Ani DiFranco

DiFranco has landed at the first position on Billboard Folk Albums with her comeback album, and climbed to top 5 on Independent Albums chart. Read More

In the 1990s, the young singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco enjoyed unprecedented success on her own Righteous Babe Records. Read More

Ani DiFranco, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Béla Fleck, Arlo Guthrie & The Guthrie Family, Dawes and Punch Brothers are among the acts slated to appear at Pete Seeger's annual Clearwater Festival. Read More

S he's dealt with a lot of obstacles–dismissal of her music, sexist condescension, even attempts from Clear Channel to shut down her concerts. Read More

Now that we're coming up on the end of the first month of 2012, the number of new releases from indie and alternative rock artists and bands are starting to stack up. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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). Read More

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. Read More

Until now, Ani DiFranco has never taken more than two years between albums. Read More