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Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer hasn’t recorded a proper solo album since 2008.

She’s been busy touring and recording live and occupying herself with side projects like Evelyn Evelyn, ukulele covers of Radiohead songs, theatre acting and the occasional tour with the Dresden Dolls.

Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra is due in September.

Via Kickstarter she has impressively raised over $800,000 to date to finance the album.

“Do It With a Rockstar” is the first song from the album and a free download.

Nevermind

Nevermind, the Nirvana album that helped define a generation, will mark its 20th anniversary in September.

In celebration and to honour its brilliance, Spin has compiled a free tribute album of contemporary artists performing the 13 tracks in original song sequence.

Meat Puppets, Titus Andronicus, the Vaselines, EMA and dear friend Amanda Palmer are a few of the artists included.

Download the album via Spin’s Facebook page and listen now to Amanda’s version of “Polly”. She does have a way with a cover song: thoughtful, respectful, insightful.

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Boston

In December I was asked to put together a compilation of Boston artists as a soundtrack for the Boston Music Awards’ celebration.

While no means comprehensive (there are some noticeable absences), it is a cross-section of some of Boston’s finest if not quirkiest musicians over the years, and includes some of the best songs to emanate from this fair city.

As we await the release of new music in 2011, hear the diversified talent that is Boston.

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Boston Music Awards

Willie Loco Alexander- “Mass. Ave.”
Peter Wolf-“Tragedy” featuring Shelby Lynne
Human Sexual Response-“What Does Sex Mean to Me?”
Rick Berlin-“If I Wasn’t Such a Bum”
The Breeders-“Cannonball”
Johnny A-“Sometime Tuesday Morning”
The Cars-“Heartbeat City”
Passion Pit-“The Reeling”
The Modern Lovers-“Roadrunner”
The Real Kids-“All Kindsa Girls”
Belly-“Feed the Tree”
Buffalo Tom-“Sodajerk”
Mission of Burma-Academy Fight Song”
Dropkick Murphys-“Barroom Heros”
Bodega Girls-“She’s Into Black Guys”
The Lyres-“Don’t Give It Up Now”
Chip Rives-“4th and Long”
Mary Lou Lord-“His Latest Flame”
Amanda Palmer-Idioteque”
Casey Desmond-“To Myself”
Bleu-“”Somebody Else”
Aimee Mann-“Dear John”
Throwing Muses-“Green”
Tracy Bonham-“Mother Mother”
Jenny Dee & the Deelinquents-“You’re the Best Thing”
Juliana Hatfield-“Universal Heart-Beat”
Eli “Paperboy” Reed-“Come and Get It”
Morphine-“Honey White”
The Neighborhoods-Prettiest Girl”

Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer has always been one of my favorite artists. You never know quite what she will do next, from the Dresden Dolls to her solo projects, from the conjoined twins of Evelyn Evelyn to her various theatre performances. She’s profound and facetious, dramatic and silly. Always exotically charming and entertaining, she’s unique until herself and today we enter Amanda World once again with the release of Amanda Palmer Performs the Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele. She’s offering this 7-song EP for a minimum of a mere 84 cents. (54 cents must go to Radiohead for the rights and the other 30 cents to PayPal.) You can hear it here, download it here and support Amanda with some extra ducats. From the EP, “Idioteque” is the Song of the Day.

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Evelyn Evelyn

The Breeders, Tegan & Sara, Good Charlotte, the Doves, Múm, the Veronicas, Blonde Redhead, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah all have one thing in common: twins are in the band. Move over Thompson Twins, Cocteau Twins, Olsen Twins. For the first time in rock history, just when you think that you have seen it all, conjoined twins have taken to the stage. Evelyn Evelyn debuted last night in Cambridge, Massachusetts. United with two arms, two voices, four eyes, and one liver (oh pity that liver), Evelyn and Evelyn sang and played piano, ukulele and accordion as the stunned audience heard the story of their tragic life. Yes it was somewhat of a freak show, but then isn’t most rock partly a freak show? Coming to a town near you soon, Evelyn Evelyn have just released their self-titled album. “My Space” is taken from this disc. As Mick Jagger once intoned: “but what can two poor girls do, but sing for a rock ‘n’ roll band”.

“My Space”
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Amanda Fucking Palmer

My dear friend Amanda Palmer is commemorating her release from her record label with a free download. She’s been battling with Roadrunner Records for two years over artistic direction, content and image. At one point they told her that a video should be edited because she looked too fat! Soon we will feature her current collaboration with Jason Webley, Evelyn Evelyn. But today we celebrate her new found freedom with “Do You Swear to Tell the Truth the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth So Help Your Black Ass”.

 

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“Do You Swear to Tell the Truth the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth So Help Your Black Ass”

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