R.I.P. musician/DJ Gregg Foreman, 1972-2026

Sadly, my old pal Gregg Foreman of Delta 72, Cat Power, The Gossip, etc, has passed away far too soon. He'll be greatly missed.

Remembering blues great Jessie Mae Hemphill on her birthday

Raising a glass to blues great Jessie Mae Hemphill with a documentary and a few vintage clips including one with Mister Rogers. 

Watch Arsun's video for "Babe I Hear Thunder In Your Heart"

"Babe I Hear Thunder In Your Heart" is the title track of Arsun's new album. Arsun – son of fashion photographer Mario Sorrenti – plays in Cat Power's band.

Arsun's album Babe I Hear Thunder In Your Heart is out March 8th. 

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Arsun Babe I Hear Thunder In Your Heart

ICON Arsun Sorrenti feature

Cat Power reimagines Bob Dylan's 1966 Manchester Free Trade Hall show

Chan Marshall felt that the songs Bob Dylan played at Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1966 could use a Cat Power-style update. 

Here's the scoop...

Recorded November 5, 2022 at London’s vaunted Royal Albert Hall, Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert sees Marshall paying tribute to Bob Dylan with a complete live reimagining of his legendary performance at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in May 1966. Long known as the “Royal Albert Hall Concert” due to a mislabeled bootleg, the original performance saw Dylan switching from acoustic to electric midway through the show, drawing the ire of folk purists and forever altering the course of rock ‘n’ roll. Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert both lovingly honors Dylan’s imprint on history and brings a stunning new vitality to many of his most revered songs, including the recently released “She Belongs to Me” and “Ballad of a Thin Man,” both available everywhere now.

“More than the work of any other songwriter,” says Chan Marshall, “Dylan’s songs have spoken to me, and inspired me since I first began hearing them at 5 years old.”

The artist otherwise known as Chan Marshall will mark the new album’s arrival with three sold-out West Coast performances of Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert, set for West Hollywood, CA’s world-renowned Troubadour (November 6 and 7) and Los Angeles’s historic Palace Theatre (November 8). The upcoming dates mark the show’s first-ever U.S. performances following sold-out shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall in November 2022 and Sydney, Australia’s famed Sydney Opera House in May 2023. “Now we know how much applause it takes to lift the Albert Hall,” wrote The London Times of the debut performance, while The Telegraph summed it up as “pure celebration” in its 4-out-of-5-starred review. Sydney’s Time Out praised “the sheer transcendence” of this spring’s Opera House performance, hailing the experience as “spiked with a deep and enduring sense of timelessness, made all the more potent through Power’s pure vocals. We could’ve been anywhere, at any point in history, anywhere in the solar system…Magnificent.”

There are few voices more deeply embedded in the iconography and mythology of American indie rock than that of Chan Marshall. Under the musical nom de plume of Cat Power, Marshall has released music for nearly 25 years now and her prowess as a songwriter, a producer, and most notably – as a voice – has only grown more influential with time. Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert marks the latest in a series of albums that see Marshall reimagining classics from the American Songbook, rock ‘n’ roll history, and beyond, including 2000’s The Covers Record, 2008’s Jukebox, and 2022’s Covers, the latter of which was hailed by Pitchfork as “her widest ranging yet, illustrating her talent for radical reinvention.”

Now Cat Power recreates Dylan’s epochal 1966 concert – a 15-song set featuring classics like “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” “Mr. Tambourine Man,“ “Like A Rolling Stone” as well as several cuts from Blonde on Blonde including “Just Like A Woman” – with both heartfelt reverence and a deep understanding of the delicate nature of song interpretation. Like the original concert (and all of Dylan’s 1966 world tour), Marshall kept the first half of her set entirely acoustic, then went electric for the second half with the help of a full band including guitarist Arsun Sorrenti, bassist Erik Paparozzi, multi-instrumentalists Aaron Embry (harmonica, piano) and Jordan Summers (organ, Wurlitzer), and drummer Josh Adams. In her own rendition of that historic night, Marshall inhabits each song with equal parts conviction and grace and a palpable sense of protectiveness, ultimately transposing the anarchic tension of Dylan’s set with a warm and luminous joy.

“I had and still have such respect for the man who crafted so many songs that helped develop conscious thinking in millions of people, helped shape the way they see the world,” says Marshall. “So even though my hands were shaking so much I had to keep them in my pockets, I felt real dignity for myself. It felt like a real honor for me to stand there.”

 

Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert

She Belongs To Me 

Fourth Time Around 

Visions Of Johanna 

It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue 

Desolation Row 

Just Like A Woman 

Mr. Tambourine Man 

Tell Me, Momma 

I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) 

Baby, Let Me Follow You Down 

Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues 

Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 

One Too Many Mornings 

Ballad Of A Thin Man 

Like A Rolling Stone 

Cat Power on tour:

Renowned singer-songwriter Cat Power has announced a wide-ranging headline tour that will see her celebrating her acclaimed new live album, Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert, with complete performances of the 15-song concert around the world. North American dates get underway February 12, 2024 at Red Bank, NJ’s historic Count Basie Theater and then continue through mid-March. Highlights include a sold-out performance at New York’s legendary Carnegie Hall (February 14) as well as newly announced shows at Nashville, TN’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s CMA Theater (February 25), Los Angeles, CA’s The Theatre at Ace Hotel (March 7), San Francisco, CA’s Herbst Theatre (March 8), and Portland, OR’s Revolution Hall (March 11). EU/UK dates follow in April, with stops set for prestigious venues in Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. North American tickets go on sale this Friday, November 17 at 10am (local). For complete details and ticket information, please see www.catpowermusic.com/#tour.

In case you missed it,  Cat Power performed “Like A Rolling Stone” on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon which you can watch below. 

Watch Cat Power's video for her version of "I'll Be Seeing You"

Cat Power's wistful reading of "I'll Be Seeing You" is off her forthcoming Covers album out January 14th.

Here's the scoop...

Cat Power, the singer/songwriter/producer Chan Marshall, previews her forthcoming album Covers (Domino) with a fresh interpretation of Billie Holiday's "I'll Be Seeing You" accompanied by a music video. Directed by Greg Hunt, the clip nods to Lady Day as Marshall sings behind a classic 1940’s-style Shure microphone in a cabaret hall evoking the jazz legend’s beautifully restrained vocals.  

“I’ll Be Seeing You” was inspired by recent losses surrounding Marshall’s inner circle of life—including Sun collaborator Philippe Zdar, who tragically passed in 2019.

 

“When people who you love have been taken from you, there’s always a song that holds their memory in your mind,” Marshall ruminates while talking about the importance that the cover itself holds in her heart. “It’s a conversation with those on the other side, and it’s really important for me to reach out to people that way.”

You can pre-order Cat Power's Covers album right here. Watch the video for "I'll Be Seeing You" followed by Billie Holiday's 1944 version for Commodore backed by Eddie Heywood's Orchestra below. 

 

Dave Gahan channels Nick Cave for new Imposter covers project

Judging by recent performances, Depeche Mode mainmain Dave Gahan appears to have been studying the Bad Seeds. 

Cat Power vs. Dead Man's Bones

Watch the new video for Cat Power's cover of Ryan Gosling's "Pa Pa Power" followed by the original Dead Man's Bones version.

Here's the scoop...

Cat Power, the singer/songwriter/producer Chan Marshall, has shared “Pa Pa Power,” a new preview of her forthcoming album Covers out January 14 via Domino. Along with the music video for “Pa Pa Power” - Marshall’s rendition of the Dead Man’s Bones song - she has announced her return to the road with a full band headlining 32-date tour that will cross the US (with one Canadian date in Toronto) from January to May.

 

Watch the Greg Hunt-directed video for “Pa Pa Power” below, filmed at The Echo in Los Angeles https://smarturl.it/PaPaPowerYT

 

On deciding to record “Pa Pa Power,” Marshall says: “I started playing this solo in 2012 (originally more dissonant and trance-y), when the Occupy Wall street protests were going on. Occupy was bunkering down and saying, ‘This shit's fucking fucked up.’ And helping citizens be a voice in their local government. They got a lot of good things done, but the American media killed the movement. I felt like this song was relative to that. The American media has always penalized any sort of social progressiveness and is always the first to express conservative rhetoric against something that is beneficial to the nation. I’d open with this song on the 2013 China tour. ‘Burn the streets, burn the cars.’”

 

Marshall announced the hotly-anticipated Covers in early October with a performance of Frank Ocean’s “Bad Religion” and an interview on The Late Late Show With James Corden. She also shared her “personal favorite,” a cover of the Pogues’ “A Pair Of Brown Eyes.”

 

Produced in its entirety by Marshall, Covers also features reimaginings of recordings by Nick Cave ("I Had A Dream Joe"), Iggy Pop ("Endless Sea"), The Replacements ("Here Comes A Regular"), Billie Holiday ("I'll Be Seeing You"), Lana Del Rey ("White Mustang"), Bob Seger ("Against The Wind"), Jackson Browne ("These Days"), and Kitty Wells ("It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"), plus an updated rendition of the Cat Power song “Hate” from The Greatest (2006), retitled “Unhate” for the album. 

 

The 2022 tour includes 32 shows including a Toronto stop at The Danforth Music Hall on April 19th. See the full list of upcoming tour dates following the video clips below. 

CAT POWER ON TOUR

1-16 Albany, NY - Empire Live

1-18 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club

1-19 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel

1-20 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts

1-22 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club

1-24 Atlanta, GA - Eastern

1-25 Nashville, TN - Brooklyn Bowl

1-27 Houston, TX - House of Blues

1-28 Dallas, TX - Granada Theatre

1-29 Austin, TX - Emo’s

1-31 Tulsa, OK - Cain’s Ballroom

2-02 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre

2-04 Boise, ID - Knitting Factory

2-05 Eugene, OR - McDonald Theatre

2-06 Portland, OR - Revolution Hall

2-07 Seattle, WA - The Showbox

2-09 Sacramento, CA - Ace of Spades

2-10 San Francisco, CA - Castro Theatre

2-11 Los Angeles, CA - The Orpheum Theatre

4-19 Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall

4-21 Detroit, MI -St. Andrews

4-22 Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall Ballroom

4-23 Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theater

4-25 St. Louis, MO - Red Flag

4-26 Indianapolis, IN - The Vogue

4-27 Cleveland, OH - House of Blues

4-29 Pittsburgh, PA - Mr. Smalls Theatre

4-30 Jersey City, NJ - White Eagle Hall

5-1 Port Chester, NY - The Capitol Theatre

5-3 New Haven, CT - Toad's Place

5-5 Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theater

5-6 Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theatre

 

Chan Marshall previews Cat Power's new Covers album

Watch Cat Power perform Frank Ocean's "Bad Religion" off her forthcoming Covers album due in January. 

Here's the scoop...

Cat Power, aka singer, songwriter, musician and producer Chan Marshall, will release her new album Covers on January 14th 2022, via Domino Records. 

The announcement arrives after Cat Power debuted a fresh reimagining of Frank Ocean’s “Bad Religion” on The Late Late Show with James Corden. Watch that performance of “Bad Religion” below.  

Cover songs have always occupied a crucial place in the Marshall canon, and Covers completes a trilogy of sorts, following beloved past Cat Power collections Jukebox (2008) and The Covers Record (2000). While she frequently delights and surprises with the songs she chooses to cover, it’s Marshall’s total commitment to the performance - imbuing the songs with a creative singularity that rivals her original work - that make Cat Power covers so special. Says Pitchfork, Marshall can “rearrange a song simply by squinting at it.”

Produced in its entirety by Marshall, Covers features fully reimagined songs by Frank Ocean, Bob Seger, Kitty Wells, Jackson Browne, Iggy Pop, The Pogues, Nick Cave and more, plus an updated rendition of her own song “Hate” from The Greatest (2006), retitled “Unhate” for this album. 

Marshall’s take on “Bad Religion” originated after performing the excoriating original “In Your Face,” from 2018’s Wanderer, on tour: “That song was bringing me down,” she admits. “So I started pulling out lyrics from ‘Bad Religion’ and singing those instead of getting super depressed. Performing covers is a very enjoyable way to do something that feels natural to me when it comes to making music.”

Covers closes with a powerful take on the Billie Holiday-associated standard “I’ll Be Seeing You,” which was inspired by recent losses within Marshall’s creative inner circle—including Sun collaborator Phillippe Zdar, who tragically passed in 2019. “When people who you love have been taken from you, there’s always a song that holds their memory in your mind,” Marshall says. “It’s a conversation with those on the other side, and it’s really important for me to reach out to people that way.”

Covers is the first album from Cat Power since Wanderer, her widely-acclaimed 2018 Domino debut, which earned rave reviews and features with the New York Times, The Guardian, The Cut, a NPR Tiny Desk, and a duet with Lana Del Rey on "Woman," which The New Yorker called a "trembling manifesto." Marshall’s work as Cat Power has defied genre and convention, her legacy rippling through the work of a wide range of contemporary musical luminaries. 

Covers is available to pre-order now digitally, CD, LP and limited edition silver vinyl LP with an exclusive 7” featuring a cover of the Rolling Stones' "You Got the Silver" from the Domino right here. Watch Cat Power perform Frank Ocean's "Bad Religion" followed by her version of The Pogues' "A Pair Of Brown Eyes"

 

Cat Power – Covers 

Bad Religion - Frank Ocean

Unhate - Cat Power - Chan Marshall

Pa Pa Power - Dead Man’s Bones

A Pair of Brown Eyes - The Pogues

Against the Wind - Bob Seger

Endless Sea - Iggy Pop

These Days – Jackson Browne

It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells

I Had a Dream Joe - Nick Cave

Here Comes a Regular - The Replacements

I’ll Be Seeing You - Billie Holiday

Watch Cat Power perform a Tiny Desk Concert

Chan Marshall (check the happy face mug) performs songs from her Wanderer album. 

Cat Power @ Danforth Music Hall, Tuesday

Chan Marshall will be performing the soulful songs from the new Cat Power album Wanderer out now. 

Cat Power on tour
Mon Oct 8 - Detroit, MI @ The Majestic
Tues Oct 9 - Toronto, ON @ The Danforth Music Hall
Thurs Oct 11 - Cleveland, OH  @ The Agora Theater
Fri Oct 12 - Louisville, KY @ Headliners Music Hall
Sat Oct 13 - Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage
Tues Oct 23 - London, UK @ The Roundhouse
Thurs Oct 25 - Paris, FR @ Le Trianon
Fri Oct 26 -Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique
Sun Oct 28 -Berlin, GE @ Astra
Mon Oct 29 -Zurich, SW @ X-TRA
Tues Oct 30 -Lausanne, SW @ Les Docks
Thurs Nov 1 - Barcelona, SP @ Razzamatazz
Fri Nov 2 - Madrid, SP @ Circo Price
Mon Nov 5 - Bologna, IT @ Estragon Club
Tues Nov 6 - Milan, IT @ Alcatraz
Sat Nov 17 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
Sun Nov 18 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
Tues Nov 20 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
Wed Nov 21 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel
Fri Nov 23 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory OC
Sat Nov 24 - San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
Sun Nov 25 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
Tues Nov 27 - Austin, TX @ Emo's Austin
Wed Nov 28 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
Thurs Nov 29 - Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
Sat Dec 15 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
Sun Dec 16 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
Tues Dec 18 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
Wed Dec 19 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
Thurs Dec 20 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Sat Feb 9 - Parkville, Australia @ Zoo Twilights - Melbourne Zoo
Mon Feb 11 - Sydney, Australia @ The Enmore
Tues Feb 12 - Fortitude Valley, Australia @ The Tivoli

Watch John Doe's new video for Get On Board

John Doe's The Westerner co-produced by Howe Gelb is out April 29 on Cool Rock Records.

JD also has a new book on the LA punk scene.

Chan Marshall's vision of zombie apocalypse

Chan Marshall has created an intriguing video for Cherokee off Cat Power's new Sun album

 

Cat Power album due in September

After a lengthy break between Cat Power studio sets, Matador has slated September 4 for the new SUN album recorded, performed and produced by Chan Marshall primarily at the home studio she built in Malibu. From the upbeat tone of the lead off track Ruin (see the Austin Conroy-directed video clip below), it sounds like SUN could do very well for Marshall and Matador both. Watch for details of a limited-run vinyl editon to be announced soon. If you like the song Ruin, you can momentarily download it for free right here.

SUN track listing:

Cherokee
Sun
Ruin
3,6,9
Always On My Own
Real Life
Human Being
Manhattan
Silent Machine
Nothin But Time
Peace And Love






Ruin by Cat Power



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