By Jonathan Liu 6/19/12 7:10pm

Music

Apple. (Courtesy Susan Goldman/AFP/Getty Images)

Tangy Apple: The Anti-Gaga Bad Girl Returns

Fiona Apple is not a girl. Come to think of it, she never was.

In our present cultural moment—when, out of opposite corners of YouTube, the two indomitable pop breakouts of the year are a quasi-teenager (Carly Rae Jepsen) discovered by Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez and a real teenager (Kitty Pryde) who raps about marrying Justin Bieber (and running over Selena, twice); when the one popularly unassailable part of Obamacare is the provision that allows keeping offspring medical dependents till age 26—that may be the most incongruous thing about her. Read More

By Irina Aleksander 7/21/10 1:10am

The Shindigger

Jonathan Ames Is Confused

On Monday night, the New York premiere of The Extra Man began with a man standing in front of the audience and letting out a rolling, throaty yodel that sounded like a cross between a sea otter and an exotic bird. 

This happened shortly after Shari Springer Berman, the co-director of the Read More

By Rex Reed 5/01/09 7:37pm

My Night With Maude

Maude Maggart
THE OAK ROOM AT THE ALGONQUIN

The first time I saw baby-faced singer Maude Maggart in a New York club, she reminded me of one of those turn-of-the-century milkmaids you see in antique shops on lavender-colored boxes of Louis Sherry bonbons. She wore granny gowns and sang dated tunes in a colorless voice Read More

By Jake Brooks 9/26/05 12:00am

Will They Riot at Other Music? Indie Faves Look to Get Rich

Forget the autumnal equinox. Fall begins on Oct. 1 with the Across the Narrows music festival, or (as I like to call it) Death to the Siren Music Festival. Headlined by Beck, the Pixies, the Killers and Oasis—we all make mistakes—it is four large concerts over one weekend at both Keyspan Park in Coney Island Read More

By David Bowman 11/22/99 12:00am

Fiona Apple Blossoms … Sonic Youth’s Millennial Boom

Fiona Apple Blossoms

In 1996, amid talk of girl power and waifdom, a tiny 18-year-oldsinger-songwriter-pianist named Fiona Apple made her debut with an album called Tidal . Although at first taken as a marketing team’s capitalization on the Kate Moss moment, Ms. Apple soon revealed herself as a top-drawer popster; hit singles like “Criminal,” which Read More

By Greg Sargent 12/08/97 12:00am

Pesky Film Crews Don’t Like What They See in the Mirror

Resourceful Morningside Heights residents have come up with a lethal new weapon in their war against intrusive movie crews: the mirror.

Enraged by parking problems caused in their neighborhood by filming of a video for the alternative singer Fiona Apple, a group of Claremont Avenue residents decided to fight back. Their strategy: placing mirrors in Read More