Would anyone mind giving me new musicians/bands to check out, based on what I've been listening to excessively?

Lately I've been listening to a lot of Ani DiFranco (way too much!). I've also been listening to a bit of Aimee Mann, Giant Drag, The Murmurs, and Hole ( ).

I've been listening to a lot of stuff lately, but those are the main ones.

If anyone could recommend something somewhat folky like Ani and Aimee, I would love that. Ani's voice is extraordinary, and Aimee's is so soothing, despite not singing about soothing things.

Anyway! Thanks to anyone who helps.

Not quite pretending this is in any way close to being an actually relevant recommendation, but while working on some compilation thing for a friend, I found myself listening to Giant Drag songs like Tired Yet, and it led me to listen to Morningwood's self-titled debut all over again.

As goes for Ani di Franco, I guess you've already been told about the whole Tori Amos and likes of somewhat "mainstream" female bunch, so I'd say Corinna Fugate.
Her MySpace's located here if you want to hear a few of her songs, and there are excerpts from basically all tracks appearing on her albums available here.

And if you've been into Hole, I guess you may enjoy either / both Jack Off Jill and Scarling., knowing JOJ's pretty much riot grrrl, foxcore and whatever is supposedly accurate and trendy to call it sounding, while Scarling. is, if I may say so, more subtle in the agressivity.

Oh, and for Aimee Man (and perhaps Ani di Franco albeit to a lesser extent), I'd definitely recommend Lauren Hoffman.
Her second full-length From The Blue House is very beautiful in its ethereal folk delicateness of sorts, and her latest Choregraphy's simply stunningly great. A new album is in the works by the way

Last thing, again not necessarily to be thought of as a much relevant recommendation, but because the singer's got a barely imaginable gorgeous voice, Autumn's Grey Solace are fantastic. Try to give songs like Edge Of The World a listen... They're priceless.

PM me if you need help getting hold of any of these

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Poe? Isn´t that this woman?

Anyway you seem to like folky melodic songs
so I guess you would like:

Coco Rosie
Shannon Wright
Tarnation
and surely Cat power

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i'm pretty sure you've heard of them but Tegan and Sara's first two albums (the ones before If it was You) remind me of Ani Difranco. their later albums are pretty good too.

also similar to Ani is Jenny Owen Youngs and MoZella.

while Melanie Horsnell and Sarah Blasko kind of remind me of Aimee Mann.

i gotta say these artists are fairly different from each other, they just seem to appeal to me.

oh and i agree about Autumn's Grey Solace. dreamy much?
also in the same dreamy thing is Ether Aura.