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"Punk-founded doubt and fear has directly spawned the cowardly culture of modern irony. Fear of being called out or targeted for enjoying art that doesn’t meet the stringent criteria of punkness … The very act of loving something ironically is an admission that punk-rock groupthink has denied us our own will … Punk has encouraged us to hate innocence until the only entertainments we can appreciate are the fake epiphanies of celebrity weight-loss porn and cynical folk-revival banjo music that borders on thoughtcrime."

Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls just gets it.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is “how do we make people pay for music”“.

What if we started asking, ‘How do we let people pay for music?’

Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls just gets it.

"The overarching theme of the LP and point of the guts in fancy script is that as much as we dress it up in flattery, we’re all only so much meat in the end."

Chris Colohan of Burning Love, on the artistic direction of new LP Rotten Thing To Say