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Toy ponies. You wouldn't really expect it from a band whose concerts call forth throngs of fat, drunk people, but Amanda Palmer, the lead singer for the Punk-Cabaret (alternative) band; The Dresden Dolls has a small herd of My Little Pony things that accompany her on tour, and on stage. Their unusual playing style ranges from odd songs with Amanda playing the toy piano, and Brian Vigoline providing a heartbeat, to songs about some of the darkest material you could imagine. Some of their songs sound like they came out of your grandmother's music box, because they sound so antique and simple but only if you don’t really listen. Once you hear the lyrics to the Dolls’ songs they lose their innocence. Since Brian and Amanda are a two piece you might be tempted to compare them to compare them to the White Stripes. Don’t. I mean, they're got drums, but the drumming style and quality are completely different. OK, I'll admit that there is one more similarity, they have a look. Both bands have very recognizable costumes, the Dresden Dolls perform looking a little like mimes, and in costumes that seem to grow smaller as the concert wears on, merely because Brian seems to have an aversion to shirts, it seems like at the one Dolls show I went to he had his shirt off halfway through the second or third song. The Dresden Dolls also talk (or sing really) about some matters that are important to teens, and some that matter to everybody. In “Good Day” Amanda sings about people just ignoring you to talk about, well, themselves. It happens to all of us. In “Bad Habit” she’s singing about cutting, from the first few words it’s easy to tell. The one line that really speaks to me is “And you might say its self-destructive/but, you see, it's more productive/than if I were to be happy” a lot of their songs are about things like this, I think one of the best things about the Dresden Dolls is that they’re real. You can understand them, their songs are about real stuff, and they seem human. You can’t really call the Dresden Dolls “up and coming” because they’ve been around for about six years, and they’re still not much about the “cult following” status. But one thing is that if you ever see the Dresden Dolls you’ll never forget them, so, they might just be a cult, but even after they’re gone the lucky few that have been to their concerts will remember them forever.

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Toy ponies. You wouldn't really expect it from a band whose concerts call forth throngs of fat, drunk people, but Amanda Palmer, the lead singer for the Punk-Cabaret (alternative) band; The Dresden Dolls has a small herd of My Little Pony things that accompany her on tour, and on stage. Their unusual playing style ranges from odd songs with Amanda playing the toy piano, and Brian Vigoline providing a heartbeat, to songs about some of the darkest material you could imagine. Some of their songs sound like they came out of your grandmother's music box, because they sound so antique and simple but only if you don’t really listen. Once you hear the lyrics to the Dolls’ songs they lose their innocence. Since Brian and Amanda are a two piece you might be tempted to compare them to compare them to the White Stripes. Don’t. I mean, they're got drums, but the drumming style and quality are completely different. OK, I'll admit that there is one more similarity, they have a look. Both bands have very recognizable costumes, the Dresden Dolls perform looking a little like mimes, and in costumes that seem to grow smaller as the concert wears on, merely because Brian seems to have an aversion to shirts, it seems like at the one Dolls show I went to he had his shirt off halfway through the second or third song. The Dresden Dolls also talk (or sing really) about some matters that are important to teens, and some that matter to everybody. In “Good Day” Amanda sings about people just ignoring you to talk about, well, themselves. It happens to all of us. In “Bad Habit” she’s singing about cutting, from the first few words it’s easy to tell. The one line that really speaks to me is “And you might say its self-destructive/but, you see, it's more productive/than if I were to be happy” a lot of their songs are about things like this, I think one of the best things about the Dresden Dolls is that they’re real. You can understand them, their songs are about real stuff, and they seem human. You can’t really call the Dresden Dolls “up and coming” because they’ve been around for about six years, and they’re still not much about the “cult following” status. But one thing is that if you ever see the Dresden Dolls you’ll never forget them, so, they might just be a cult, but even after they’re gone the lucky few that have been to their concerts will remember them forever.