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In late December, Beantown twosome the Dresden Dolls will embark on their first tour since this past summer's cavalcade of True Colors, making their way around well-traveled portions of North America.

Quoth Doll Amanda Palmer via press release: "We're planning on a simple, stripped-down, go-out-on-stage-destroy kind of show. Of course, I always say that and we wind up with a ton of people on stage, doing weird things. How does that always happen?" Dunno, but you can do weird things beginning December 27 in D.C.

Seems Palmer's got quite a bit to say of late. Amanda's solo debut, Who Killed Amanda Palmer, is due early next year. Produced by piano man Ben Folds, the album has apparently transformed from a simple solo joint to, as Amanda puts it, a "full-production monster."

The in-process disc will feature tracks "Don't Take Flowers", "Night Reconnaissance", "Awful Detail", "The Mouse & the Model", and "Blake Says", though it sounds like pretty much everything else about it is up in the air at this point. Pester Amanda for progress reports if you please at one of her forthcoming solo shows, kicking off this weekend and listed after the jump.

Oh, and the Dolls have a characteristically off-kilter merchandizing thing going on, too. It's called Post War Trade, and it's a call for designers and doodlers alike to submit logos and the like to potentially be printed on official Dresden Dolls merch. Besides fame, glory, and so forth, a hefty portion of proceeds from sales of the selected stuff will go to the original artists.

Dresden Dolls:

12-27 Washington, DC - Sixth & I Historic Synagogue *
12-27 Baltimore, MD - Ram's Head Live *
12-28 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts *#
12-29 Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre *#
12-31 New York, NY - Grand Ballroom *#
01-03 Montreal, Quebec - Le National ^
01-04 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix Concert Theatre ^
01-05 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre %
01-06 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant %
01-08 Birmingham, AL - WorkPlay Theatre %
01-10 Tampa, FL - Tampa Theatre %
01-11 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse %
01-12 Durham, NC - Carolina Theatre %
01-13 Norfolk, VA - NorVa Theater %

* with Meow Meow
# with Luminescent Orchestrii
^ with Die Mannequin
% with Two Ton Boa

Amanda solo (or, if you will, Doll parts):

11-24 Portland, ME - Space Gallery
11-25 Providence, RI - The Living Room
12-10 Melbourne, Australia - Spiegeltent
12-11 Melbourne, Australia - Spiegeltent
12-12 Melbourne, Australia - Spiegeltent
12-13 Melbourne, Australia - Spiegeltent
12-14 Meredith, Australia - Meredith Music Festival
12-17 Sydney, Australia - The Factory
12-19 Brisbane, Australia - The Zoo