Amanda Palmer

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Palmer Goes Pops, Lockhart Goes Punk!

Thumbnail image for Palmer Goes Pops, Lockhart Goes Punk! by Bryce Lambert January 2, 2010

The Amanda Palmer/Pops concert made for probably the best New Year’s Eve I’ve ever had. Her set, including such popular selections from her Dresden Dolls and solo material as Missed Me, Runs in the Family, Coin-Operated Boy, and Leeds United, though short, was utterly spectacular. Palmer’s music has a unique quality of retaining a vintageness, [...]

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The Docket: New Year’s Eve

Thumbnail image for The Docket: New Year’s Eve by Bryce Lambert December 30, 2009

For me, New Year’s Eve was between Boston Baroque’s Mozart and Cimarosa double-bill and the Boston Pops concert with Amanda Palmer, because First Night is kind of for the kids, if I saw Dane Cook I don’t think I’d make it to 2010, and I’m not really interested in pretending I’m a celebrity for a [...]