Many singer-songwriters go through different stages throughout their careers due to mood changes or focus shifts: Daniel Johnston stopped writing songs about Laura; Bill Callahan changed his voice, changed his name, and changed his name again; and Cat Power (as well as the previous mentioned artists) got slicker recordings, slicker backup musicians, and started heading away from her sad and ...

... : Where?Chan: To black Friday?Me: Well yeah, your dad and I are gonna be there at three in the morning.Chan: But we're not black.Me: (trying desperately not to bust out laughing.) Honey, what do you ... were screaming. Then as luck would have it thirty minutes later we ran out of turkey and Marshall actually said, "Nana, I guess you were right, it is too small." Just know that twenty ...

... problem to crushing and injecting Oxycontin. This is the place where all senses are deadened, where the mind cannot function because it is trapped in its own overstimulation. This, I am sure, is where media theorists from Marshall McLuhan to Neil Postman to Douglas Rushkoff assured us that the inherently liberating force of information technology was leading us. And though I am sure they knew ...

... career Chan Marshall, the woman behind Cat Power, moved from intimate singer-songwriter ... ; Marshall told an Australian newspaper that she will be recording the follow up to her 2008 covers record Jukebox& ... fewest walls between her and the listener, so it will be interesting to hear Marshall striking out on her own once again, something she hasn't done since 2003's You Are Free. ...

... particularly happy by the news. Discussing the new material with Pitchfork, the musician born Chan Marshall said, “It’s just me this time… I don’t know ... America that wrapped up in September. There’s no word on a release date yet but we do know that Marshall will be trekking Down Under for a few dates before and after New Year’s Day. Cat Power 2009/2010 Tour ...

... material since 2006's The Greatest. Though the record is still in the very early stages of development, Chan Marshall chatted about it in an interview with Australia's Courier-Mail that ran today. ... are sad again and I feel really nervous about that." Not exactly definitive, but it's something. Marshall is set to tour Australia with her Dirty Delta Blues band in December and ...

... I realize that my tastes can be a bit different than most, but I'm truly surprised that Chan Marshall's release from 2003 doesn't ... a personal tone to it. As later albums have proven, with a little bit of help, Chan's voice can sound dang near perfect at ... Cobain references (and reverences) is absolutely haunting as Chan sounds as if she was walking dangerously close to the same line ...

... ahead of her December/January band tour down under, Chan Marshall of Cat Power has revealed an interesting ... Greatest has no release date as yet and is still very early on in its genesis, but Chan says she is working on the songs alone for the time being and not with the Dirty Delta ... 8217;m at a point where my heart tells me, ‘Chan, you haven’t played piano or guitar for four or five years ...

... the seventh studio album by indie rock artist Chan Marshall, a.k.a Cat Power. It debuted at #34 on the Billboard 200, her highest charting album at the ... Easley, Jim Spake, Scott Thompson and Susan Marshall. String arrangements were contributed by Harlan T. Bobo and Jonathan ... the 2006 Shortlist Music Prize, making Marshall the first woman to win the honor. It was also named the number 6 ...

... ... 50 Cat Power The Greatest MATADOR 2006 You could perhaps forgive Chan Marshall for a moment of understandable hubris with her album title. After six ... albums since she began performing as Cat Power in 1995, Marshall hit a career high with this warm collection of country ... key reference points for The Greatest, and provided a perfect fit for Marshall's smoky, melancholic voice. 49 PJ HARVEY ...

... to the distant past. Recording her ninth album, Chan Marshall —the songstress who is Cat Power— was reminded, ... , of recording her fourth, Moon Pix. Coincidentally enough, Marshall made Moon Pix, regarded by many as her magnum opus, ... to witness. And, in the middle of all this, in the midst of the glaring heat, Marshall holed up in a darkened studio, often with only an engineer alongside her, ...

Chan Marshall, the smokey-voiced songstress better known to the world as Cat Power, has announced that her next album will be recorded without the backing musicianship of her longtime friends in Dirty Delta Blues. She recently spoke to The Courier-Mail and revealed, “…I’m at a point where my heart tells me, Chan, you haven’t played piano

In a new interview with Australian site Courier Mail, Cat Power aka Chan Marshall has announced some interesting details regarding her next album. The follow-up to 2008's covers-heavy Jukebox is most likely due sometime next year and during the interview, Miss Marshall spoke out about the decision to leave her backing band The Dirty Delta Blues behind for this next outing.

... One I Pick” There is a distinct Moon Pix thing happening in this song, not simply in that Lucinda Chua’s voice somewhat recalls that of Chan Marshall, but in that it evokes the same sort of sad grey emptiness. There’s no solid center to the composition, and though the melodic lines that seem to float through the piece have rich, ...

... 's influence on my music taste. this is another great album. Moon Pix - Cat Power (electric folk) i've recently started listening to Chan Marshall a lot lately. something about her breathy vocals just has me hooked. Creepin' On Ah Come Up - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (hip hop) a classic, one of the many soundtracks to my ...