Amanda Palmer 🎹

👋 ➡️Mother, lover, bestselling author, TED speaker & crowdfunded art/music maker, cofounder @dresdendolls.

[Amanda Palmer 🎹 @amandapalmer]

Man the hits just keep on coming this month. Dolly Parton. A lesson to me, as a songwriter, for sure. I was raised to see her as an object of scorn and ridicule - she was the butt of jokes among the mean and sexist fourth grade boys I ached to impress - and slowly, over the course of decades, I realized she was one of the most powerful and self-possessed songwriters, entertainers and bridge-builders of the last and current century.

My friends and I talk about her a lot, about her careful navigation of the slippery slope in Trump��s America.

How she sided with humanity. How she kept working hard and kept her sense of humor. How she refused to apologize for what she found beautiful. How she maintained her integrity, her very dolly-ness through time and never tried to impress anybody but her awe-struck inner child. She wrote countless bitching and tear-jerking tunes and she was never, ever mean-spirited.

Never a hater.

Fitting that I would get this news at the airport with my own instrument in hand, ready to go tour and try to use my voice for some semblance of good. Every songwriter who leaves, leaves a mark in our hearts and keeps traveling through time and space…she’ll last a long time, this one.

My favorite Dolly Parton quote of all time:

“Is that your real hair?”

“If I bought it with my own money, then it’s my real hair."

….in other words: stop judging me, shut up and love me.

Thank you for your service, Dolly Parton, to humanity, to the world of art and feminism and show business, to book readers everywhere…

We will always love you.

♥️♥️♥️

[Amanda Palmer 🎹 @amandapalmer]

Heart shattered. I met Glen Hansard when he was opening for Eddie Vedder in Melbourne and we shared a stage. He was a soul-scraper of a songwriter, a breath-exploding powerhouse on any stage...he strummed the guitar like he was killing something; he played and sang with this whole body, he shook the audience awake. Rest in music, Glen, you inspired me, you will never be forgotten. https://t.co/9jtL3NNjh8

[SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra]

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[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

AMAZING: Rock Star Olivia Rodrigo will Fund Planned Parenthood, Black Mamas Matter, and these other organizations with her ticket sales from her Daisy Chain Fields Festival in Irvine, CA next month after Republicans defunded Planned Parenthood:

- National Institute for Reproductive Health
- Center for Reproductive Rights
- FreeFrom
- Jhpiego
- Baby2Baby
- Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health
- National Domestic Workers Alliance
- National Women’s Law Center

BRAVO!

[allan amato @allanamato]

When I was starting out, I listened to @DresdenDolls obsessively. From book covers to album art, @amandapalmer and I have been at it for 15 mad years. The Art Life ain’t easy, but having a collaborator at her level sure helps. https://t.co/L1D7omlIeK

[Amanda Palmer 🎹 @amandapalmer]

@QMel @findingcoco ♥️🔥♥️

[Amanda Palmer 🎹 @amandapalmer]

Sometimes it can take years to burn what needs to be burned.
Presenting “Death Thing”: my first official music video in seven years (yes, it’s been that long).
Featuring @findingcoco. Edited by James Dell. https://t.co/7RUaOnYYPe

[Amanda Palmer 🎹 @amandapalmer]

I can't wait to play this stuff live. I'm on tour soon, solo & with @DresdenDolls all info/tickets at https://t.co/3C42lKpbHq:
Wed, July 29 - Padua, Italy - Anfitheatro del Venda
Thu, Aug 6 - Stockholm, Sweden - Slaktkyrkan
Sat, Aug 8 - Hamburg, Germany

[Amanda Palmer 🎹 @amandapalmer]

The only thing I want to share today, and it brought me to tears. He went there.

My fellow Americans, I love you. May you feel the weight and fire of our collective responsibility today.

https://t.co/QRQztgr7oc

[The Dresden Dolls @DresdenDolls]

Listen now: https://t.co/6pqOVXr1De

[The Dresden Dolls @DresdenDolls]

PRESENTING: MODERN MOONLIGHT(just as advertised). 🌖🌗🌘🌑

The new version from the new recording; we recorded it from scratch again, and we think it sounds possibly sicker than the original.

The band will own these new masters forever, so make sure you listen to this version, from “Yes, Virginia…(Tailor’s Version)” when you stream. The entire album drops later this summer. Pre-save, order on vinyl/CD, and come see the band SLAY on tour:

Tues, Sept 1, 2026 - Vienna, AT
Wed, Sept 2, 2026 - Warsaw, PL
Fri, Sept 4, 2026- Prague, CZ
Sat, Sept 5, 2026 - Berlin, DE
Mon, Sept 7, 2026 - Utrecht, NL
Tues, Sept 8, 2026 - Paris, FR
Thu, Sept 10, 2026 - Manchester, UK
Fri, Sept 11, 2026 - London, UK
Sat, Oct 3, 2026 - Los Angeles, CA 
Tues, Oct 6, 2026 - Sacramento, CA
Wed, Oct 7, 2026 - San Francisco, CA 
Fri, Oct 9, 2026 - Portland, OR
Sat, Oct 10, 2026 - Seattle, WA 
Tues, Oct 27, 2026 - St Paul, MN 
Thu, Oct 29, 2026 - Chicago, IL
Fri, Oct 30, 2026 - Toronto, ON
Sat, Oct 31, 2026 - Montréal, QC
Fri, Dec 4, 2026 - Boston, MA
Sat, Dec 5, 2026 - Boston, MA 
Wed, Dec 9, 2026 - New York, NY

https://t.co/VBZzJuOBFj

[Norm Clark @Normsmusic]

James Robison
What Joyce Carol Oates wrote to Elon Musk on Twitter. I am told it rattled him. I love it.
“So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates – scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world.’”

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

It will be at least 40 years before our loved and lovely America recovers from the wounds this selfish, stupid, and ego-driven man has inflicted. That it will recover seems certain to me, but it will leave scars.

[Amanda Palmer 🎹 @amandapalmer]

♥️🎉♥️

[Goth Fairy Fiona (top .9% on OF) @Gothfairyfiona]

My mom showed @amandapalmer my ukulele song cover awhile ago and she said it was great and SHES JUST NOW TELLING ME THIS??
I can live happy

[Amanda Palmer 🎹 @amandapalmer]

This is insane.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

This is an actual page on the White House web site. It reads like something written about a third world dictator. So embarrassing. I have not seen any branch of the federal government sink this low in my lifetime.

[Amanda Palmer 🎹 @amandapalmer]

NEW🍸RECORDING🍷DROP🥂
Go listen and share share share🎉

[The Dresden Dolls @DresdenDolls]

The Dresden Dolls “Tailor’s Version” of My Alcoholic Friends DROPS TODAY ON ALL STREAMING PLATFORMS. Same song, BRAND new recording…and why? Because We the Band will now own and control our masters and keep the money from the streams! Go listen. It slaps even harder twenty years later. Use it, share it, make art out of it. We love you. Long Live The Punk Cabaret. 🔥🥁🎹🔥 https://t.co/xOzJmuUmoG

[Amanda Palmer 🎹 @amandapalmer]

Yesssssss. I cannot wait. All tour dates at up at https://t.co/vzE7668akH.

[LunaLovesfilms @Luna_TBHs]

See you there @amandapalmer @DresdenDolls

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

This is what Trump's done to the people's house:

A third of it is rubble.

Another third is a cage match.

What a metaphor.

[Amanda Palmer 🎹 @amandapalmer]

🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪

[The Dresden Dolls @DresdenDolls]

The first single - a brand-new version of “Backstabber”from “Yes, Virginia...(Tailor’s Version)” is OUT NOW at the link below. Please stream early and often.

https://t.co/YSQwbOx2c8

[Amanda Palmer 🎹 @amandapalmer]

The @DresdenDolls are back with a vengeance. 🔥🎹🥁🔥🔪🔪🔪🔪

[The Dresden Dolls @DresdenDolls]

CALLING ALL COMRADES - announcing a brand-new re-recording: "Yes, Virginia...(Tailor's Version)". The album drops on August 7, pre-save it now. We cannot wait to tour; we haven’t played in some of these cities for 20 years. Come dressed for the end of the world…or the beginning. LONG LIVE THE PUNK CABARET. 🔥🎹 🥁🔥

Tues, Sept 1, 2026 - Vienna, AT
Wed, Sept 2, 2026 - Warsaw, PL
Fri, Sept 4, 2026- Prague, CZ
Sat, Sept 5, 2026 - Berlin, DE
Mon, Sept 7, 2026 - Utrecht, NL
Tues, Sept 8, 2026 - Paris, FR
Thu, Sept 10, 2026 - Manchester, UK
Fri, Sept 11, 2026 - London, UK
Sat, Oct 3, 2026 - Los Angeles, CA
Tues, Oct 6, 2026 - Sacramento, CA
Wed, Oct 7, 2026 - San Francisco, CA
Fri, Oct 9, 2026 - Portland, OR
Sat, Oct 10, 2026 - Seattle, WA  
Tues, Oct 27, 2026 - St Paul, MN 
Thu, Oct 29, 2026 - Chicago, IL
Fri, Oct 30, 2026 - Toronto, ON
Sat, Oct 31, 2026 - Quebec, QC
Fri, Dec 4, 2026 - Boston, MA
Sat, Dec 5, 2026 - Boston, MA 
Wed, Dec 9, 2026 - New York, NY