A.V. Club: Best of the Decade
  • Tori Amos

DAR Constitution Hall

1776 D St. NW
Washington D.C. DC 20006
202-628-4780
$45
  • Sat Aug 1 8 pm,
    Tori Amos at DAR Constitution Hall

    Tori Amos has lived several different lives since starting out as Mary Ellen Amos the child musical prodigy, dabbling in synth-pop in the ’80s with Y Kant Tori Read, and then moving on to the incendiary passion and anger that fueled her seminal 1992 solo debut, Little Earthquakes. Since then, Amos’ recorded output has been hit-or-miss—see the particularly uninspiring new Abnormally Attracted To Sin, which falls back on some of the same breathless religion-versus-sex themes that first made her a favorite of goth-lite girls in the ’90s—but live, she still has a presence that can silence a room or make it sizzle.

    DAR Constitution Hall 1776 D St. NW, Washington D.C., DC

Tori Amos has lived several different lives since starting out as Mary Ellen Amos the child musical prodigy, dabbling in synth-pop in the ’80s with Y Kant Tori Read, and then moving on to the incendiary passion and anger that fueled her seminal 1992 solo debut, Little Earthquakes. Since then, Amos’ recorded output has been hit-or-miss—see the particularly uninspiring new Abnormally Attracted To Sin, which falls back on some of the same breathless religion-versus-sex themes that first made her a favorite of goth-lite girls in the ’90s—but live, she still has a presence that can silence a room or make it sizzle.

Updated 07/23/2009

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