Admit it: You're totally lost if goth isn't accompanied by an overbearing helping of cabaret-style piano rock Fret not, Boston's Dresden Dolls are more than happy to accomodate you. READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
Equal parts Weimar Republic-era cabaret act and The Slits, with a heaping helping of Goth bombast, this theatrical duo (fronted by songwriter Amanda Palmer) sure can make a hell of a lot of sweet-sounding and angsty noise. READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
Unconvential duo throws musical structure to the wind on indie CD that mingles bohemian cabaret with modern riffs. For those who crave music from outside the box, there's the very welcome emergence of the Dresden Dolls......... READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
In the complex, sinister world of Boston's Dresden Dolls, Brechtian punk, show tunes and decadent pop conflate to capture the confusion of mental illness. Singer and pianist Amanda Palmer sings frantic songs, teetering between intimate confession and disturbing disconnect, while Brian Viglione's drumming slams underneath....... READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
This boy/girl psycho pop sideshow (or "Brechtian punk cabaret," as they call it) is in equal measures truly transcendent and an inexorable irritant. Boston duo The Dresden Dolls - Amanda Palmer on piano and vocals, and drummer Brian Viglione - are, I'm tempted to say, Hedwig and The Angry Inch meets The White Stripes, but that's giving The White Stripes waaay too much credit........ READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
Boston duo the Dresden Dolls - drummer Brian Viglione and singer/pianist Amanda Palmer - arrive in a flurry of makeup, meds and mayhem.......... READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
With unrelenting intensity, The Dresden Dolls open the listeners' ears and eyes to a wealth of creative fertility unleashed from a complete lack of inhibition...... READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
Den etwas ungewöhnlichen Namen THE DRESDEN DOLLS tragen zwei Bostoner Musiker. Amanda Palmer (Piano, Gesang) und Brian Viglione (Schlagzeug) versetzen den Hörer in die 20er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts zurück...... READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
Boston's most original act in ages, a punk-cabaret duo in whiteface, exposes Amanda Palmer's theatrical songs of piano and pathos.... READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
The Best CDs of 2003 Boston's dark and sexy little cabaret punk band presents an eclectic roster of subtly vicious pop songs.... READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
I've never met Dresden Dolls' pianist-singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer, so I can't tell you what kind of person she is. She writes vivid first-person songs, so I can't prove you wrong if you choose to hear the Dresden Dolls as a monomaniacal series of diary entries....... READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
The Self-titled debut from Boston's Dresden Dolls rocks about as much as you can without actually rocking...... READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
It all begins with a tinny, toy piano melody that seems to indicate that we're entering some old, dusty dollhouse in someone's forgotten attic, populated by the porcelain dolls that are strewn through the liner artwork, who alternate between innocently angelic and eerily demonic, with cracks in their glass and cloudy eyed glares that warn against entering this collage of splintered personality..... READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
"Cabaret-punk" is one of the most misapplied coinages floating around. Boston's Dresden Dolls supply the genre's true definition: they take Weimar chords and Tin Pan Alley wordplay (the latter thematically and linguistically updated to include skateboarders and sodomy), and present them with the wide-eyed, fuck-all urgency of vintage CBGB's... READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
The Dresden Dolls are generating glowing buzz in the northeastern U.S., and it is easy to understand why based on this set of electric live performances..... READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
I first met Amanda Palmer eight years ago. After seeing her first perform at piano in her parents house with a small crowd gathered around, I knew she could be a star. After seeing the Dolls perform just over a week ago, I was completely wrong. Amanda Palmer is beyond potential star, she is the next rock and roll savior...... READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
I just love getting albums like this...... READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
Theatrical, bizarre, weird..however you slice it Dresden Dolls are not an ordinary band. This dynamic duo of Amanda Palmer (voice, piano) and Brian Vigilone (drums) have made what is easily this years best debut..... READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
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The Dresden Dolls is another wonderfully off-kilter brainchild of performance artist and Boston scenestress extraordinaire Amanda Palmer......... READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
eponymous debut
a is for accident 
5-song demo 