Tori Amos Departs From Epic, Prepares Her Own Indie Journey
The latest ’90s alt-rock icon to streamline the relationship between themselves and their fans’ dollars by cutting out the major-label middleman: Tori Amos, whose manager told Billboard that the singer has split from Epic and “chosen the path of independence for her next work.” Amos had been working within the major-label system for the past 22 years, first for Atlantic (which released the ill-fated Y Kant Tori Read, and her solo albums through 2001’s underrated all-covers album Strange Little Girls) and then for Epic.
Amos’ new album is slated for a spring 2009 release, and given that her manager described it to Billboard as “a project of new music and visuals” I’m going to guess that the freedom afforded to her by her newfound independence, the fact that she has a 480-page book devoted to her work coming out, and the devotion of her fanbase will result in her making her own pretty hate machine all over again.
Ask Billboard [Billboard]
