Video: Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra - Want It Back (Uncensored)

What do you get when you give Amanda Palmer $1.2 million and complete creative control? Gold. As one half of the punk piano cabaret duo Dresden Dolls and as one half of Evelyn Evelyn, Amanda Palmer had a thriving musical career long before she went solo. But solo albums unlocked a new room in the cramped, creative attic of Palmer's brain. Suddenly her songs and her sound had space to live and grow, to stretch in unimaginable ways -- like the kid performing on buckets downtown being handed keys to a...

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Thanks to Amanda Palmer for guest editing our website all week. Be sure to check out her latest album, Theatre Is Evil. Watch the video for “Want It Back” below.

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If you ignore the nipples, this is actually rather good.  Not being particularly familiar with Ms. Palmer , I assumed she was just, you know, yet another breathy, girly, away-with-the-fairies singer-songwriter.  Having heard this, and having made the connection between her name and the fantastic Map Of Tasmania I heard a while back, I wish I'd jumped on the million-dollar-plus Kickstarter campaign bandwagon.  The album from that massive influx of funds is called Theatre Is Evil , and will get it's uk release through Cooking Vinyl . Great typography in [...]

When AFP comes to SF, it's a BFD. Amanda Palmer , whose name is often abbreviated as AFP (give you one guess as to what the F stands for), is adored in San Francisco, a city full of (as she put it during her Public Works appearance on July 13th) "special snowflakes". San Franciscans have a long history of gravitating toward the fringes of art, in which Palmer, if she wasn't before, is now staunchly entrenched. Check out any tech blog worth its salt and you might find some recent results for Amanda Palmer: her Kickstarter [...]

Incoming: Gary Lucas, Frank Ocean, Peter Case, Trash Talk, Amanda Palmer, Adam Lambert, Al Green, Nick 13, Fountains of Wayne, Bloomfest, Ray Davies, Smokey Robinson, Ringo Starr, the Ettes, the Happy Hollows, more. Above: The uncensored, NSFW video for Amanda Palmer's "Want It Back." You've been warned. The pop provocateur and Kickstarter sensation visits the Roxy Theatre on Thursday; her new album "Theater Is Evil is out Sept. 11. Our staff picks of the week: [...]

Check out the first-ever video from Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra for their new song “Want It Back” and don’t miss her on the upcoming tour in support of Theatre is Evil.

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I've never been in love with Amanda Palmer's music (maybe I've never given her a fair shake), but I can't help but respect the trailblazing chanteuse's ability to balance her forward thinking business sensibilities with her artistic endeavors. Most recently her Kickstarter campaign made headlines as it shattered expectation, skyrocketing past the goal of $100,000 before finally coming to rest at nearly $1.2 million as the clock expired. Here, the video for "Want it Back" falls as one of the first samples of what's to come from the resulting fan-backed project, Theatre is Evil . [...]