Widely considered a feminist icon, Grammy winner Ani DiFranco is the mother of the DIY movement, being one of the first artists to create her own record label in 1990. While she has been known as the “Little Folksinger,” her music has embraced punk, funk, hip hop, jazz, soul, electronica and even more distant sounds. Her most recent album is the June 2023 25th Anniversary Edition reissue of her seminal album 'Little Plastic Castle' on Righteous Babe Records.  Her memoir 'No Walls and the Recurring Dream' was a New York Times Top 10 best seller in 2019, and her debut children’s book 'The Knowing' is out now.

Winningly describing themselves as “evil shoegaze boogie woogie”, THE JANITORS are progenitors of their own brand of “stökpsych”. Based in Stockholm and signed to excellent UK psych label Cardinal Fuzz Records and danish bad Afro Records, THE JANITORS appear as an XL proportioned five-piece live. Ever fond of describing their own sound, the band pinpoint their output as “noise, monotony and pop songs”. Drawing inspiration from Spacemen 3, Loop and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, the band are reminiscent of their Scandinavian contemporaries Dead Skeletons in their propulsive, longform psych bliss-outs.

The band’s debut full-length ‘Drone Head’ – which features group touchstone, the colossal 12 minute blow out ‘A-Bow’ – was issued to huge praise in June 2013. DrugPunk Blogspot accurately summed up the disc (and the band as a whole) as “slow-burn scuzz rock with a vengeance”.

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