Breaking News Playlist | Ani DiFranco: Ani DiFranco Listens to Gilberto Gil and Pete Seeger - Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:25:42 GMT
While this Buffalo-born singer was recording her most recent album, Which Side Are You On?," released this week on her label, Righteous Babe, Ms. DiFranco was delving into avant-garde jazz, classic country and Brazilian tropicália music.
Ani DiFranco: Which Side Are You On - Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:12:20 GMT
Anybody who has followed Ani DiFranco's prolific career knows that while the warm pluck of her acoustic guitar that defined her earlier years is still there, she's continued to push the creative envelope through collaborators and album productions in recent years.
Listen up reviews of Ani DiFranco, The Big Pink, Chick Corea Listen Up: Ani DiFranco, The Big Pink, Chick Corea - Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:04:48 GMT
Two years ago, this Corea-led trio played a two-week residency at New York's Blue Note club that honored the late piano genius Bill Evans (bassist Gomez and the recently deceased Motian were vets of Evans' groups).
Album review: Ani DiFranco's "¿Which Side Are You On?" - Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:50:27 GMT
For those who have been complaining that there are no protest songs in pop music right now, '90s icon Ani DiFranco serves up a well-meaning but predictable specimen in the title song to her new studio album.
Ani DiFranco: Which Side Are You On? - Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:44:35 GMT
Until now, Ani DiFranco has never taken more than two years between albums.