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Cat Power preps for charity journey to Africa, India
For most of us, this Christmas Day will consist of shuffling around in pajamas and present-littered floors with Ralphie's pudgy face crowding our televisions as A Christmas Story mumbles in the background. Ditching the annual BB gun quest, Chan Marshall will jet to impoverished countries to visit waterless hospitals and find places for new wells. On her MySpace blog, the caps lock-happy Marshall writes about her charity: water-sponsored trip: RWANDA POSTPONED !! CHARITY ROUTING CHANGED: NOW, WE'RE GOING TO ETHIOPIA, KENYA, INDIA, BANGLADESH, AND SOME OTHER PLACES THAT I PROBABLY COULD NEVER SPELL CORRECTLY, BY 4X4 IN BETWEEN THOSE SAID... read more
Found in: Music, NewsCat Power fires up Jukebox
Give Cat Power's PR team a hand, folks! Over the past few weeks they've been teasing us with incremental details about this new covers record of hers. Not even a proper compilation of original material, mind you! We're talking about karaoke night with the Dirty Delta Blues, here. Now that Chan Marshall has kept her band name alive through multiple news cycles, we can finally bring this ultimate news item for you. Her new covers record, entitled Jukebox, has cover art and a track list. At last! Above, you can glimpse that wonderful tri-colored artwork (courtesy of Pitchfork), and below,... read more
Found in: Music, NewsCat Power names new covers album
Why don’t more artists release cover albums? It seems like the perfect parenthetical, the suitable stopgap, the healthy halfway point between albums. Putting alliteration aside, Chan Marshall (sole proprietor of Cat Power) is one artist who made her dedication to the cover well-known. So much so, that she’s releasing her second album of reworked songs by other people, Jukebox, on Jan. 22, via Matador. Just as on 2000’s The Covers Record, Marshall will also have a couple of her own songs in the mix, including “Metal Heart” and “Song to Bobby.” Though the track list remains elusive, you can catch... read more
Found in: Music, NewsCat Power Covers old ground
Perhaps tired of being The Greatest, Cat Power sole proprietor Chan Marshall is instead working on another covers album tentatively titled Cover Record 2. She and her new band, the Dirty Delta blues, are in the midst of mixing the cover songs in Dallas. On her MySpace, Marshall also writes “…this adaptation and personalizing of old songs is largely absent in modern music.” But what about the busloads of Radiohead tributes, or the mass-butchering of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah?!” We'll trust you, Chan, but you're leaving us to pine for more of your original songs. She also writes she may release... read more
Found in: Music, NewsCat Power May Be New Face Of Chanel
Not only does Chan “Cat Power” Marshall have smokin’ pipes, but smokin’ good looks — enough to be a new face for Chanel. According to Idolator.com, fashion designer Karl Lagerfield spotted the chanteuse smoking outside a New York hotel and said, “Only a woman — she — can look glamorous while smoking.” Check out the full story here.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsCat Power
Newly sober Chan Marshall gets goofy with the Memphis Rhythm Band. read more
Found in: Concerts, ReviewsCat Power Releases Online EP
Chan Marshall, better known as acoustic songstress Cat Power, released an online exclusive EP today from a session recorded on Santa Monica’s KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic program last June. Available through digital mp3 outlet eMusic, the album features solo renditions of Cat Power tracks "The Greatest" and "Good Woman," alongside covers of Hank Williams’ "Ramblin’ Man" and Otis Redding’s "Remember Me." Matador Records reissued Cat Power’s latest album, The Greatest, on September 12 with three different slipcase covers. Marshall also released an exclusive iTunes Cat Power Live Session last September featuring a cover of The Animals’ "House Of The Rising... read more
Found in: Music, NewsCat Power - The Greatest
Prozac Nation Goes Honky Tonk... read more
Found in: Music, Reviews20 Signs of Life From 2003
What a year it’s been for Chan (pronounced "Shawn") Marshall—a.k.a. Cat Power—the seductive song deconstructress and occasional model. In the wake of her first record of original material in four years, You Are Free, she toured extensively, appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, and was featured in nearly every magazine on the planet from GQ to The New Yorker. It all seems rather amazing for an artist who, on any given night, may not finish—or even begin—a gig because of disabling stage fright and other artistic or personal difficulties. But You Are Free earns the accolades. In one... read more
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