Though she’s a skillful songwriter, Chan Marshall, better known as Cat Power, has long been inspired to record and perform the works of other artists she admires. The Atlanta-born Marshall has cut ...

Cat Power has released two singles from her forthcoming album Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert. The singer – real name Chan Marshall – has unveiled her covers of Bob Dylan ...

"Bob [Dylan]'s lyrics taught me how to have critical thinking, because I was always trying to figure out what he was talking about," says Chan Marshall, a.k.a. Cat Power. (Daniel Prakopcyk / For The ...

Chan Marshall, better known by her stage name Cat Power, performed at the 5th Avenue Theater last night. Marshall, whose past Seattle performances seemed to vacillate between walk-outs and shyness, ...

Cat Power’s Chan Marshall is a master of her own sound. She may not be the most virtuosic instrumentalist, nor a classically trained singer, or even have a clear message, but this doesn’t matter. Her ...

This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene. As George Harrison might have said, it’s been ...

On May 17, 1966, Bob Dylan played a concert in England that went down in history. Instead of the topical folk songs he was known for, he brought an electric guitar and a band. And they played loud.

There’s always been something soulful about Chan Marshall’s music. Under the moniker of Cat Power, Marshall makes music that’s cagey, reserved and heavily bent toward the dustier sounds of the South.

A couple weeks ago I got a mailed copy of Elizabeth Goodman’s new Cat Power book, Cat Power: A Good Woman. Although it’s deeply reported, it’s unauthorized; Chan Marshall refused to speak with Goodman ...

be a cast member on SNL, is now totally focused on making music. The change has been clear, with some of the most acclaimed live shows of her career coming in the years since she has been on the wagon ...

Chan Marshall is a cougar. She fits the mold: a barfly, someone aging but not old, someone caught between two versions of herself — old and wise, young and dumb. Picture her there, her umpteenth ...

When Chan Marshall ends a romantic relationship for one reason or another — “They’ve gone with someone else,” she offers by way of example, “or they die or they become insane” — she typically cuts her ...