Yesterday we saw iconic musician Sinead O’Connor write a letter to Miley Cyrus (and then ANOTHER letter) that got a lot of buzz (which you can read here). Now Amanda Palmer has written a response letter to O’Connor, showing gratitude and, of course, disagreeing to some extent. “Do I want a whole generation of teenagers looking […]
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Amanda Palmer Writes a Letter In Response to Sinead O’Connor (In Response to Miley Cyrus)
October 4th, 2013 
Nina Corcoran Amanda Palmer Responds to Uproar, to Pay Musicians
September 20th, 2012 Dan Bogosian Earlier this month, singer Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls requested “professional-ish horns and strings” to take part in her act “for a couple of tunes” with a payment of “beer and merch“. Her Kickstarter for her solo album raised $1.2 million, and so the internet responded negatively to her not paying her musicians money. […]
Steve Albini Talks Straight About Amanda Palmer’s Money “Woes”
September 13th, 2012 Jacob Tender Amanda Palmer raised A LOT of money on Kickstarter. For most people, the amount of her fan’s cash that she got would be far too much, but she was well deserving. So we thought… Recently, miss Palmer made an offer to prospective musicians, asking them to essentially play for baubles. This upset some folks (mostly musicians). […]
You Need To Know: Amanda Palmer
July 20th, 2009 James Shotwell Being an up and coming website can have its drawbacks. The worst of which being not working with every band you dream of working with [at least not right away]. So, even though I have no real news to post, we need to discuss Amanda Palmer. For those of you familiar with her work or […]
We Support Amanda Palmer!
April 6th, 2009 James Shotwell If you don’t know this talented singer/songwriter from her days in The Dresden Dolls or her solo record, Who Killed Amanda Palmer, then you’re not living life to the fullest. She’s currently severely out of place on the Roadrunner Records roster and we want her set free! Check out this song she wrote just for […]
Morrissey Announces 2015 U.S. Tour
April 3rd, 2015 James Shotwell This is cause for cautious excitement. Morrissey has been touring the US more and more in recent years, but nearly every run has ended early due to one reason or another. We’re hoping this story has a happier ending, but we’ll have to wait and see what happens. Earlier today, April 3, Morrissey announced plans […]
AFI Docs 2014 Round-Up
June 26th, 2014 Tyler Osborne This past weekend, I had the unique pleasure of attending AFI Docs, the premiere documentary film festival in Washington, DC. For those of you who follow the site regularly, you know that here at UTG we are avid lovers of the documentary, and we do everything we can as writers to help promote this genre […]
REVIEW: Sick Puppies – Connect
July 26th, 2013 Grace Duffy Artist: Sick Puppies Album: Connect Genre: Rock Label: Capitol Slightly conflicted, uneven at times, but appealing, Australian trio Sick Puppies’ fourth album Connect seems to find itself caught between two competing desires. It is for the most part chart-flavoured, with straightforward structuring, engaging choruses, and quick running times but there’s a distinctly darker undertone that […]
mtvU Woodie Awards Winners
March 18th, 2013 Grant Trimboli This past weekend the mtvu Woodie Awards were held and everyone showed up to support their favorite breakthrough artists / bands. Be sure to click through the link provided to see the entire winners list and tell UTG what you thought of the performances this year! Woodie of the Year WINNER: Machine Gun Kelly » […]
Of Montreal Making Documentary, Launch Kickstarter Campaign
November 17th, 2012 Dan Bogosian All the cool kids nowadays are crowd funding music projects; earlier this year, we saw Amanda Palmer do it and The Venetia Fair do it, and now indie rockers Of Montreal are doing it, too. Of Montreal is different, however, in that they are not funding an album nor a tour; they are instead trying […]
8 songs in 8 hours featuring Damian Kulash (Ok Go) and friends
April 25th, 2011 Grant Trimboli Writing a song in 8 hours isn’t that much of an obstacle to overcome if you are a musician. What if you only had 8 hours to write 8 songs though?! Damian Kulash (Ok Go) has joined Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman, and Ben Folds, who are trying to accomplish this feat, at the Rethink Music […]
Trent Reznor Is No Longer A Fan Of Pay-What-You-Want
August 28th, 2013 Dan Bogosian Trent Reznor did a great interview with SPIN the other day. One story making waves is when Trent told a certain portion of people to go fuck themselves. When asked about getting bigger, he ended up touching on his time in the pay-what-you-want world and the Kickstarter controversies over the years, saying “I know that […]