Ani DiFranco will release her 20th album since 1990 on September 30, a package that ranks as one of the folk singer's cheeriest, funkiest and most collaborative to...
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Ani DiFranco has renamed the 19th-century Gothic church in Buffalo that she bought and renovated.
Originally dubbed The Church, the venue is now Babeville.
The building...
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Here's the complete list of nominees for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The awards will be presented Feb. 11 in Los Angeles:
Album Of The Year
Taking the Long Way,...
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Ani DiFranco announced she's pregnant while being honored for her contributions to the feminist movement at the National Organization for Women's 40th annual...
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The first weekend of the
37th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ended with a
slow, elegiac version of the Crescent City standard "When the
Saints Go Marching In,"...
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Folk singer Ani DiFranco, who stopped performing for almost a year due to tendinitis in her wrists, will make her comeback Friday at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage...
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Let the Good Times Roll!
Vowing to gather the biggest names in music to celebrate
New Orleans, organizers of Jazz Fest on Wednesday unveiled an
eclectic line-up with the...
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Cyndi Lauper, "The Body Acoustic" (Epic)
On her new disc "The Body Acoustic," 52-year-old Cyndi Lauper recasts a slew of her old hits — from "She Bop" to "True...
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Former Afghan Whigs frontman Greg
Dulli has experienced life on an indie and life on a major. Now
he is finding that an artist may not need a label at all.
Dulli is not...
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In 2000, the Churchills thought they had it made. The New York-based pop band had landed a major-label record deal and were fixed up with producer Mark Hart, former...
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Country powerhouse Kenny Chesney's timeout from the Nashville scene
to challenge Jimmy Buffett 's beach-party monopoly has paid off. Be As
You Are: Songs from an Old Blue...
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A trip to "The Red Light
District" scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on
the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
The Atlanta rapper/actor's fourth Disturbing Tha...
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Same Bonnaroo time, same Bonnaroo
place.
The fourth annual Bonnaroo Music Festival will be held June
10-12, 2005, returning to the 700-acre site in rural
Manchester,...
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61. Salsa/Merengue Album: "Valio La Pena," Marc Anthony; "Travesia," Victor Manuelle; "Autentico," Gilberto Santa Rosa; "Creciendo," Son de Cali; "Across 110th Street,"...
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New York public radio station WFUV
will on Nov. 24 issue the seventh edition in its "City Folk
Live" series of live performances.
The set sports tracks from the Thrills,...
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Live tracks from Pearl Jam, R.E.M .,
Ben Harper , Paul McCartney , Bonnie Raitt and Indigo Girls
highlight the track list for "For the Lady," a benefit album
for imprisoned...
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Organizers of the Vote for Change
tour say they are pleased with initial ticket sales for the
politically charged trek and expect shows to sell out by Labor
Day.
The tour...
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It may be Independence Day to you, but July 4th is officially Goo Goo Dolls Day in Buffalo.
The group has a city proclamation to prove it.
Johnny Rzeznik and Robbie...
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Montreal will be Canada's hot spot
this summer as the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal
celebrates its 25th anniversary June 30-July 11.
The festival, founded by...
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Performers at the nation's
biggest gathering of bands here always face Vegas-style odds.
Yet acts ranging from major-label properties to unsigned
regional groups -- more...
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Never a stranger to doing things her own way, Ani DiFranco has found herself doing them alone these days.
DiFranco, who recently split with her longtime partner and sound...
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Complete list of nominees in 105 categories announced Thursday for the 46th annual Grammy Awards, to be presented Feb. 8 in Los Angeles:
1. Record of the Year: "Crazy in...
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Singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco will
release a new studio album, "Educated Guess," Jan. 20 via her
own Righteous Babe label.
The set was recorded and produced entirely by...
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Add hip-hop legend Chuck D to the list of artists speaking out against war with Iraq. Chuck D's rap on subject will be heard at Not In Our Name, an antiwar concert set to...
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Ani DiFranco will donate thousands of dollars generated from a Newport, Rhode Island concert next month to the Buffalo performing arts high school from which she graduated....
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Ani DiFranco was bumped off the Late Show With David Letterman after the artist and the he show's producers disagreed about which song she should perform. The show put the...
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Buffalo, New York natives Ani DiFranco and the Goo Goo Dolls have spearheaded a hometown-produced compilation CD that was released last week to commemorate the second...
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Indie-folk hero Ani DiFranco returns to the spotlight with the release of the double album Revelling/Reckoning, from her own Righteous Babe Records, on April 10. The...
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George Michael, Rufus Wainwright, Ani DiFranco, and Bob Mould are among the big-name nominees for the 1998 GLAMA Awards (the Gay And Lesbian Music Awards), which will be...
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Although her 12th album is scheduled to hit shelves in a little over a month, progressive folk singer and label owner Ani DiFranco is already back in the studio. "I guess I...
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After learning that Peter Gabriel had chosen to call his forthcoming album Up, the same title of the next R.E.M. album, guitarist Peter Buck quipped, "We hope in the future...
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Ani DiFranco, whose angst and openly ambiguous sexuality have made her an independent recording star, has quietly gotten married.
DiFranco and longtime companion and...
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Other nominations announced yesterday for the 40th annual Grammy Awards:
BEST FEMALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE:
"Butterfly" - Mariah Carey, "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?" -...
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Ani DiFranco plans to hit the street with her new album, Little Plastic Castle, in February. But word has already surfaced on several of the album's12 tracks, most recorded...
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On October 28th Rhino Records will release not but two compilations celebrating the musical trends and tastes of gay and lesbian culture. The first disc, Women Like Us:...
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