MUSIC NEWS- After her departure from Sony Music and with plans to go indie; Tori Amos has now announced that she will release her next studio album, her 10th, on Universal Republic Records ! It's due in the late spring or early summer of 2009. Reports are that Amos and Universal have entered into a unique venture with a different approach to the artist/label arrangement. With the new business relationship, Universal and Amos will jointly work on other projects "in tandem with Ms. Amos' prolific creative output." (OK, we're curious!) One of the first projects will be her release of a "groundbreaking new visual component" along with her new album, according to a press release issued on 12/2. Each song on the album will feature a corresponding documentary-like "visualette" that was shot in HD and Super 8 over the past year. In the statement, Amos' manager, John Witherspoon, said, "The intricate development of this unique Audio Visual component to Tori's musical presentation, which she has been crafting through her own Galactic Media company, is indicative of the outlier creative and strategic opportunities both Tori and Universal Republic hope to build upon this extraordinary relationship."

Ms. Amos' most recent album, American Doll Posse, was released in 2007. Ms. Amos has been working on a musical for London's British National Theatre called The Light Princess tentatively scheduled to debut in 2010.