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Read Amanda Palmer’s “A Poem For Dzhokhar”

- Source: Stereogum

These days, Amanda Palmer lives with her husband, author Neil Gaiman, near Minneapolis, but as you might know, Palmer's formative years were spent on the streets of Boston, working as a "living statue" mime, where she would regularly interact with "lonely people who looked like they hadn't talked to anyone in weeks," and then, "we would sort of fall in love a little bit."

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Amanda Palmer’s TED Talk: What We Learned

- Source: Stereogum

Last week, Amanda Palmer was one of the speakers at the TED2013 conference, and she delivered an affecting 13-and-a-half-minute speech titled "The Art Of Asking," in which she detailed her rise from a "living statue" mime working the streets of Boston to an internationally known musician whose current revenue model relies primarily on the direct support of fans.

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Muruch’s Festive 50

- Source: Muruch

2 The Vespers: Better Now 3 Kate Miller-Heidke: 4 Amanda Palmer: The Killing Type 5 The Mynabirds: 6 J.D. McPherson: Scratching Circles 7 Goodnight Texas: 8 Fiona Apple: Every Single Night 9 Norah Jones: 11 Sam Palladio & Clare Bowen: If I Didn’t Know Better 12 Birdy: 13 St. Vincent & David Byrne: 14 Muse: Survival 15 Sylvie Lewis: 16 Khatia Buniatishvili: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35 17 Queen Esther: 18 The Mynabirds: Wolf Mother 19 J.D. McPherson: 20 Fiona Apple: 21 Anaïs Mitchell: Dying Day 22 Julie Lee & The Baby-Daddies: 23 Muse: The 2nd Law: Unsustainable 24 Escort: 25 Amanda Palmer: Do It With a Rockstar 26 Cat Power: 27 Anaïs Mitchell: 28 The Vespers: Got No Friends 29 Julie Lee & The Baby-Daddies: 30 Shawn Colvin: We All Fall Down 31 Goodnight Texas: I’m Going to Work on Maggie’s Farm Forever 32 Dala:

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