Smittener: 2008 Dresden Dolls news

December 18, 2008

Music's overlooked gems of 2008—"Vocalist / pianist with Dresden Dolls displays a fearlessness of imagination to put most songwriters to shame."

December 9, 2008

Palmer's new show 'wild'—"To date the reception has been somewhat bittersweet because when people tell me they like the solo stuff more than Dresden Dolls it's like telling a parent that one of their children is cute and the other one is hideous."

December 8, 2008

New Kids, Girls Guns & Glory, Palmer top BMAs—"Amanda Palmer, one half of the Dresden Dolls, was the only multiple award winner."

December 6, 2008

Music: Amanda Palmer not half of anything at the Avalon—"'I love surprising people and giving them more than they expect.'"

December 5, 2008

Amanda Palmer Speaks Out On "Belly" Flap—"My latest record is tanking, but the critical response has been amazing."
Amanda Palmer, post-Dresden Dolls, ‘solos’ in Aspen: Singer-pianist brings diverse influences to Belly Up show

December 3, 2008

Bostonist.com: Amanda Palmer (re)Belly(on) Controversy—"The "Leeds United" video is exciting, but we enjoyed this touching belly tribute as well."

Pitchfork: Dresden Dolls' Palmer Tangles With Label Over Tummy—"So, Palmer got the video she wanted, but she probably won't be working with Roadrunner for much longer."

The Guardian: Dresden Dolls fans have had a bellyful of their record label—"The record label Roadrunner has been getting some serious online bellyache from fans of one of its artists, Amanda Palmer, after she reported on her blog that she had been asked to cut shots from the video for her solo song Leeds United because 'they thought I looked fat.'"

November 27, 2008

Long live Amanda Palmer: Dresden Dolls' bisexual babe on her solo album, Sarah Palin - and telling you like it is—"Palmer is the ring leader of one of the most eccentric and devoted fan bases of any artist playing today."
The Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer plays Mr. Small's with her Danger Ensemble—"The present separation isn't meant to be a permanent one, but as far as a future Dresden Dolls tour is concerned, Palmer is noncommittal. 'It's just a break, but it's still not certain what will happen and when,' she says. 'This wasn't the kiss of death.'"

November 21, 2008

A Dresden Doll's 'Family' values: Piece of past surfaces on Amanda Palmer's solo debut.—"It could be an acoustic ukulele record or a manic dance track. I just want the songs to hit people; doesn't matter how they're done or with whom. There are a million roads to Rome."

November 20, 2008

BMA nominees announced with some confusion—Amanda Palmer is nominated for four Boston Music Awards, including Album of the Year

November 19, 2008

Welcome to Her Doll House: The Dresden Dolls’ Amanda Palmer goes out on her own—"'If we had an aesthetic, it definitely wasn’t planned,' she says. 'Whatever wasn’t fun, we didn’t do.'"

November 14, 2008

cookingwithrockstars.com - Brian Viglione—this is an 8-minute video and the page also includes the recipe for Ma Vig's Pasta Sauce
Amanda Palmer gets some unexpected help—"I'm excited about things that add to the atmosphere of a band. I'd be bored just writing songs and delivering them."
Amanda Palmer: alive and experimental—"A lot of the songs that wound up on 'Who Killed Laura Palmer' would've been Dresden Dolls songs if the timing had been different."

November 13, 2008

Amanda makes the Out100 list

Out publishes the Out100 list each year to recognize "the year’s most interesting, influential, and newsworthy LGBT people."

Congrats, Amanda!

The Men & Women Who Made 2008 A year to remember

September 26, 2008

Rock in the kitchen? Lost in the Supermarket: The Indie Rock Cookbook gets lost in translation—"Brian Viglione from the Dresden Dolls offers a home recipe for pasta sauce and an anecdote about its history in his family..."

September 25, 2008

Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer flies solo
Amanda Palmer tour takes Dresden Dolls vocalist's solo act on the road

September 19, 2008

Press, Release, Play: Blurt Launches Third Issue—Scroll down and click "Read it" for the full text of the article, with pictures.
Artist of the Day: Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer on producing killer album with Ben Folds

September 18, 2008

Who killed the CD packaging?
Dresden Dolls’ Palmer For Tour, Blurt Interview

September 17, 2008

The Palmer Method: Dresden Doll’s solo debut inspired by contradictions, Ben Folds and cheesy Yes video

September 16, 2008

Amanda Palmer Does Newbury Comics

September 13, 2008

The Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer grows up and dies on her solo debut

September 7, 2008

Amanda Palmer
Don't miss this terrific article about Amanda in Boston's The Noise.
"There were times when I was sitting alone in a room and going, Jesus, do people really expect that I know what to do here?"—Amanda Palmer