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Ani DiFranco: I Love People Who Are Brave In Showing Themselves
by Leo Sidran
Ani DiFranco began recording and self-releasing her music as a 20 year old in Buffalo, New York in 1990. 34 years later she is widely considered to be a feminist icon. But in many ways she emerged iconic, fully formed and fearless. A facile lyricist with a biting honesty, she played guitar with a virtuosic, rhythmic style. And she was ahead of her time as an independent artist who owned all her own masters and controlled most of ...
read moreTodd Sickafoose: Tiny Resistors
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
With lush orchestrations of finely honed compositions, bassist Todd Sickafoose's Tiny Resistors reveals a broad musical vision. A stalwart of the new music scene, playing improv and indie-rock projects and blurring those distinctions, Sickafoose's third CD highlights his maturation as a composer and talents as a multi-instrumentalist, with pieces incorporating a swath of stylistic influences--rock, Americana, jazz, blues and touches of modern classical. Sickafoose works a sweeping aural range, with instrumentation that includes two guitars, drums and ...
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by John Kelman
An active sideman, bassist Todd Sickafoose is best-known for his work with DIY singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco. But he's also been very busy on the outer edges of jazz, working with artists including John Zorn on Voices in the Wilderness (Tzadik, 2003), Tin Hat Trio on The Rodeo Eroded (Ropeadope, 2002), and Scott Amendola Band on the drummer's very fine Cry (Cryptogramophone, 2003). It may be Amendola's disc that hooked Sickafoose up with Cryptogramophone for Tiny Resistors, his third record as ...
read moreAni Difranco: New Album
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WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? OUT JANUARY 17 Singer/songwriter/guitarist Ani DiFranco has announced the upcoming release of her eagerly awaited new album. Which Side Are You On? arrives via the Grammy-winning artist's own Righteous Babe Records on January 17, 2012. Which Side Are You On? marks DiFranco's first studio album in more than three years. The collection features 11 new songs alongside a radically reworked rendition of the classic title song, famously popularized by the one and only Pete Seeger ...
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Ani Difranco:Red Letter Year
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By: Trevor Pour
What else can one write about Ani DiFranco? When an artist approaches the release of her 18th official studio album, history is essentially established. So, what differentiates Red Letter Year (Righteous Babe) from the droves of music that's come before? Surprisingly, quite a bit. This is Ani's first new material since the birth of her daughter, Petah Lucia DiFranco Napolitano, who just may have the greatest name in the history of babies. Her newfound happiness as a ...
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Over the Rhine Team up with Ani Difranco for March Tour
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CINCINNATI, Ohio -- Over The Rhine is on the road again, this time supporting Ani DiFranco for an 11-date tour in March. The tour will bring the two ground-breaking acts to several Eastern and Southern cities beginning in Concord, N.H. on February 28 and culminating in New Orleans on March 16 (see full itinerary below).
According to Over The Rhine member Karin Bergquist: Ani DiFranco is the kind of artist that everyone aspires to be, but few find the inner ...
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Over the Rhine Team up with Ani Difranco for March Tour
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conqueroo
CINCINNATI, Ohio Over The Rhine is on the road again, this time supporting Ani DiFranco for an 11-date tour in March. The tour will bring the two ground-breaking acts to several Eastern and Southern cities beginning in Concord, N.H. on February 28 and culminating in New Orleans on March 16 (see full itinerary below). According to Over The Rhine member Karin Bergquist: Ani DiFranco is the kind of artist that everyone aspires to be, but few find the inner strength ...
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