Artists To Watch In 2026: Ani Kyd Wolf

Ani Kyd Wolf is a Canadian Metis vocalist, musician, director, writer, producer. She started the film company Sugar Skull Films in 2010 and has been creating various multimedia projects ever since. Ani has been in the entertainment industry for over 30 years, starting her career out and continuing as a musician and vocalist.

Ani Kyd has been a member of the Alternative Tentacles roster since 2005 and in 2016 she became Ani Kyd Wolf. She started out in the 1990’s as the fierce lead singer for the punk band Rumble Fish, then guitarist and vocalist for the grunge style female fronted group Spank Machine with Gerry Jenn Wilson. Ani has played in various bands in the Vancouver area for over 30 year and in that time has played with some incredible musicians along the way, Gene Hoglan, Byron Stroud, Brian Goble, John Card and so many more. Ani played guitar for THOR in the early 2000’s and is on THOR’s 2003 album “Triumphant” as well as being in many of THOR’s videos.

She has sung back up vocals on a Jello Biafra album or two and in 2005 she released her first album on Alternative Tentacles called “Evil Needs Candy Too”. She then released two more albums “Past Demons” in 2011 and “ Entangle” in 2014. On Aug 15th 2023 A.T. released Ani’s fourth album, the 30 year old recording of Spank Machine “ Spank You Very Much”. This was a tribute album to the late Gerry Jenn Wilson. “The Last Steps of Man-Un-Kind” is Ani’s 5th album on A.T.

Hot on the heels of releasing "The Last Steps Of Man-Unkind", her latest solo album on Alternative Tentacles this last year and after dropping a 7 Music Videos (you can see them all on the Alternative Tentacles YouTube Channel), Ani Kyd Wolf immediately started a new project with some of her collaborators called the Royal Strays out of Vancouver! 

Her latest solo album is now streaming everywhere and available on CD