Chan Marshall may well have (albeit belatedly) wound up in the UK last night though she wasn't stood out with the smokers of Euston Road, but instead busying herself with the serenading of Jools Holland's studio audience over at The Maidstone Studios, Kent where rather than revisiting anything from the abnormally rowdy Sun LP of yesteryear, she instead opted to air a slight obscurity entitled Bully. Ostensibly aimed right between Giovanni Ribisi's two peepers, the track plaintively harks back to Cat Power standout album The Greatest as Marshall mourns the demise of better times, crooning [...]

A quick peruse of the recently released Golden Plains Lucky Seven set times tells you one thing: you'll need to be full of beans until well into the wee hours, as some of the highlights come late late on Saturday night. Taking place at the Meredith Supernatural Ampitheatre in Victoria, this festival is beaut by virtue of the fact that it all happens on one stage. There are no hellish clashes and no excruciating sacrifices to make. Easy as pie! You can see CAT POWER [...]

Everybody loves a beautiful songstress. Whether she can wail the extremely high notes like MARIAH CAREY , or rock in front of a band like HAYLEY WILLIAMS , nothing beats a girl who loves to sing. CAT POWER is one girl that no one can seem to get enough of. CHAN MARSHALL 's beautiful voice echoes in your head whether your listening to her music or not - she is someone who just sticks. Her track ‘Cherokee’ was one that people couldn’t get enough of, and of course [...]
Above is a muddied amalgam of the artwork to each of our freshly completed Tracks of 2012 rundown , dubiously fangled on a newly acquired and equally dodgy copy of Photoshop, and below is our ongoing attempt to grapple with the finer intricacies of musical technologies. It's the first, and could well be the last Spotify playlist I ever so painstakingly compile, and it features our every entry (or rather the 28 that, at the time of writing, were hooked up to their mainframe, or whatever the correct technical term would be for that). That our topspot is in [...]

Indie babe Chan Marshall aka CAT POWER goes blonde for the clip for her single 'Cherokee' from new album Sun . And boy does it get supernatural (crystals! glowing triangles!) and violent. Marshall and friends flee persecution through the post-apocalyptic American desert. Although she seems really quite distressed, she's still go her cigs and her beer and is always ready to go. She's got her hard arse bad grrl outfit, new blonde locks and a pair of combat boots- [...]
Como si el fin del mundo o las epidemias de zombies no fueran problemas lo suficientemente chonchos, a cineastas y videoastas les ha gustado desde siempre contar historias del fin del mundo o persecuciones de muertos vivientes situando a sus personajes en el inhóspito entorno del desierto. No sé exactamente qué clase de personajes ni qué situación retrata " Cherokee ", el nuevo video de Cat Power, pero hay desierto, armas, zombies que nunca se despeinan, motos, patinetas, y un encuentro entre personajes modernos que luchan por su supervivencia y nativos americanos.

I'm starting to get pumped about this new Cat Power record. I'm a long time fan of the songwriter, yet the first single "Ruin" from Chan Marshall's new album may be one of my favorite tracks from her already impressive career. Today we get a second taste of Sun , her first album of original material since 20062s The Greatest, and it sure is delicious. The new jam "Cherokee" is underlined by a beautiful piano-led melody and steady locomotive percussion. It's another powerful tune. Not only that, Matador was kind enough to provide us with a Nicolas Jaar [...]

Our favourite distressed yet lovely lady Chan Marshall AKA CAT POWER is working on a new album, Sun . Finally. It’s been six years since her last original LP, The Greatest . Six years too long. Over the course of a twenty-year career, full of despondency, peppered with angst, and salted with her powerhouse vocals, Cat Power has gained many lovers, and sure, a few haters. But those people just don’t appreciate the kind of tell-it-like-it-is lyrical genius that comes to this woman- who by the way totally gets [...]

The memorable three note guitar riff powering the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was intended as a throwaway placeholder to be replaced with a blaring horn section. The band ultimately decided to stick with the guitar, and, according to Mick Jagger, it was that track that "changed [The Rolling Stones] from just another band into a huge, monster band." The track ended up being the band's first-ever number one hit in the United States. Initially the song was only played on pirate radio stations in England because the lyrics were considered too sexually suggestive but it later became [...]

Acabado el frenesí de Lollapalooza, recuperado el ritmo cardiaco luego de 2 días de recorrer escenarios, saltar, bailar, dejarse apretar por la muchedumbre y ser testigos de un verdadero festival en Chile, llegó la calma. Era hora de mirar las cosas con distancia y qué mejor que hacerlo escuchando uno de los shows que más sufrió con el despelote que se armó en el Teatro La Cúpula la tarde del domingo. La marca Rosen organizó un show paralelo que tendría como protagonista a Charlyn Marshall. Cat Power se presentaría en el Centro Cultural Amanda, en un show que [...]

*Escrito en colaboración con Gabriel Pinto. Se tratan de pasar de listos esos que no dicen nada, a quienes pareciera no interesarles. Aquellos snobs que disparan en contra de los festivales y la cultura del "rock de festivales", porque así no se pueden ver bien a las bandas, porque es indigno ver a Cat Power de día, porque las entradas son caras. Que los cabezas de cartel son impresentables. Porque capaz que llueva. Pero no confundirse, que también se pasan de listos los otros, los entusiastas, los que con la cara llena de risa [...]

Inspirados en el topic revelación de nuestro recientemente inaugurado foro, iniciamos un nuevo segmento en Super 45 dedicado a todas aquellas almas solitarias que pululan por la escena independiente y que se encuentran en búsqueda del amor. En esta ocasión, contaremos el caso de Alejandro, un joven salvadoreño de 20 años que en su afán por conquistar el corazón de su enamorada, ha decidido escribir al selecto staff de este sitio web para que le recomendemos las mejores canciones indies que sean capaces de llegar al alma de su chica [...]

ARGHHHH. The new additions to the Lilith Fair line-up are giving us mega moral dilemmas. On one hand, we are semi-vehemently opposed to attending a festival that segregates our gender as a matter of course because, you know, PRO GENDER INTEGRATION. On the other hand, many non-gender oriented festivals are basically gi-normous sausage parties that are man-segregated without saying so. ON THE THIRD HAND, the Lilith Fair Oh Ten lineup is getting BONKERS! Acts just added include: punkbluesmonsters The Gossip, folkmonster Lissie, theatremonster Marina & the Diamonds, pianomonster Norah Jones, Tijuanamonster Ceci Bastida, and this person Cat Power [...]
En un concierto extenso, Chan Marshall –alias Cat Power - entregó lo mejor de sí arriba del escenario del Teatro Caupolicán de Santiago. La estadounidense interpretó de manera impecable lo más nuevo de su repertorio, volcado hacia el folk y el soul, apoyada de manera sólida por The Dirty Delta Blues Band. Con una buena muestra de temas recientes –algunos incluso todavía inéditos-, Marshall dio fe del buen momento musical por el que atraviesa. Su grupo cuenta con músicos como Jim White (el baterista de Dirty Three) y Judah Bauer (guitarra en The Blues Explosion) y, por [...]

Mientras craneamos nuestro comentario, déjanos el tuyo. Fotos por Cristal en Vivo y Mono Parra . Articulos relacionados: Confirmado: Cat Power viene a Chile el 21 de julio Cat Power - New York, New York en el show de Jay Leno Cat Power - What Would the Community Think (Matador)
Running on four hours of sleep, I allowed myself to be dragged to watch Cat Power & The Dirty Delta Blues Band perform at the Avalon. She was wonderful, of course, with her trademark breathy vocals, and characteristic, fidgety stage presence as she performed her renditions of classics from her albums, "Jukebox" (January 2008) and [...]

I just re-watched the Vinyl documentary with Nicci yesterday, and burnt a copy of it to CD for one of my bosses, so of course I feel compelled to speak about record collecting today. I'm not going to discuss the process of acquiring new albums, or the analyze the psychology of someone who attempts to fill holes in their life with material possessions. I'm going to rant about how more and more bands and record labels are engaging in "limited edition" releases as a last-ditch effort to make dwindling audiences more greatly appreciate their recorded output. [...]