Seven years after releasing her last record, 2005's Extraordinary Machine (Epic), mercurial singer-songwriter Fiona Apple this year released The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and ...

, basically saying Apple is not famous and that she should just “shut up and sing.” Last night in New Orleans, she addressed that right when she walked onstage: “I just wanna say to (musician) Charlie ...