One-half of the Dresden Dolls, and has also been doing some solo projects recently. She recently played with the Boston Pops, for instance -- including the Dolls' song "Coin-Operated Boy", one of their first hits, in which, during one of the instrumental parts, she got into a shoving match with the conductor of the Pops, which ended with Keith Lockhart, the conductor, sitting at the piano playing the piano solo, with Amanda in at the podium conducting the Pops . . .

Her next project is an album and book called Who Killed Amanda Palmer -- it's a solo album, but I'd managed to miss that the book is being written by Gaiman.