Next month, singer/songwriter/feminist/activist Ani DiFranco will release her memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream. In conjunction with the book’s release, she’ll embark on a summer tour. She performs with Lucy Wainwright Roche on June 13 at Cain Park.

Next month, DiFranco will also release a No Walls Mixtape, her current take on the songs related to the memoir.

“So here is my mixtape for you, like the kind that I would make you on cassette if it was, like, 1993 and I was really into you,” she says in a press release. “It’s a flight of Ani songs that I took the liberty of revisiting, solo stylie, twenty… (thirty?!) years later, songs that factor (either literally or figuratively) into my memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream.”

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This article appears in Apr 10-16, 2019.

Jeff has been covering the Cleveland music scene for more than 25 years now. On a regular basis, he tries to talk to whatever big acts are coming through town. And if you're in a local band that he needs to hear, email him at jniesel@clevescene.com.