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His artwork for "Never Mind the Bollocks" helped bring the Sex Pistols' only studio album to the wider world, defining the image of British punk rock.

One look in the mirror was all it took for ex-Beatle Ringo Starr to find the best producer for his 17th solo record, "Ringo 2012," Starr claims.

While lyrically fusing the activist-artist model of feminist folk-rockers such as Ani DiFranco with the cuter, hornier ramblings of indies such as Kimya Dawson, Sol Ruiz's upbeat, sunny music and sassy jazz vocals ultimately recall another coy South Florida strummer - Rachel Goodrich.

Katelyn Shook, left, and her sister Laurie, are The Shook Twins who will play the Spur Ba and Grill on Feb.

Ani DiFranco's mature period has its moments , but the work has lacked the teeth and fire of her '90s albums - until now.

With over 17 studio albums to her credit, Ani DiFranco has a strong handle on outspoken, politically charged music.

Recorded barely six months after the September 11th attacks, the focal point of this solo acoustic performance was the one-two long-form poem punch of 'Serpentine' and 'Work In Progress' , both written about American society before and after 9/11. Difranco writes that she felt "terrified but resolute"? as she performed: "What did I think I was ... (more)

Many know Ani DiFranco as a feminist folk artist but yet on her new album, Which Side Are You On? , you aren't slapped with propaganda or force-fed views.

This group of recordings has the honor going three for three for three. Most readers of these reviews have been able to detect a frequent distaste for piano trios as overly predictable.

On Ani DiFranco 's latest studio record, Which Side Are You On? , songs vacillate between two major topics: politics and love.

Don't settle for the surfaces of Le Bon's music on her second album. You might think you've already heard it all before.

Ani DiFranco's mature period has its moments , but the work has lacked the teeth and fire of her '90s albums - until now.

For her sweet 16th studio album American folk/protest singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco proves yet again that she has a tender way with a melody and a sharp sense of how to get her messages across confidently.

The Specs: 12-fret parlor-size body. Solid Sitka spruce top. Rosewood back and sides.

Ani DiFranco is still Buffalo to the bone, but she has lived in New Orleans long enough for that city's immense musical legacy to have slipped beneath her skin.

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 .

A lot has happened in the world since Ani Difranco's last album, Red Letter Year, three years ago, so material wasn't going to be a problem.

Kat : "And you can smell me coming from half way down the street." Oh, Ani. One-time punk 'rocker,' one-time 'lesbian,' one-time 'angry girl,' one-time 'artist' Ani DiFranco is back with another collection certain to prompt the question: Why? DiFranco's talent once included inventive guitar work and brave vocals but it never included good judgment.

If age and/or motherhood have mellowed DiFranco, it does not show. It may have slowed down her usual album-a-year productivity, as this new record arrives nearly four years after the last, but any thoughts that her agitpop approach has been moderated should be dead in the water on recognising that the title track is her updating of the Pete Seeger ... (more)