Cat Power fought the sound problems that seemed to plague some of the weekend’s other bands, but unlike the rest of the acts she didn’t quite persevere, bothered as she was by a blown eardrum. Chan ...

When Cat Power covered the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" in 2000, it was, and remains, my favorite reinterpretation of any song. The only thing remaining from the original version of ...

Cat Power and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy release sophomore covers records Here they are, Cat Power and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, two stage-named indie-folk touchstones, each issuing a second collection of ...

Listening to the second album of covers by Chan Marshall is a bit like going for a nice stroll off the edge of Niagara Falls. One minute you're looking over the clouds, feeling the air sucked out of ...

Chan Marshall, a k a Cat Power, neatly divides most listeners with her slinky, languid voice and mercurial personality, leaving fans and detractors bickering over her merits while she sails along ...

The first album recorded by Cat Power since she stopped famously drinking herself into stupors shows an intoxicating change in her. Vocally, the woman born Chan Marshall sounds infinitely more engaged ...

Sultry singer Cat Power bares her soul in a profile by Brian Hiatt in the current issue of Rolling Stone, but to whet your appetite, here’s more of their interview that couldn’t fit into the magazine ...

With mash-up masters like Girl Talk and Kanye West in the spotlight of today’s music world, it might appear that the singer-songwriter (? la Bob Dylan) is a thing of the past. Chan (pronounced “Shawn” ...

We test-drive some of today's new music releases with Lizzy Goodman of Blender magazine. The Whigs, from Athens, Ga., are out with a second record. The first, Give 'Em All a Big Fat Lip, was ...

Southern-born singer-songwriter Chan Marshall is no stranger to covers. Under the Cat Power moniker, Marshall has released eight albums, two of them collections in which she reworks the classics. The ...

CONSIDERING that Cat Power’s last album, The Greatest, saw her become the first female ever to win The Shortlist Prize slightly surprising that she has chosen to follow it up with a covers album.