Last week we heard "Ruin," a strikingly upbeat number from Cat Power's new album Sun. Today, NPR's All Songs Considered debuted another track, the album opener "Cherokee." It's a percussive, uptempo…   Read Story »

Chan Marshall hasn't released a new Cat Power album since the 2008 covers collection Jukebox, but she'll return to the game in September with the new LP Sun, an album that she recorded around the…   Read Story »

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 »