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  • The Dresden Dolls
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  • American musical duos
  • Musical groups established in 2001
  • Rock music duos
  • The Dresden Dolls
  • Roadrunner Records artists
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  • The duo of The Dresden Dolls make music based around arrangements of drums (by Brian), piano and vocals (by Amanda), which they call their style of music %22Brechtian Punk Cabaret%22. They started in mid-2000 in Boston, Massachusetts, releasing a compilation of live tracks, then their self-titled debut album. In spring 2005, they got set up as the opening band for Nine Inch Nails', even without Reznor attending of their live shows beforehand.As of September 2008 the band are on an indefinate hiatus while Amanda works on her solo career and Brian plays with other bands.-- - -- - -- - --Notes on the band: Dresden Dolls are dolls made from a delecate porcelain from the German city of Dresden; then there's Dresden's history of being firebombed at the end of World War II in 1945. The %22Brechtian%22 part of %22Brechtian Punk Cabaret%22 comes from 20th-century German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer, Bertolt Brecht, who wanted audiences to think rather than become too involved with the story and characters.
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  • The Dresden Dolls are an American musical duo from Boston, Massachusetts. Formed in 2000, the group consists of Amanda Palmer (lead vocals, piano, harmonica, ukulele) and Brian Viglione (drums, percussion, guitar, bass guitar, vocals). The two describe their style as %22Brechtian punk cabaret%22, a phrase invented by Palmer because she was %22terrified%22 that the press would invent a name that %22would involve the word gothic%22. The Dresden Dolls are part of an underground dark cabaret movement that started gaining momentum in the early 2000s.
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  • Roadrunner Records
  • 8ft. Records
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  • Alternative Rock
  • Punk Cabaret
  • Dark Cabaret
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