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Artists and audiences are always talking about not selling out, about not buying in, about the eternal struggle to prevent very personal art from becoming just another upc-bearing product put out by yet another megaconglomerate. Everyone talks about it, but folk singer Ani DiFranco walks it. A native of Buffalo, New York, who now lives in New York City's East Village, she is only 25 years old but has already managed to found her own record company (the not altogether ironically titled Righteous Babe Records), to release eight solo records (with total sales of more than...
...which would be just so much familiar sloganeering if DiFranco's music wasn't so scathingly worthwhile. Her earlier albums, which featured songs with only her voice and a scratchy acoustic guitar, had a sort of subterranean urgency, like that of a subway performer rushing to finish a song and earn a few quarters before the train roars into the station. DiFranco's new CD, Dilate, is her best yet--her vocals and guitar work still seethe, but she's added atmospheric touches, such as a trippy hip-hop beat on a cover of the song Amazing Grace. Like Beck...
With the exception of the very popular Frappier, none of these are regularly patronized by Yale students. The students' favorite, the Taft Hotel shop, rated 97. Other choices: Emil Kossack, York St. (over the Jigger Shop), 93; Louis Miller, High St., 96. Sheffield Scientific School men go to Joseph DiFranco, Wall St.. 96; Gus Klein, Grove St. (near a beer joint...