Notes on Unbusted and the Dresden Dolls
By JIM SULLIVAN | May 6, 2008
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If you liked what we had to say about the BILLIONAIRES a couple of weeks back in “Cellars” and you’ve already worked your way through the band’s debut, then we have some good news for you: the album recorded in 2005 by UNBUSTED — the Martha’s Vineyard core of the Billionaires — has indeed seen the light of day. We got confirmation this week from Mark Kates of Fenway Recordings that, though he hasn’t released You Are Young as a proper CD, the Paul Kolderie–produced 14-track disc is available digitally from iTunes. There’s also a “new” Unbusted four-song EP for sale at the band’s MySpace site. . . . Those of you who are counting down the days till the May 20 release of No, Virginia . . . (Roadrunner) — the DRESDEN DOLLS’ 11-track collection of outtakes and rarities, with their version of the Psychedelic Furs’ “Pretty in Pink” as well as five new songs — may want to consider pre-ordering the disc. If you go to the Dolls’ Web site (www.dresdendolls.com), you can enter a contest to win that little toy piano Amanda Palmer plays in the “Coin-Operated Boy” video, as well as tickets to any of the Dolls’ headlining shows on their upcoming tour. None of those shows is in Boston, and you’ve gotta pay your own way. But Palmer will be back in Boston for a home-town show with the Boston Pops on June 19 at Symphony Hall. It’s part of the Pops “EdgeFest,” and tickets are bound to go fast.
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Boston muisc news: April 13, 2007, Boston music news: August 10, 2007, Rock-and-roll circus, More 
- Boston muisc news: April 13, 2007
The working title for Amanda Palmer's solo album is Who Killed Amanda Palmer? , but the Dresden Doll says she’s toying with another: That’s Amanda Fucking Palmer to You .
- Boston music news: August 10, 2007
The Dresden Dolls played Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors” tour this summer.
- Rock-and-roll circus
“We’ll fuck up a lot, that’s just the way it is,” said the evening’s MC/entertainer, Sxip Shirey, adding that everyone in the crowd should “feel free to fart.”
- Crying game
The Onion Cellar that Amanda Palmer envisioned is not the one that the ART will present at Zero Arrow Theatre.
- Tracks of her tears
There are tears but no onions in The Onion Cellar. But who needs emotionally catalytic root vegetables when you have the Dresden Dolls?
- Boston music news: March 16, 2007
Amanda Palmer may be the public face of Dresden Dolls, but drummer BRIAN VIGLIONE is no shrinking violet.
- Sex, clubs and rock ’n’ roll
The first thing you’d have noticed about the Dresden Dolls’ CD-release show at the Orpheum April 21 was how different it felt to be seated in a theater while the duo played.
- Growing pains
So much has happened for the Dresden Dolls over the past year that it’s no surprise the duo fared so well in this year’s Best Music Poll.
- The Dresden Dolls
No, Virginia ranks with Elvis Costello’s Taking Liberties as a B-sides/leftovers album that turns out to be more fun and more revealing than a thought-out official release.
- Amanda Palmer + Jason Webley
She owned them, and she sold me. I’ve got a new old band to check out.
- All Dolled up
Last night, Amanda Palmer kicked off this season of the Boston Pops EdgeFest.
- Less
Topics:
New England Music News
, Mark Kates, The Psychedelic Furs, Boston Pops Orchestra
