Former Dresden Dolls singer has smashed all records on crowd-funding site Kickstarter full story ![]()

Morrissey hasn't had a record deal since 2009, so singer Amanda Palmer has offered to petition his fans for money to release a new album.
telegraph.co.uk (25 days ago)

Amanda Palmer has penned an open letter to Morrissey on Salon urging the singer to try crowdfunding as a way to fund and release new music after the former Smiths frontman has said he was having trouble finding a new record label "You have some of the most fanatical fans in the...
rollingstone.com (25 days ago)
I first “met” Amanda Palmer in 1997 - though I didn’t know her name - when I was a graduate student walking past her as an “8 Foot Bride” living statue in Harvard Square. She earned up to $20 per show – not bad for a performance artist, but a total she bested quite handily 15 years later, when she raised $1.2 million for her new music album from nearly 25,000 fans with her...
forbes.com (15 days ago)

Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft Orchestra just released their newest video for "The Bed Song," a single off their Kickstarter-backed album, "Theatre is Evil." Get ready to shed some tears, fans, because this one's heart-wrenching: The work was directed by Michael McQuilken and shot on the property of Bard College last year. Describing her devastatingly sad video, Palmer...
huffingtonpost.com (3 months and 9 days ago)
Instead of asking fans to buy music, Palmer says, "Let them."
pastemagazine.com (2 months and 24 days ago)

"You’re one of the best candidates on the planet to use crowdfunding, because of who you are and what you mean," writes the indie artist who famously raised more than $1 million for her latest album and tour.
hollywoodreporter.com (25 days ago)
Amanda Palmer's TED talk, which has caused quite a bit of Internet buzz, is called Amanda Palmer and the Art of Asking. I like to think of it more as a talk about connecting rather than asking.
forbes.com (2 months and 19 days ago)

Amanda Palmer, oft-criticized proponent of
spin.com (2 months and 22 days ago)

The former lead singer for the Dresden Dolls, Amanda Palmer, is no virgin when it comes to controversy she’s certainly committed to her share. She finds herself the center of the un-adoring public when she...
examiner.com (30 days ago)

Amanda Palmer delved into the roots of her crowdfunding strategies earlier this week in a TED talk titled "The Art of Asking" Recounting her days as a street performer and the twinge of shame she felt when people shouted at her to get a job Palmer discussed how the couchsurfing...
rollingstone.com (2 months and 24 days ago)
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