British chanteuse Lily Allen has a new album coming out next month. But she says getting the word out hasn't been without its snags, since radio stations won't play her song "Sheezus" because it has the word "period" in it.
Thanks to Ani DiFranco, it's only the second day of 2014 and we've already got an apology for a non-apology. Crazy, right?
Today in "whaaaaaaaat," feminist icon Ani DiFranco has cancelled her four-day "Righteous Retreat," a songwriting workshop for women. It was cancelled because it was going to be held at the Nottoway Plantation — one of the largest former plantations in the South, which now functions as a museum in which the horrors of…
One of our readers was at an Ani DiFranco concert when a, um, suitor slipped her this note. Wrong venue, dude.
Ani DiFranco stopped by — of all places — the Wall Street Journal Cafe to promote her new album "Red Letter Year." Although initially named for a song about Katrina hitting her home of New Orleans, she says it seems like a more prescient title now that Barack Obama has won the Presidency. Despite the fact that her…
Prominent third-wave feminist activist and writer Jennifer Baumgardner (Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism And The Future) made a splash three years ago when she distributed a controversial t-shirt that had, writ large on the front: "I Had An Abortion," and was worn by Gloria Steinem, Ani DiFranco, and countless women's…
