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There were grueling months of requesting, calling, and emailing. There was letter-writing, cake-baking, dog-walking, and all sorts of other fictional brown nosing to get this interview. Finally, last weekend, our relentless team's efforts paid off. Consequence of Sound got a chance to talk on the phone with the lovely Regina Spektor , our site's "princess," so to speak. (Just in case you were not aware, "Consequence of Sounds" is a song off her second album, Songs . Our name is not a coincidence.) I spoke to her for little more than 15 minutes, but [...]

Regina Spektor 's richly dramatic music has always had an off-kilter sense of narrative. So I guess it's not surprising that the singer/songwriter, who released her latest album, Far , only a few months ago, is set to score a Broadway musical . As ClashMusic reports, she'll work with director and playwright Tina Landau on a show called Beauty . According to its producers, Elephant Eye Theatrical, the musical is "an expansion of Landau's 2002 acclaimed one-act play produced by the La Jolla Playhouse; Beauty uses the 1812 Grimm fairy tale 'Sleeping [...]