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this one was too good to just twipic. i’m still putting together an edinburgh blog. a few weeks ago, my friend alina simone took me on a adventure with her to brighton beach, brooklyn, in order to research an article...

is it wrong to want to live on your own? no, it’s not wrong  but i must know how can someone so young sing words so sad  sheila take a sheila take a bow boot the grime of this world...

ah, the radiohead video. it took forever. and then it was DONE! BUT, as tends to happen to many things in amanda-landa, the timing to release it wasn’t quite right. we didn’t want it dropping during the dresden dolls’ tour...

good day lovers here’s a Thing to Look At: one of my ol’ school favorite bands, they might be giants (how brilliant is “flood”? best album ever), just put up a winner for a fan-made video contest, and MAN am...

UPDATE 7/18/11 – Watch at http://bit.ly/AFPlive71811 or with this embed: hola betches ! i’m going to be at berklee school of music on monday (july 18th), teaching the young upstarts how i write songs, and we GONNA WEBCAST so the people...

good day, my dear comrades. before i tell you about the secret order of the hugging nuns, it’s time to go PUBLIC with my first two west coast shows: OCTOBER 28 in San Diego, while Neil is at WonderCon, i’ll...

and the days did pass, and lo there were shows to be beheld in the greater new york area, and so it was that they were ready to be a band. and soOOOooooOOO…. we spent a few days in brooklyn,...

hello my friends….. this is It. this is the month that i’ve been mythically telling myself about for, oh, 5 or 6 years now: the month where i clean out my entire fucking boston apartment, make my computer be organized,...

photo by lee barron, theswing-ingest. pictured above: me & my beloved friend, filmmaker michael pope, outside the lucy parsons bookstore, just a few blocks from home in boston. they’re closing down their south end location, packing up all their radical...

good morning, comrades. after a long hiatus from recording, i spent about 9 hours locked in the basement of this studio in new haven CT, last night: my back-up band for these upcoming new york shows, michael and chad, just...