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Boston rock diva Amanda Palmer sent out an indecent proposal over her Twitter account yesterday: a nude self-portrait, pubes and all, that she encouraged fans to transform into fake Rolling Stone covers. We're a family Web site, so we don't have any of the images to show you here, but take a look at this collection of fan-generated art. It is very NSFW.

A few weeks ago, we talked to Amanda Palmer about "The Needle That Sings in Her Heart," a play inspired by Neutral Milk Hotel's classic album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Yesterday, we had the good fortune to see the show for ourselves. We hadn't been inside a high school auditorium for some time, but this experience was worth the trouble.

Bostonist caught Amanda Palmer's Neutral Milk Hotel musical "The Needle That Sings in Her Heart" earlier today at Lexington High School. We'll have some notes up tomorrow, but in the meantime, check out a live stream of tonight's performance, starting soon. There may still be walk-up tickets available for the live performance, so if you're a big AFP, NMH, or LHS fan and can get to the school by 8 or so, definitely do it!

We recently had the good fortunate to chat with Amanda Palmer about her role in creating and putting on "The Needle That Sings in Her Heart" (tentative title), a play ("a play that uses music... not a musical," according to Palmer) based on Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Palmer created the show with her former drama teacher Steven Bogart as well as a cast of students at Lexington High School.

Pitchfork reports that Lexington High School is putting on a new play based on Neutral Milk Hotel's seminal (reeeally seminal) 1998 album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Lexington native and Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer will star in the play, slated to run from May 7 to 9. As the album was inspired in part by Anne Frank's diary, the play will be "about music and the Holocaust" according to Palmer, who also told Pitchfork, "My high school theater director, Steven Bogart, is one of my biggest artistic mentors and I've been trying to get back there since I left... I'm not sure what kind of life [the play will] have after the spring. We might try to take it elsewhere." Holland, perhaps? Or back in time? Some sources question whether the NMH album is appropriate material for high schoolers, but we're pretty sure these kids deal with the two-faced all the time, so why not the two-headed? Palmer is currently rehearsing at LHS and may follow up the play with a concept album about her hometown. No word on whether the play will include a version of "April 1st."

Last time we checked in, Boston bands weren't exactly dominating the SXSW music festival. Fortunately, the final list now includes Apollo Sunshine, Arms and Sleepers, Sarah Borges, The Downbeat 5, Melissa Ferrick, Muck and the Mires, Passion Pit, Eli Reed, Eileen Rose, Mean Creek, Tulsa, Westbound Train, Wheat, and Who Shot Hollywood from Massachusetts; Deer Tick, B. Dolan, Howl, The Low Anthem, Jared Paul, and Prolyphic from Rhode Island; plus Pictures and Sound from VT and the Queers from NH. It's a much more robust New England lineup than before.

Feministing tells us that Roadrunner Records apparently asked Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer to cut images of her "fat" belly from her new music video, "Leeds United" (above). (Maybe that's just what happens when you're on the same label as Nickelback?) It's rumored that Palmer has left the label over the lipid lividity, but her blog doesn't confirm this.

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In late January, the Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer told fans on her MySpace page that she would soon be going under the knife. Nodes had formed on the pianist/singer's vocal cords, and it would require surgery to remove them and get her throat back into shape.

Bostonist was on the phone with our buddy Keith on Thursday, chatting about the upcoming Boston Pops spring season. The initial season announcement had just crossed our desk at Bostonist HQ, and we wanted to see what Keith thought of a spring and summer that will include jazz, Broadway, a season-long tribute to Leonard Bernstein, and appearances by Natalie Cole, Natalie Merchant, and Amanda Palmer.

Rob Vassegh of Cheap Thrills Boston sent Bostonist an interview he did with the amazing Titler, who will be performing tonight. For more about getting your kicks in Boston on the cheap, go to Cheap Thrills Boston.

Sxip's Hour of Charm will be tonight, Saturday, September 15, at 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm, and tomorrow, Sunday, September 16, at 8:00 pm, at the Zero Arrow Theatre. The show will run on weekends through September 30th. Go to ART's home page for details. The press release said that Sxip's Hour of Charm is "indescribable." Oh, but it is describable - it is like the circus, complete with ringmaster and musician Sxip Shirey and...

After a weekend of rain where all we heard was disgruntled Bostonians complaining, because that's what we do best, about the weather we rock into the week. Miraculously the Red Sox managed to play all their games this past weekend making us furiously check the forecast for WBOS' 14th annual EarthFest coming up this weekend. For us it marks the first of many outdoor events that will happen this summer, and it's Memorial Day...

We told you a couple of weeks ago about how Boston punk cabaret artist ("musician" doesn't seem to sum it up quite right) Amanda Palmer tried in vain to auction off her 1992 Volvo.

There may or may not soon be an interesting auction on eBay for Dresden Dolls fans.

In case you haven't heard the next week promises to show us the winter we've been missing out – only minus the snow. Cold temperatures (below freezing every day!) will be the rule according to the current outlook. Perfect time to head out to your favorite music venue. There's no better way we can think of to stay warm. This week you'll find the old, the new, the nerd, and some classical among the...

If you ventured out after Thursday's holiday to participate in the great American tradition – shopping – you likely were subjected to all sorts of Christmas music. From Clay's Merry Christmas with Love to Nat King Cole's classics it's upon us. More and more radio stations are picking up the radio formatting. It may not be "too early" but it's certainly not what you'll find if you check out this weeks shows. And remember you can always catch 24/7 streaming of Boston's (no xmas tunes) local rock on Exploit Boston Radio to get you through December.

Tuesday 11/21

In a world where there's nothing to do but watch movies. In a city full of theaters, museums, and libraries. One moviegoer who can be in three places at once. This week's films promise to be festive, well-attended events for their respective niches: Bollywood, science fiction, anime, and self-identified "Brechtian punk cabaret" enthusiasts. Bostonist is especially psyched that Krrish's Massachusetts premiere isn't a day later than its release in India, and that no amount of...

Anushka Pop, are earning some well deserved buzz from their 2nd EP, Akathena. Give a minute, well, 2 minutes to be precise, and listen to the title track; you'll understand why. The boys (John Soares - lead vocal/guitar/ organ, Chris Welch - drums/vocals, and Johnny Arguedas- bass/vocals) were nice enough to sit down with Bostonist, and after one round of whiskey, spill all their trade secrets.