Chan Marshall keeps it pretty real on the Cat Power Twitter handle, so this one's all her. New album announcement: I HAVE FINISHED MY RECORD.— chan marshall (@CATPOWER) April 21,…   Read Story »

Cat Power had been planning to play a 2/13 show in Tel Aviv, but on her Facebook, she claims that she won't be playing that show after all. After initially posting something about figuring out a way…   Read Story »

As promised via her Twitter over the last week, today Cat Power unveiled a new version of "King Rides By" (originally from her '96 LP What Would the Community Think) and a Giovanni Ribisi-directed…   Read Story »

Chan, take it away: Exciting! It's been a while.   Read Story »

Tonight, as anyone who's been near a TV in the past month already knows, the much-hyped Fox singing-competition show The X Factor makes its debut. The Americanized version of the hit British show…   Read Story »

Chan Marshall performed a slow, spacious new Cat Power song Friday 2/4 at the Fillmore in San Francisco. She was backed by the Dirty Delta Blues Band aka Dirty Three's Jim White, Jon Spencer Blues…   Read Story »

So that happened. It'll take a few days of drying out and shutting eyes to come to terms with all that transpired in Las Vegas this weekend, though in the spirit of Matador's three-day, boozy, purely…   Read Story »

When we posted the Outside Lands festival lineup, we mentioned how the San Fransisco festival tried to fit it "between a jam and a rock space," especially with Further (featuring the Grateful…   Read Story »

Jesus Lizard put on great shows in the '90s. Just as intense, albeit in a different way, were Guided By Voices' acrobatic karate-kicking, beer-swilling collagist epics. It's unclear if Robert Pollard…   Read Story »

Vivian Girls' Katy Goodman, aka Kickball Katy, and Cat Power keyboardist/guitarist/ex-Delta 72 dude Gregg Foreman have a new project, All Saints Day. The first available track "I'll Come Around"…   Read Story »