Amanda Palmer performs at The Warfield in San Francisco on May 10, 2019. Photos: Gary Chancer. SAN FRANCISCO — Late in her four-hour show Friday, Amanda Palmer told the story of a yoga teacher who would tell her, “If you can, you must.” Her instructor was talking about especially…

Amanda Palmer. Courtesy photo. Amanda Palmer’s latest album, There Will Be No Intermission, is intensely personal. That was not by design. “It’s not like I woke up one day and said, ‘I know what I want to do; I want to write the world’s most personal record,'” said Palmer, who’s no…

Amanda Palmer’s new album, There Will Be No Intermission, is not a collection of generic, hypothetical songs about vague, universal themes. It does not strive to cast the widest sociopolitical net for the sake of maximizing sales. It is not a light, blandly cheerful affair. None of that is…