Ani DiFranco

Something for the weekend: Artists for Action “Which Side Are You On?”

March 7, 2025 Mark Whitfield 1

Well that’s it from us for this week dear reader. In September of 2022 an international folk supergroup consisting of 16 artists (including Bruce Cockburn, Ani DiFranco and Martin Simpson) from six countries on four continents […]

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Ani DiFranco brings her “Unprecedented Sh!t” to the UK/EU in 2025

December 5, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

(As ever we are not prurient about four letter words in these parts but the Mailchimp NSFW filter zaps them). Singer/songwriter/feminist/author Ani DiFranco has announced that she will be extending her “Unprecedented Sh!t: The Tour” to […]

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Ani DiFranco “Unprecedented Sh!t”

August 2, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Editor’s note: We are not puritanical about swearing here at AUK, in fact we like a good cuss from time to time, but NSFW email filters might block tomorrow’s Mailchimp email if we don’t change the […]

Ani DiFranco “New Bible” – Time to adopt different way

April 9, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Ani DiFranco’s latest album ‘Unprecedented Sh!t’ is being heralded by a pair of singles ‘The Thing At Hand‘ and the song we’re featuring today ‘New Bible.’ It’s a song which depicts a way of living that stands […]

Classic Americana Albums: Ani DiFranco “Not A Pretty Girl”

June 2, 2021 Kimberly Bright 0

‘Not A Pretty Girl’ captures an intriguing portrait of songwriter, musician, poet, and political activist Ani DiFranco as a young woman. It was her sixth studio album on Righteous Babe Records, the label she started at […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Album Reviews

John Baumann “Border Radio”

November 2, 2023 0

Storytelling album filled with songs about Texan characters (and cars); lyrically inconsistent but still a good listen. Seemingly ever since the advent of motoring, there have been songs that reference cars (or automobiles). Songs that mention […]

Tracks

Jim Kweskin “Four Or Five Times” – skiffling along

March 28, 2025 0

Jim Kweskin – now that’s a legendary name, leader of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band through the Sixties and beyond, playing with people like Geoff Muldaur and appearing at the original Newport Folk Festival five years […]

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Lost Kinks track found!

August 16, 2018 0

That’s hyperbole – not so much lost more carefully stored away in a tape archive but never previously released. This track, ‘Time Song‘ has been heard before though, it was played at a concert celebrating the […]

Something for the weekend: Artists for Action “Which Side Are You On?”

Ani DiFranco brings her “Unprecedented Sh!t” to the UK/EU in 2025

Ani DiFranco “Unprecedented Sh!t”

Ani DiFranco “New Bible” – Time to adopt different way

Classic Americana Albums: Ani DiFranco “Not A Pretty Girl”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”