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32 releases – 6 under her own name, 14 in other groups and 12 credits on others' music Edit
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( 3 stories between 4th December 2008 and 9th March 2010 )Amanda Palmer Recruits Singer Called Cobain
Mar, 9 2010
Frances Bean Cobain applied for a restraining order against her mom Courtney Love recently, resulting in public unpleasantness between the two. But it seems that, even if her mother isn’t on her side, Amanda Palmer is. “Given her life situation, she could be totally messed up,” said Palmer, “but she actually seems like she really has her s*** together.”
The two met up following a tentative email from Palmer to Cobain, resulting in Cobain’s inclusion on Evelyn Evelyn, Palmer’s latest concept album telling the fictional story of singing conjoined-twin sisters. Unfortunately it’s impossible to tell if Frances has inherited her parents’ vocal talents, since her 3-second vocal appearance is mixed into a collage of voices on the track “My Space.” On her blog Palmer revealed her vision for the song: “Everybody took 45 seconds out of their lives and e-mailed us a file of their voice singing the same line, and we mixed it all together, gang-vocal-style.”
The finished track includes contributions from several unexpected musicians, including "Weird Al" Yankovic, Gerard Way (of My Chemical Romance) and Andrew W.K. You can hear the finished results when Evelyn Evelyn is released at the end of the month.
Amanda Palmer
Apr, 4 2009
Whatever they might hopefully claim, it's usually a musician's nightmare to be dropped by their record label: there's no surer kiss of death to a career than the withdrawal of future funding. But Dresden Dolls singer Amanda Palmer is not afraid to be unusual, as shown by her new song "Please Drop Me." There's no subtle analogy or clever story there -- she just wants to be dropped. According to an interview with Pitchfork.com, Palmer's label Roadrunner have an option to extend their deal with her in June, and she's hoping they choose not to take that option for a variety of reasons. "It's been so disappointing since my solo record came out in September," she said, "they decided to do the absolute minimum to promote it." And when they did choose to promote the single "Leeds United" by shooting a video, they then asked to cut some split-second shots of Palmer's bare midriff. "They thought I looked fat," she blogged at the time, "I thought they were on crack."
Amanda Palmer
Dec, 4 2008
Outraged supporters of Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer have grouped together in protest at reports that her record label Roadrunner deemed her ‘uncommercially fat’ in her new music video. Label execs allegedly demanded the right to cut the midriff-baring scenes from the promo for "Leeds United," and subsequently failed to promote the single sufficiently when she refused. In a show of tummy-solidarity, fans have set up the ‘Re-belly-on’ website in a bid “to protest against the 'barbie dolling' of artists by record companies and the media,” mostly by way of sending pictures of their own bellies in various conditions to Roadrunner and posting them online. The single is taken from her latest album Who Killed Amanda Palmer, released in September.
