Amanda Palmer has announced some US tour dates this November, she also has some word for her fans regarding money. In a recent blog post she writes about making money in the current state of music and how she wants to get paid. In the blog post she tells her fans how she...Click the link to read more
The Dresden Doll's Amanda Palmer returns to her old high school to help put on a musical inspired by Neutral Milk Hotel's album, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
In what looks to be one of the coolest events in Dublin in a long time, Amanda Palmer will be performing as part of a signing event for Newbery Award winner Neil Gaiman in Chapters Bookstore, Dublin on Tuesday February 17th. Admission is free.Full details are on the Chapters website - click on the event calendar to the right of the page.Sounds awesome to me. Unfortunately I'll be in work, but i...
Amanda Palmer is facing “fierce opposition” to her new single, “Oasis,” by British media outlets, including NME TV, Kerrang! and MTV.The bubblegummy ditty (and its quite literal video representation) is about a girl who gets drunk at a party, is...There's more on this story at the following link...
From the new album "Who Killed Amanda Palmer", produced by Ben Folds - Out NOW on Roadrunner Records. Order information can be found here. For info on new videos and songs coming ALL year long, please visit here. How'd I do?
"Who Killed Amanda Palmer?" is a bit of a strange thing. It's not an entirely disimiliar thing to a Dresden Dolls record, but it's really obvious when listening to it that it's isn't. It's better for it in places, worse for it in places. But overall, it's still a really wonderful bit of music.So the big question here is what do you get when you mix purveyors of piano goodness Amanda Palmer and ...
As a side note to another journal post elsewhere... : Amanda Palmer was outstanding on Monday night, at The Factory, and seeing Paul Mcnally (of The Surprise Arm) and Alicia there was excellent, too. I did get to chat with Paul about a possible Surprise Arm reunion, but that (as with many defunct bands) is not really a happening concern, which is a pity. Also a pity that Erin wasn't there, she...
Equal parts piano siren, art agitator and punk-pop priestess, Amanda Palmer's performance instincts have energized her band The Dresden Dolls' gothic cabarets since 2001. But she has since decided to take a stab at a solo effort, and called upon...
Even though I heart the original acoustic version from Plans, right now past midnight, there's something about Amanda Palmer's cover of Death Cab's I Will Follow You into the Dark.DCFC's original is like a love song while Amanda's cover is more somber and emotionally full of sorrow. It sounds as if she's in mourning singing to someone who she just lost. You can feel the ache in her voice. It's ...
From the new album "Who Killed Amanda Palmer", produced by Ben FoldsWonderful... simply wonderfulAnd the lyrics... stunning...Oh what a noble distiguished collection of fine little friends you have madehitting the tables without you again no we'll wait no we promise we'll waitjune makes these excellent sewing machines out of common industrial wasteshe spends a few months at a time on the couchb...
I walk down my street at night The city lights are cold and violent I am comforted by the approaching sounds of trucks and sirens Even though the world's so bad These men rush out to help the dying And though I am no use to them I do my part by simply smiling The ghetto boys are catcalling me As I pull my keys from my pocket I wonder if this method of courtship Has ever been effective Has any g...