Word: anis
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...most immediately striking aspect of Ani DiFranco’s new double album Revelling/Reckoning is the packaging. The CD case is a multi-colored colored box of yellow and blue, folded intricately to cradle the two compact discs of similar colors within, with accompanying photo and lyric booklets. At first, it is a bit difficult to open, but unlike many situations in life, the cover does allow for an accurate judgment of the content within. The original packaging is a tangible manifestation of the original and catchy style that Ani exudes in the 29 new songs that she offers...
...precise. It's always a source of mystery to me that the Housemartins broke up and spawned such disparate sounds as the Beautiful South's masterful ironic pop and Fatboy Slim's. More famous bands coming into town are: Hootie and the Blowfish (October 25, Avalon), Ani DiFranco (October 26-27, Orpheum) and, inevitably, the Squirrel Nut Zippers (October 27, the Roxy...
...their hands on one or two good songs. It also unlocks--and makes available for download--the greatest music library in the history of the world, much of it all but forgotten by the major labels. A few clicks of that mouse, and in streams bootleg Led Zeppelin or Ani DiFranco's instrumental version of the old communist anthem Internationale or--Joe Lieberman, take note--Hebrew prayer chants from the world's leading cantors...
...Coltrane and Nelson Mandela. In addition to his frequent readings around New York City and his musical theater work (most notably 1994's The Mystery of Love), Sundiata works a day job teaching literature at the New School for Social Research. Among his first students was indie rock queen Ani DiFranco, who later remarked that he taught her everything she knows about poetry. Released on DiFranco's Righteous Babe record label, longstoryshort is a lesson both in what it means to be black in America and in the possibilities available within the spoken word medium...