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Amanda Palmer reacts to The Daily Mail’s infamous boob article

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COOKCD571 Amanda Palmer - Theatre Is Evil[1]After Amada’s amazing perfomance at Glastonbury, The Daily Mail newspaper published an article headlined ”  Making a boob of herself! Amanda Palmer’s breast escapes her bra as she performs on stage at Glastonbury”.

The following fortnight Amanda answered The Mail’s article in trademark Palmer fashion by writing a song about the story and performing it completely naked at London’s Roundhouse on July 12th which you can see below.

Amanda, who’s shows often include elements of nudity, played an jaw dropping gig in Dublin’s Academy on Thursday July 18th.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGPDWEjjN3Q

 

 

 

Amanda Palmer Gets Standing Ovation for TED Talk At TED2013

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Amanda Palmer Gets Standing Ovation for TED Talk At TED2013

Compares Crowd-Funding to Crowd-Surfing “When You Connect With People, They Want to Help You…

Maybe instead of asking ourselves how we can make people pay for music, we should ask ourselves how to LET them.”

Watch Amanda’s TED Talk, “The Art of Asking”, HERE.

Amanda Palmer has made an art out of crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding, making headlines last year for raising $1.2 million on Kickstarter to fund her latest album. Amanda says they are simply the modern day versions of the street-performing she did to support herself for many years as the 8ft Bride, and the couch-surfing she’s done throughout her years of touring.

“Couch-surfing and crowd-surfing are essentially the same thing. You’re falling into the audience, and asking your fans to catch you,” she notes. “So when it came time to put out my new album, I turned to crowd-funding, and I ‘fell’ into those thousands of connections I’d made and I asked my crowd to catch me.”

Moreover, she believes that the meaningful human relationships that develop from these acts –and the vulnerability they require – are as old as art itself. “For most of human history musicians and artists have been part of the community – connectors and openers, not untouchable stars. Celebrity is about a lot of people loving you from a distance. But the internet and the content we’re able to share on it is taking us back, and it’s about a few people loving you up close, and those people being enough.”

Lastly, she feels that the lessons she learned as a street performer might just solve the music biz’s current dilemma around trying to get people to pay for music: “Maybe instead of asking ourselves how we can make people pay for music, we should ask ourselves how to LET them.

Read more about Amanda’s TED experience and the reaction to her TED Talk in Long Beach this week HERE on the TED blog.

Amanda’s self-released album, Theatre Is Evil, debut in the Billboard Top 10 last September, and is available for a “pay-what-you-want” price (including free) in her web store HERE.

“…one of the year’s best rock records…” – Rolling Stone

“… exactly the kind of record that makes people love music in the first place” – SPIN

 “Theatre of Evil is genius, savvy pop” – NPR

“She juggles bravado and compassion… ” – The New York Times

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AMANDA PALMER – NEW ALBUM: THEATRE IS EVIL – OUT NOW!

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AMANDA PALMER & THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA

‘Theatre Is Evil’ (COOKCD571) First New Studio Album in Four Years! Out NOW! (from Sept 7th) 

“Palmer is set to join Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails as the artists that people tend to mention when they talk about the new music business.”   Billboard 

“Theatre is Evil is unpredictably brilliant; just when you think you have Palmer sussed across one or two tracks, along comes another one or two to overturn your preconceptions. No wonder Lady Gaga is a fan”.Irish Times ****

“The Best New Thing In The World”  The Rachel Maddow Show 

” …Ms. Palmer sings dark and jubilant songs.”  The New York Times

Singer, songwriter, piano-slayer and super-blogger Amanda Palmer has just released her first new studio album in four years, in conjunction with her new band, The Grand Theft Orchestra, featuring Michael McQuilken, Chad Raines and Jherek Bischoff. Entitled Theatre Is Evil, the album was recorded in Melbourne with producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Murder By Death, Modest Mouse, Xiu Xiu), and is out now. 

Arguably her most pop-influenced album yet, Theatre Is Evil showcases Amanda’s powerful vocals and talented songwriting in ways that may surprise even her most ardent fans. Written over the course of several years (since the release of her last studio album,Who Killed Amanda Palmer), the album offers a collection of sounds and rhythms heavily influenced by the music Palmer grew up listening to – most notably 80s synth rock and Brit Pop. From the anthemic “Do It With A Rockstar” and “Want it Back” to the mighty, horn-induced bop of “Massachusetts Avenue”, Theatre is Evil is tauntingly playful. At the same time, a more somber, vulnerable Amanda Palmer pulls at our heart strings with ballads like “Trout Heart Replica”, “Grown Man Cry”, and the pièce de résistance: “The Bed Song”, a somber, melancholy track that documents the slow deterioration of a long-term marriage.

True to form, the undisputed queen of crowd-sourcing and fan engagement enlisted her community of loyal supporters to launch her ambitious global release, selling nearly 25,000 copies of her new album in multiple formats via Kickstarter, along with a variety of unique merch items including hand-painted turntables, two different coffee table art books featuring art from the group exhibit, and numerous Amanda Palmer experiences. All told Palmer’s presales have already earned the artist over $1 million, garnering accolades from the likes of Forbes, CNNThe New York Times, and The Economist.

http://www.amandapalmer.net

AMANDA PALMER TO RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘WANT IT BACK’ ON AUG 31ST

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AMANDA PALMER TO RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘WANT IT BACK’ ON AUG 31ST

Single ‘Want It Back’ (FRYDL535)– out Aug 31st

Taken from Album ‘THEATRE IS EVIL’ (COOKCD571) Released September 7th

 Singer, songwriter, piano-slayer, and blogger Amanda Palmer is preparing to release her first studio album in four years, Theatre Is Evil, on September 7th. This is the first release with her new band The Grand Theft Orchestra. The album release will be preceded by the single Want it Back on Aug 31st, and followed by a tour in Autumn.

Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra unleashed the new Want It Back music video on the Guardian website, offering another taste from the new album, Theatre is Evil.  The video is a stop-motion animated video created with Australian director Jim Batt, and shot in Melbourne when Palmer and her band were recording the new album this past spring. The video continues a strong visual art theme, incorporating her naked body as a canvas for hand-painted lyrics to unfold across the screen.

Body politics, and body pride, have always been a strong theme for Amanda: “I’m so comfortable being naked at this point that I almost forget… I’m also proud that that video has nudity, but it isn’t sexual or erotic…. it’s using the body as a raw canvas, which I love.”

“I’ve never made a video with such a small, concentrated art-crew, and it was magic,” she notes. “For three days straight it was just me, Jim, the tattoo-graffiti artist Curran James, and a painstaking process as we created the video, shot by shot by shot.” Jim Batt explains, “”Hand crafting a film frame-by-frame is always an intense experience, even more so when you’re using someone’s body as a canvas, but there’s something magical about stopmotion that you can’t capture any other way. I’m still impressed that we managed to get Amanda to sit still for that long, she was a champion!”

“Jim Batt is a visionary film artist, and I hope this video shines some light on the art-talent that’s hiding out in Melbourne,” says Palmer. “That city is harbouring some of the best creative minds in the world.”

www.amandapalmer.net / www.cookingvinyl.com

Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra: First New Studio Album in Four Years! ‘Theatre Is Evil’ (COOKCD571) Released Sept 7th

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First New Studio Album in Four Years! ‘Theatre Is Evil’ (COOKCD571) Released Sept 7th

“Palmer is set to join Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails as the artists that people tend to mention when they talk about the new music business.”  Billboard

” …Ms. Palmer sings dark and jubilant songs.”  The New York Times

Singer, songwriter, piano-slayer and super-blogger Amanda Palmer is preparing to release her first new studio album in four years, in conjunction with her new band, The Grand Theft Orchestra, featuring Michael McQuilken, Chad Raines and Jherek Bischoff. Entitled Theatre Is Evil, the album was recently recorded in Melbourne with producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Murder By Death, Modest Mouse, Xiu Xiu), and is due out in September.

Arguably her most pop-influenced album yet, Theatre Is Evil showcases Amanda’s powerful vocals and talented songwriting in ways that may surprise even her most ardent fans. Written over the course of several years (since the release of her last studio album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer), the album offers a collection of sounds and rhythms heavily influenced by the music Palmer grew up listening to – most notably 80s synth rock and Brit Pop. From the anthemic “Do It With A Rockstar” and “Want it Back” to the mighty, horn-induced bop of “Massachusetts Avenue”, Theatre is Evil is tauntingly playful. At the same time, a more somber, vulnerable Amanda Palmer pulls at our heart strings with ballads like “Trout Heart Replica”, “Grown Man Cry”, and the pièce de résistance: “The Bed Song”, a somber, melancholy track that documents the slow deterioration of a long-term marriage.

True to form, the undisputed queen of crowd-sourcing and fan engagement enlisted her community of loyal supporters to launch her ambitious global release, selling nearly 25,000 copies of her new album in multiple formats via Kickstarter, along with a variety of unique merch items including hand-painted turntables, two different coffee table art books featuring art from the group exhibit, and numerous Amanda Palmer experiences. All told Palmer’s presales have already earned the artist over $1 million, garnering accolades from the likes of Forbes, CNN, The New York Times, and The Economist.

Via The Guardian: New music: Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra – Want It Back

Here’s your chance to watch Amanda Palmer, in her new video, using her body as a canvas for her lyrics

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