The Fiona Apple who strode on stage at Stubb’s for NPR Music’s showcase at the SXSW music festival was more commanding than enigmatic, conveying vulnerability in her vibrato but otherwise booming and shimmying with supreme confidence.
Hear a three-song set from Fiona Apple’s dynamite return to the public stage.
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