In semi-music related news, it appears that Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley are performing together as conjoined twins. I haven't heard any of their work, but Annaham at the feminist disability blog, FWD, has a good post on the cultural work of using the conjoined twin as a figure of intrigue. Read it here .
First of all: Jason Webley is responsible for the best show of which I've ever heard. Webley and friends staged a guerrilla concert at a Safeway. Look at photos of the show while you read the desc... Continue reading "Jason Webley & Amanda Palmer are conjoined twins joined by famous friends" >
Vi abbiamo raccontato pochi giorni fa dei due nuovi 'figli d'arte' che stanno seguendo le orme dei genitori. C'è un terzo nome in arrivo ed è quello probabilmente più atteso. Nonostante non abbia ancora ufficialmente dichiarato di volere intraprendere la carriera di musicista, ha già prestato la sua voce per un brano. Stiamo parlando di Frances Bean , figlia di Kurt Cobain dei Nirvana e Courtney Love delle Hole che, mentre la mamma è alle prese con la reunion della sua band storica , [...]
So between a blizzard of insane proportions striking the east coast,my real life entering an incredibly busy period, and the usual malaise of things getting in the way, I've been derelict in my blogging duties. Since I have several hours now where I can sit and take care of all the things that have fallen by the wayside these past few days, I'm gonna use this time to try to catch up on stuff I haven't gotten to talk about lately. First, I've begun a tradition where once a year when there's significant snow fall, I offer up [...]
Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance , Franz Nicoley (ex- The Hold Steady ), Andrew W.K. and Kurt Cobain 's daughter Frances Cobain are among the guests on the debut from Evelyn Evelyn , the new project from Amanda Palmer of Dresden Dolls and Jason Webley. Yahoo Music! is reporting the project who will release their self-titled debut on March 30. Some music and tour dates can be found on their MySpace page .
Frances Bean Cobain didn't exactly finish out the last decade with a smile on her face. Four years after Courtney Love regained custody of Frances Bean following an alleged 2003 Oxycontin overdose , Courtney lost custody of the 17-year-old Frances Bean again in late December of last year. A few days later, Frances Bean filed a restraining order against her wayward mother. Needless to say, Christmas at the Cobain/Love household must've been a bummer . Luckily, it looks as if Frances is already busying herself to avoid [...]
If there is a surefire way to make yourself feel your age, hearing the news Francis Bean Cobain is to make her singing debut on an upcoming Amanda Palmer project has got to be it. Anyone old enough to remember the early 90s will find this equally intriguing and surreal, while those younger have no idea who I am talking about. Either way, the rock and roll royalty's vocals aren't even the most interesting aspect of this story! According to TwentyFourBit , March 30th will mark the release of a collaborative album from Dresden Dolls' [...]
Tonight, Berklee's Café 939 hosts two enchanting, dynamic acts. Locals Jaggery (above) call themselves a "torture chamber pop ensemble." Piano, viola and harp anchor their full, orchestrated sound, at once macabre and breathtaking. They're joined by multi-instrumentalist and circus composer Sxip Shirey , who returns to Boston after playing the Pops on New Year's Eve with Amanda Palmer. He calls his style "a confusion of [...]
Good morning! Pink is set to appear on Oprah today, and if we're lucky, the entire interview will follow the lead of her death-defying Grammy performance and take place upside down hanging from the ceiling. If she can sing with all the blood rushing to her head, chit-chatting with Oprah should be a breeze. For now, onto the mix: Did You Hear? :: Attention! Taylor Swift is not dating Glee star Cory Montieth . She is also not [...]
Filed under: News , New Releases Bizarre musical collaborations are nothing new -- just check the pairing of David Bowie and Bing Crosby for evidence -- but 2010 has just thrown up one of the best. According to Twentyfourbit.com , Frances Bean Cobain -- the daughter of Courtney Love and the late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain -- is set to make her singing debut on a track that includes contributions from My Chemical Romance 's Gerard Wa y, [...]
The emancipated daughter of Courtney Love and a guy named Kurt will sing her first song (on record) with the aforementioned folks on a song called "My Space" for Amanda Palmer's new project Evelyn Evelyn.
Evelyn Evelyn--a duo featuring Dresden Dolls frontwoman Amanda Palmer and collaborator Jason Webley--have revealed that they will release their debut full-length on March 30 via Eleven Records...
Here's a piece of news that was perhaps inevitable—Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, is about to make her recording debut. These have been strange times for Frances Bean, who has recently become estranged from her mother, and now looks set to begin a career of her own. Fortunately, her singing debut is suitably subdued. Frances Bean will appear as part of a "gang" of singers on the new album by Dresden Dolls frontwoman (and hyper-active Tweeter ) Amanda Palmer. The song featuring Frances Bean also includes contributions from [...]
MP3: Evelyn Evelyn - "Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn? Put this in the category of weird. Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley have "discovered" a new conjoined twin act, Evelyn Evelyn . The duo (actually an elaborately costumed Palmer and Webley) are prepared to release their debut self-titled album on March 30th via Eleven Records. The band will tour in Europe around the time of the record's release, but they should be back in North America shortly thereafter. All currently scheduled tour dates are below (and there's an MP3 sample [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen! Critics and hipsters! We are proud to introduce "Evelyn Evelyn" - the world's only conjoined-twin singer-songwriter duo. Discovered and launched by punk-cabaret queen Amanda Palmer (The Dresden Dolls) and endless minstrel Jason Webley, Evelyn Evelyn is one of the most anticipated acts of 2010. After three full years in the studio, the Evelyn sisters are gearing up for a world tour in support of their debut album which hits the shelves on March 30th on Eleven Records. Epic in scope and production, the twelve tracks on "Evelyn Evelyn" showcase [...]
Amanda Palmer is back. No it's not the new Dresden Dolls album that people have been craving. Instead it's a new project with Jason Webley called Evelyn Evelyn. The premise of the fictional pair is that they are the "world's first conjoined-twin singer-songwriter duo". They have a new 12-song self-titled debut album coming out on March 30th. The album apparently includes a ukulele-based
Hey, remember that new Amanda Palmer record we were telling you about? The one where her and her friend pretend to be a pair of conjoined twins called EVELYN EVELYN? This just in: it's apparently... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
Nine months ago, I launched this site not knowing how it would be received, but I'm happy to say that January was our biggest month yet with nearly 30,000 music lovers from across the world exploring some great new songs. Back in December, we went on winter hiatus, so I thought it made sense to combine the past two months into one Rewind. Here are the 43 MP3s from new and upcoming releases we featured in December and January in one two convenient .zip file downloads: [tweetmeme] Click here [...]
Time for my belated and bloated annual look back at the past year... yes, we're mere hours away from February, but I started a dangerous precedent last year when I posted my year-end review at the end of January. Last year saw a dramatic drop in my post count, less than half the posts of 2008 and my lowest total since 2006. I partially blame the lingering effect of that blogger crackdown, but another contributing factor is the new job I started around the same time in late '08. Now I'm more or less happy with one [...]
I'm headed to LA for the New Music Seminar on Tuesday. Tickets will be available at the door and I hope to see you there. Please grab me in the halls for an intro. Much of the action in the music industry this week took place in Cannes, France at the MIDEM international music conference. Hypebot was there: Attendance was down 13% , but many new features were a [...]
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