Ani DiFranco is set to release her 23rd album, Unprecedented Sh!t, on May 17 via her label, Righteous Babe Records. According to a press release, the title signifies a departure in sound by the singer ...

What has always separated Ani DiFranco from the thousands of other acoustic guitar-playing, female singer-songwriters is the pugnacity of her eloquence, epitomized by her steadfast ability to walk the ...

Ray Charles was born; Buddy Holly and the Crickets had a hit with 'That'll Be The Day'; a widely believed story about Paul ...

On a sunny afternoon in April, renowned alt-folk singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco is sitting at a table in the front window of Westville, a popular restaurant in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New ...

Ani DiFranco is on tour in support of her most recent album,Red Letter Year. The prolific DiFranco released the album in 2008. That means 2009 joins 2000 and 2007 as the only years since DiFranco's ...

Folk rocker Ani DiFranco speaks with Michel Martin and performs songs from her 20th album Red Letter Year. The album is filled with politically charged lyrics, which DiFranco fans are accustomed to, ...

To understand Ani DiFranco’s work as it stands now, it helps to know where she lives. The wandering feminist folkie veteran (we can call her that now, right?) has made her home in New Orleans over the ...

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with songwriter Ani DiFranco about her Broadway debut in the musical Hadestown and her long backstory with her character Persephone. Ani DiFranco is no stranger to ...

This story originally appeared in Issue #2 of Paste Magazine in the fall of 2002, republished in celebration of Paste’s 20th Anniversary. Carnegie Hall, April 6, 2002. Ani DiFranco’s second solo ...

With stardom just a compromise away, Ani DiFranco chides her fans, goofs on the media, and wishes major labels would get the bleep off her answering machine. Jonathan Van Meter uncovers the essential ...

Ani DiFranco is no stranger to reinvention. Over the course of more than three decades and nearly two dozen studio albums, the folk artist has experimented with jazz, hip-hop and funk. She's even ...