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02/2008 |
IThe setting is more divine when its innards are exposed. The openness of the audience-less Fillmore, formerly the TLA, is worth appreciating, and only on positive terms, is as drab behind the scenes as some of talented temporary tenets that have soaked their livelihoods in the bathroom, loosely higed doors and quite possibly the musty couch Amanda Palmer was sprawled out on.
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01/2007 |
It's The Final Countdown - Top Fifty Albums Of The Year
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winter 2006 |
Much reknowned for it's high-brow theatre performances as rock 'n' roll shows, Camden's newly re-opened Roundhouse is an ideal choice of venue for Boston's art-rock duo de jour.
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12/2006 |
In the wrong hands, the piano can be a tool of evil
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11/2006 |
With the Halloween spirit still hangin in the air, the impressivel;y restored Roundhouse proves the perfect setting as The Dresden Dolls circus comes to town.
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08/2006 |
Tour Diary: Last night in berlin, for the first time in my life, I was actually awakened by two (I assume it was two) people having sex.
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06/2006 |
If you haven't yet heard of the Dresden Dolls, it's time yu crawled out from that stone you've been lurking under and checked out where alternative music has been heading without you.
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05/2006 |
With their goth-friendly
2004 debut, The Dresden Dolls brought a theatrical
touch of Weimar-era Germany back into pop music.
Pianist-vocalist Amanda Palmer and drummer Brian
Viglione live in a world where Christopher Isherwood
and Sparks jam together...
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04/2006 |
Arch provacateurs the Dresden
Dolls are back, their dark cabaret as theatrical
as ever, their second album a poison-pen letter
seething with sex, politics and isolation. Singer
and pianist Amanda Palmer still plays a goth Sally
Bowles - her voice bold and brittle, her words
unsentimental-but, together with drummer, Brian
Viglione, she has moved away from the Weimar Republic
feel of the duo's 2004 debut and ambraced pop.
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04/2006 |
Boston’s Amanda Palmer
and Brian Viglione, aka The Dresden Dolls, return
with ‘Yes Virginia, the follow-up to their
eponymous debut, and any doubts that mainstream
success may have diluted the energy and quirkiness
that make The Dresden Dolls so unique is quickly
dispelled as the album kick-starts with ‘Sex
Changes’, a four-minute long (the Doll’s
don’t do ditties) relentless rant at the
folly of love and sex; as Amanda shrieks ‘we
might need to chop your cock off/ Tick-tock, Tick-tock,
Tick-tock!’ it’s obvious that they’re
not pulling any punches with this record.
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04/2006 |
The Boston home of Amanda
Palmer, singer and pianist with the Dresden Dolls,
is so eye-poppingly weird that she could get away
with calling it a tourist attraction and charging
admission.
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04/2006 |
One of the many qualifications
for me, that somethinig is punk rock, is if the
people concerned have carved something new and
different for themselves with no obvious anticipation
of success.
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04/2006 |
When you're the finest
neo-burlesque twosome in the business, and your
thrillingly refreshing debut has failed to make
the impact it deserved, what do you do next? Curl
up your hoopy-stockinged toes and bed down in
obscurity?
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04/2006 |
An eclectic contradition
in terms created by over-zealous eccentrics or
a simple, fateful meeting of musical minds? Rock
Sound unwraps the enigma that is The Dresden Dolls...
"To many people's surprise, I'm actually
a relatively well-adjusted person," begins
Amanda Palmer, one half of "Brechtian Punk
Cabaret" duo, The Dresden Dolls. "I
don't go around ripping people's heads off or
slamming doors in the way it might seem from the
music."
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04/2006 |
The Dresden Dolls are a
breath of fresh air. When success in the music
world seems to depend increasingly on playing
it safe (Coldplay et all) or turning rebellion
into a marketable commodity (thanks, Hot Topic),
their complete disregard for trends and commercial
appeal is quite inspiring.
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04/2006 |
When
the opener concerns a sex change, and features
a sultry-voiced femme noting that 'you'd love
to have a little something to play with', eyebrows
will be raised.
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04/2006 |
Their
name may make them sound like a leopard-print-clad
tribute band to Richey-era Manics, but Dresden
Dolls are a Bostonian duo who sound somewhere
between Sparks and Laurie Anderson.
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04/2006 |
One
boy, one girl, very loud drums, outlandish dress
and a sound echoing from a long, long time ago.
The White who? Naaah mate, we're talking The Dresden
Dolls and new album 'Yes Virginia' of course.
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04/2006 |
It
shouldn't work: A Clockwork Orange imagery meets
Liza Minnelli's Cabaret via the custard pie-slinging
of Bugsy Malone and some riotous glam rock, and
the seedy backstreet clubs of Berline. Piano runs
rampant, a fiercely expressive female voice questions
and cajoles and expresses fear and wonder and
orgasmic delight...
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03/2006 |
Once
upon a time in a land called Boston a little girl
and a little boy were born. Her mummy taught her
how to play piano, and his daddy showed him how
to play drums. They didn't know it yet, but one
day they'd be best of friends, and she would wear
mainly lingerie, and he would apply his make-up
with beauty school panache. They would sing songs
about paedophilia, self-harm, and being very sad,
and people would love it.
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03/2006 |
Living
in a two-faced, popular culture built on artifice
that demands authenticity; the Dresden Dolls take
the world stage, tear down the curtain, rip holes
in the veneer and create their own rules, rhymes
and reason.
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11/2005 |
It's
only Rock'N'Dolls. Move over the White STripes:
the latest American rock duo sensation is the
Dresden Dolls. Amanada Palmer(piano, vocals) and
Brian Viglione (drums) have opened for Beck, Jane's
Addiction and the B-52's, and scooped a bag-full
of awards in the US.
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11/2005 |
Amanda
Plamer of The dresden Dolls on her favourite records
What's the
first record ypuo fell in love with? "Sergeant
Pepper's, when I was about seven. My mother
had it in her collection.
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2005 |
They
make "dynamic piano and drums music with
a twist of lemon", and soon they'll be bringing
it to a town near you. rock sound asks drummer
Brian Viglione what they're all about...
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08/2005 |
Clowns
with attitude. Pure showmanship characterises
American duo the Dresden Dolls. Naomi Watts meets
a pair 'in total rock love.' For a considerable
number of rock outfits, to be described as theatrical
would be considered a slur.
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03/2005 |
It
is 6.30pm on a Friday and Liverpool is gearing
up for the weekend. Lime Street station is awash
with travellers, students commuters and urchins
all lost in the strange personal world they inhabit.
Wrapped up against the cold and alone in their
thoughts. Service at the nearby pubs is slow as
office workers jostle with arl fellers and girls
barely out of their teens defy the cold by wearing
as little as is legally possible.
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11/2004 |
Move
over the White Stripes: the latest American rock
duo sensation is The Dresden Dolls. Amanda Palmer
and brian Viglione have opened for Beck, Jane's
Addiction and the B-52's and scooped a bug-full
of awards in the US.
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09/2004 |
Boston duo The Dresden
Dolls are fusing weimar-era cabaret with CBGBs
attitude. Oh yeah....and they rock. When Br ian
Vigilone met Amanda Palmer durin gan impromptu
performance at a Halloween party, the scene couldn't
have been more fitting for what would be the outcome
of that chance meeting.
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09/2004 |
The most cherishable arrivals
in modern music are always the most unexpected.
Nobody could have predicted that in a year like
this - when every new band must fit into a territorially-defined,
aggressively-marketed genre, and the ever-decreasing
spiral of retro revivalism is resembling a tailspin
- that a band as genuinely original and unique
as The Dresden Dolls would fly in through a carelessly-ajar
window.
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2004 |
Dresden Dolls make songs
that sound like a soundtrack to an archly gothic,
cobwebbed version of Cabaret. We talked
to singer Amanda. "You've
got an old-fashioned look. Do you feel you were
born out of time?" I'm sure everyone fantasises
about being born in a time when they feel they
would have belonged a little better.
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