• July 24th - Grand Prairie, TX
• July 25th - Austin, TX
• July 27th - Atlanta, GA
• July 28th - Orlando, FL
• July 29th - Miami, FL
• July 31st - Durham, NC
• August 1st - Washington DC
• August 3rd - Chicago, IL
• August 4th - Milwaukee, WI
• August 5th - Minneapolis, MN
• August 7th - Indianapolis, IN
• August 8th - Detroit, MI
• August 10th - Toronto, ON
• August 11th - Montreal, QC
• August 13th - New York, NY
• August 15th - Philadelphia, PA
• August 17th - Boston, MA

Watch the music video for her new single "Fire to Your Plain":

Amos' Abnormally Attracted to Sin album will be released on May 19. [ToriAmos.com]

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Music Notes: Rock the Bells additions, free Tori download

- More artists have been added to the 2009 Rock the Bells line-up: Busta Rhymes, The GZA, and The Knux. The general ticket sale begins this Saturday, May 2. [Rock the Bells]

- Bjork's Voltaic box set has a release date of June 23. There are five different types of box sets available for fans who have different "needs." [Pitchfork]

- And it's an early Happy Mother's Day from Tori Amos! If you visit toriamos.com, you can download a free track ("Maybe California") from her upcoming album Abnormally Attracted to Sin You do need to fill out a form with some information before receiving the track, but you also get a music video and ringtone along with it. [ToriAmos.com]

- A three-CD Britpop compilation (The Britpop Story) will be released in June. While the compilation will feature some of the bigger bands of that era like Pulp, Elastica and Supergrass, it won't feature Oasis or Blur. While I'm pretty obsessed with Britpop, I'm not so sure what to make of the compilation (and as a commenter on the NME website pointed out, do we really need compilations like this anymore in an iTunes age?) I'll leave that up to you guys to decide. [NME]

- Remember Ashanti? The singer will be making her stage debut as Dorothy in a New York City production of The Wiz. The musical will run from June 12 to July 5. [Billboard]

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Music Notes: Bananaz, Monkeys and More

- Gorillaz news: Watch a sneak peek from Bananaz: Taking Down the Virtual Walls of Gorillaz here. Bananaz follows Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's cartoon band from 2000 to 2006. The documentary will premiere online over at Babelgum on April 20, and a DVD release is set for June. [NME]

- The UK's Arctic Monkeys will be releasing the live DVD, Arctic Monkeys at the Apollo, stateside on May 5. The DVD footage is from a December 17, 2007 gig the band played at the Manchester Apollo in Manchester, England. The US version of the DVD will include a bonus CD of live recordings from Austin, Texas. [NME]

- The world premiere of a new Tori Amos video, "Welcome to England," will take place this Friday, April 3, on Yahoo Music. Amos has also recently made announcements about a one-night only exclusive solo performance in London on April 27. Her next album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, is set for a May 19 release. [ToriAmos.com]

- The childhood home of legendary guitarist, Jimi Hendrix, has been destroyed by demolition crews despite previous efforts to ensure its preservation. While many are in mourning, others are opting to look on the bright side. As developer Peter Sikov pointed out, "Can you imagine a guitar made out of wood from Jimi's house?" [Guardian]

- British Sea Power will be releasing a new album in the form of a score for the 1934 film, Man of Aran. You can catch a preview below. [NME]

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