Article: Mann Works Out the Kinks

IT'S BEEN FOUR long years since Aimee Mann's last album, the cruelly underrated and overlooked "Everything's Different Now," which documented the breakup of a romance in a suite of perfect pop meditations. Mann recently reemerged with a new solo album called "Whatever," and everything's really different now.

The singer/songwriter has retired the band name 'til Tuesday, for starters. "It just seemed ridiculous to hang on to it, because it was just me and {percussionist} Michael Hausman on the last album," Mann says from her home in Boston. "And I was pretty much doing this record with {producer} Jon Brion, who is sort of a one-man band."

Mann also got out of her contract with Epic Records ...

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