在2000年的萬聖節晚會上，帕爾默認識了鼓手布萊恩·維廖內。在此之後兩人組成德勒斯登玩偶組合。為了積累表演經驗和默契，帕爾默邀請萊克星頓高中的學生在她的現場演出中表演鼓樂。The Dirty Business Brigade，一批經驗豐富的新藝術家參與了多場演出。在演出開始前和演出進行時，受邀穿著戲服的角色在觀眾人群中互動，有時退役軍人團體也加入到這精心設置的舞台表演中。真人大小的木偶、投硬幣的男孩、活雕像和其他特別喜歡秘密製作影片的人，以滑稽的馬戲團式的表演歡迎歌迷來到音樂會，創造出一種觀眾同時切身體驗各種藝術的氛圍。
她的第一張個人專輯，由本·福特製作的誰殺了阿曼達·帕爾默於2008年9月16日發行。[26]Ben Folds produced and also played on the album.[27][25]這個標題使用了在「雙峰鎮」首次播出時，歌迷們喜愛的一種表達方式——「誰殺了蘿拉·帕爾默」。在2009年7月發行的一本書上有一張帕爾默的照片，看似她被謀殺了。這本書是一本攝影照片集，標題為「誰殺了阿曼達·帕爾默」，它由凱爾·卡西迪拍攝，尼爾·蓋曼編著，其中包含了她專輯中的歌詞。
在演唱會期間，帕爾默使用烏克麗麗來作為惡作劇，但是很快烏克麗麗成為了她演奏的一部分。後來，她做了一張專輯：專輯中歌曲都是用烏克麗麗做伴奏的，阿曼達·帕爾默用她神奇的烏克麗麗演奏收音機頭的流行歌曲。現在她有時在公共場所，開展面向所有年齡人的免費演出。[32] She sometimes performs during free ninja gigs in public locations, open to all ages.[33]
在2012年11月9日，阿曼達·帕爾默在烈焰紅唇的網站上，發行了第一個音樂視頻，這首歌是專輯《劇院是魔鬼》中的「Do it With a Rockstar」。這個視頻是由烈焰紅唇的主唱韋恩·科因指導並共同製作的。[39]後來又公開了「The Killing Type」和「The Bed Song」的視頻。[39]
在帕爾默和Roadrunner公司的長期鬥爭和她不斷的請求與之解約後，帕爾默宣布：Roadrunner唱片公司最終與她解約。她用一另首新歌來表達她的感激之情：「你是否發誓要說實話，全部實情只有真相才能幫你」，這首歌可以自由下載，來慶祝她重獲自由。在澳大利亞音樂遊戲節目Spicks and Specks上，她再次重申這件事情。
then a remarkable thing happened. the people who hated the poem started writing THEIR OWN POEMS, sometimes in sloppy haiku form, sometimes in limerick form, sometimes copying the stream-of-consciousness format of the poem i had posted... and then: someone told me it was national poetry month. and i thought: this is amazing. when was the last time a thousand people argued about a stupid poem? or shared so many poems about something bad that had happened? not any time recently, that i can remember."
Shanahan, Mark; Meredith Goldstein. Palmer hangs out in Lexington. Boston Globe. May 11, 2009 [February 19, 2010]. （原始內容存檔於2016-03-04）. 引文使用過時參數coauthors (幫助)
Chinen, Nate; photos by Hiroyuki Ito. Power to the People (and Some Pop Too). The New York Times. June 20, 2007: B1, B5 [November 9, 2007]. ISSN 0362-4331. （原始內容存檔於2007-10-12）. A much more musical brand of theatricality animated the Dresden Dolls, a duo consisting of the pianist Amanda Palmer and the drummer Brian Viglione. Their set was a concise demonstration of cabaret-punk. Ms. Palmer, singing throatily at an electric keyboard, held her own not only on the band staple “Coin-Operated Boy” but also even amid the bombast of “War Pigs,” the Black Sabbath screed.引文使用過時參數coauthors (幫助)
The Onion Cellar. americanrepertorytheater.org. American Repertory Theatre. [December 3, 2007]. （原始內容存檔於2007-10-12）. Inside the small confines of the mysterious club The Onion Cellar, the internationally renowned rock duo The Dresden Dolls provides nightly entertainment while a series of stories unfold around them. As singer, songwriter, and keyboardist Amanda Palmer and drummer Brian Viglione play their songs, the Onion Cellar becomes a space where rock and roll meets cabaret with humor and humanity.World Premiere.
On The Download editors; photo by Kelly Davidson. Dresden Dolls take the ART. On The Download. 2005-04-20 [2006-08-21]. （原始內容存檔於2006-05-23）. The Dresden Dolls are taking the world by storm. This punk cabaret duo from Boston are incredible musicians whose smart, personal, intricate songs and mesmerizing live performance have earned them a cult following. Now don't tell anyone, but there's a rumor that the Dolls may be appearing at a bizarre underground club somewhere in Cambridge – an Onion Cellar, where the audience peel onions for emotional release, where you never quite know who's sitting next to you, where your life could change forever.
Eichler, Jeremy. All dolled up at the Pops – Palmer brings the edge but the fest needs more. The Boston Globe. 2008-06-20. （原始內容存檔於June 27, 2008）. Last night in Symphony Hall, Amanda Palmer brought some spark and much-needed edge to the Boston Pops's EdgeFest. On her own terms, Palmer, in strong gravelly voice, gave a richly satisfying performance that had this crowd roaring far more than most in Symphony Hall. But even she couldn't overcome the deeper tensions that make the EdgeFest a strained format.
Smith, Rachel. All Dolled up, Amanda Palmer and the Boston Pops, Symphony Hall, June 19, 2008. The Boston Phoenix. June 20, 2008 [June 28, 2008]. （原始內容存檔於2021-01-27）. Last night, Amanda Palmer kicked off this season of the Boston Pops EdgeFest, the orchestra's collaboration with younger, "edgier" bands and performers drawing the iPod generation into Symphony Hall. The choice of pairing Palmer with the Pops lead me to wonder if the Pops had ever listened to a Dresden Dolls album or seen The Onion Cellar or, you know, met her.
Palmer, Amanda. The Dresden Doll's Forum. Speculation: Solo Album Title. The Dresden Dolls. 2007-04-01 [2007-12-08]. （原始內容存檔於2020-07-23）. ... i am recording the solo album....in nashville, at ben folds' studio, with ben, who is producing the record and playing on it.
Palmer, Amanda. fish/people/belly. The Dresden Dolls Diary. May 10, 2008 [May 10, 2008]. （原始內容存檔於2008-05-13）. the solo record got re-mastered and it's.....mind-blowing. it's so good. it's sooooooo gooooooooooooooooooooooood. so i feel safe in a deep way. because as long as the record is amazing then I can fuck everything else up and it's technically ok. it will be released September 16. that is now like Christmas day for me. it is four months away. that seems long.
Dresden Doll Preps Solo Debut. spin.com music for life. spin.com. April 25, 2007 [December 8, 2007]. （原始內容存檔於2007-12-13）. The Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer chats with SPIN.com about her forthcoming solo effort.
Ratliff, Ben. Festival Rocks in Two Time Zones: The Real and the Virtual. The New York Times. April 21, 2009: B1 [April 25, 2009]. ISSN 0362-4331. （原始內容存檔於October 6, 2015）. For some reason crowd-surfing was especially viral this year. On Friday Matt Shultz of Cage the Elephant, a young Kentucky rock band just back from a quick coronation in the English press, made it all the way out to the back of the crowd, aloft on his hands. It was a spectacle that lost its novelty over the weekend, as seen in subsequent sets by Thievery Corporation, Amanda Palmer, Public Enemy (Flavor Flav did it three times) and Pink Eyes, from the Toronto punk band with an unprintable name, which played one of the weekend's most committed sets.
Palmer, Amanda. With The Needle That Sings In Her Heart. amandapalmer.net. [December 27, 2010]. （原始內容存檔於2010-12-12）. AMANDA PALMER–celebrated punk-chanteuse and pianist for the popular rock band THE DRESDEN DOLLS, and, more recently, hailed for the success of her Ben Folds-produced solo album Who Killed Amanda Palmer–is returning to her old stomping grounds at alma mater LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL. The reason? To create an original play with her former drama teacher, STEVEN BOGART along with a cast of twenty students. The play is written from scratch by the ensemble, the content of which is inspired by the music and lyrics of the critically hailed album, 'In the Aeroplane Over The Sea' by celebrated indie rock band NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL.
Artsy, Avishay. Neutral Milk Hotel Album Transformed For Stage: NPR. [December 27, 2010]. （原始內容存檔於November 19, 2010）. 'I watch people proselytize this record all over the world, and it's like this secret brotherhood of awesome music that's never had any kind of big mainstream publicity,' Palmer says. 'It's just this sacred record that people connect through.'
Ben Sisario. Eddie Vedder, Amanda Palmer and Magnetic Fields Join Ukulele Craze. The New York Times New York (The New York Times Company). November 17, 2011: 9, Arts & LEISURE section [November 17, 2011]. ISSN 0362-4331. OCLC 1645522. A few years ago, as a one-off concert gag, Ms. Palmer strummed a uke as she sang Radiohead's 'Creep', accompanying herself on a $19 model she had bought the day before. But the performance turned out to be so starkly intense it could not remain a joke. So she began taking a ukulele everywhere, and before long she had recorded a full album: 'Amanda Palmer Performs the Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele', released last year. That Ms. Palmer absorbed the basics in a day – her usual instrument is the piano – indicates one of the ukulele's great advantages: it's so easy to learn that it's said to be almost impossible to play it badly. Even when slightly off key, it serves as a blank canvas that can accent the character of any voice. And in the right hands, it can strip a song to its skeletal core... As Ms. Palmer sees it, the ukulele is the zeitgeist instrument for the D.I.Y. age. 'This is the age of the democratization of music,' she says. 'Anyone can be a musician. And in a recession, when you have a $20 instrument and there's a big musical renaissance, anyone will want to join in.'
Palmer, Amanda. Shoveling Out. amandapalmer.net. December 22, 2009 [May 16, 2011]. （原始內容存檔於2011年7月21日）. we wonder if she’s cashing in on the recent cultural bi-manic 'girls gone wild' obsession
Twitter Feed. Contests.thephoenix.com LXXVI (16) (The Phoenix Media/Communications Group). April 13, 2012: 24 [April 15, 2012]. （原始內容存檔於2013-02-04）. BEST TWITTER FEED @AmandaPalmer When we nominated AMANDA PALMER for "Best Twitter Feed," nobody asked us the obvious question: "Which one?" She's on the Twitterz so much that she's now got at least two. But the mothership, @AmandaPalmer, is the half-million-follower-strong engine of her virality and vitality. From it, YouTube uke covers of Rebecca Black songs go platinum; kickstarter campaigns sell out; impromptu Australian streetcorner busks turn into flash mobs; Friday night boredom turns into hashtag-driven e-commerce success stories, and, occasionally, lyrics for new songs are crowdsourced. Twenty tweets is a slow day for Ms. Palmer, who has never met an at-reply she couldn't respond to with a gentle quip, a lick of encouragement, or an all-caps gasp of amazement. Unless you're dumb enough to put her famous husband on a list of unsexy celebrities – in which case (trust us), look out. http://twitter.com/amandapalmer
Boston Best's 2011 Judges. Actress in a local production – Amanda Palmer in Cabaret at the American Repertory Theater. The Improper Bostonian (Boston, Massachusetts: Improper Publication, Inc.). July 8–26, 2011: 88 [July 11, 2011]. （原始內容存檔於2011-09-27）. Actress in a local production Amanda Palmer in Cabaret at the American Repertory Theater An alumna of Lexington High School and the local experimental rock scene, Amanda Palmer hit a high note with her 2010 turn as the Emcee in the Steven Bogart–directed production of Cabaret at the A.R.T. "There was much more of an improvisational playground for the Emcee," says Palmer, on why she chose to play the glowering, androgynous role. Her creative genius (and social media prowess—she has over 500,000 Twitter followers) has earned her a worldwide following as a street performer, Dresden Doll, solo artist and now as a risk-taking stage actress.
Spinner Staff; photo by Sarah Komar, WireImage. Women Who Rock Right Now: No. 6. spinner.com. July 15, 2007 [December 8, 2007]. （原始內容存檔於2013-05-08）. Who: Amanda Palmer Birthplace: Lexington, Mass. Sound: Cabaret punk Palmer – one-half of Boston's Brechtian punk cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls – ain't no damsel in distress. The former street artist chokeholds her demons, teetering between sinister screeches and whimsical whispers of alcohol, self-mutilation and sexual exploration, while discordantly pummeling the piano – stocking-clad legs akimbo – in a sultry, sinful self-deprecation exorcism.
Christopher Muther. Boston's Stylish 25. Boston Globe. 2006-11-01 [2007-12-08]. （原始內容存檔於2016-03-04）. Dresden Dolls lead singer Amanda Palmer, quite literally, has a rockstar wardrobe.
Mike Errico. Hottest Women of...Rock!. Blender.com. December 2006 [December 8, 2007]. （原始內容存檔於2007-02-10）. Amanda Palmer – The pianist and singer of Brechtian Boston duo Dresden Dolls mashes up punk rock and cabaret, sings about transsexuals and explores the elaborate deceptions that alcoholics commit daily.
Half Jack. Amanda Palmer. bestuff.com. [December 8, 2007]. （原始內容存檔於2008年1月5日）. In the 2005 WFNX /Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll, Palmer won Best Female Vocalist.
The Dresden Dolls. ThoughtWorthy Media, Inc. [December 7, 2007]. （原始內容存檔於2007年9月27日）. In the 2005 WFNX/Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll The Dresden Dolls won Best Local Act and Best Local Album. Amanda Palmer also won Best Female Vocalist.
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