Cat Power: Last News

Pixies and Modest Mouse have announced their joint 2024 US tour with Cat Power which is set to kick off later this year.The co-headlining tour will see Power provide opening support and is set to kick off on Friday, May 31 at the Firefly Distillery in Charleston, South Carolina. From there, the are set to make stops in major cities such as Nashville, Atlanta, Pittsburg, Toronto, Philadelphia, Queens, Mansfield, Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Austin, Irving and more.The tour will wrap up on Sunday, June 30 at Fiddler’s Green in Denver, Colorado.

Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy turned into chaos last night (February 28).The two leaders met in Washington D.C. with the intention of securing a minerals and defence deal.

Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst has spoken to NME about “megalomaniac” Elon Musk, “bullshit” artificial intelligence, his hopes and fears about the forthcoming US presidential election, and how all of this and more has fed into the band’s new album ‘Five Dice, All Threes’.The band’s 11th album, and their second since their return from hiatus with 2020’s ‘Down In The Weed Where The World Once Was‘, features collaborations with Cat Power and The National’s Matt Berninger, and was co-written in part by Oberst and Alex Levine (aka Alex Orange Drink) of New York indie punks The So So Glos.“Alex was in LA in the winter of 2023 writing songs with Tim Armstrong from Rancid and Operation Ivy who has a studio here for different projects,” Oberst told NME. “He was staying with me at my house and I think he got sick of just watching me smoke cigarettes on my porch doing nothing.“He was like, ‘What are you doing today? Nothing? OK, well let’s write a song.’ We started hanging out with guitars on the porch, very old school, and wrote a lot of songs.

Jack White and Cat Power are amongst those who have paid their respects to the rockabilly musician – read their tributes below.From the Romweber Family, "It is our sad duty to inform the world that our beloved youngest brother John Michael…Posted by Dex Romweber on Friday, February 16, 2024Described by his family as a “singer, guitarist, artist and bon vivant”, Dexter was a significant figure in the roots-rock underground. Born in Batesville, Indiana as the youngest of seven and growing up in Florida, the Romweber family eventually settled in Chapel Hill, North Carolina when Dexter was eleven.From there, Dexter would play in a number of bands, but come to notoriety with the Flat Duo Jets.

Cat Power and Iggy Pop have covered ‘Working Class Hero’ in an upcoming tribute album to Marianne Faithfull.Back in November, it was announced that a Faithfull covers album was in the works, with the likes of Shirley Manson and Peaches set to duet on ‘Why D’Ya Do It’.Now, Cat Power and Iggy Pop have teamed up to cover ‘Working Class Hero’, originally written by John Lennon and covered by Faithfull herself in her album ‘Broken English’ (1979).In a statement, Power said of Faithfull: “Marianne has lived a life!! She is a queen to all who know her, and all who adore her! Her framework of contributions to the world of music is unmistakable! Every time I hear her gorgeous vocal sway, I am moved, I am closer to permanence. In a world of dizzying, new fizzling arrows of song and voices, Marianne has always struck the bullseye of my heart and soul. I adore her like no other.

Cat Power has released her covers of Bob Dylan‘s ‘Mr Tambourine Man’ and ‘Like A Rolling Stone’, taken from her upcoming live Dylan tribute album.Back in July 2022, the singer-songwriter announced that she would be recreating Bob Dylan’s 1966 Royal Albert Hall show in full. The original gig appeared towards the end of the ‘Dylan goes electric’ tour, where Dylan actually played the Manchester Free Trade Hall. However, a bootlegged version of the concert mislabelled its location, and it has been known as the ‘Royal Albert Hall’ show ever since.Power officially played the recreated gig in November 2022, where she spoke to The Guardian beforehand: “It’s important for me to not do my thing.

Pixies, Modest Mouse and Cat Power have announced a joint tour of North America – see all the dates below and buy tickets here.The three bands will hit the road in August and September, and they come in addition to upcoming May dates for Pixies in support of their new album ‘Doggerel’.The tour begins in Asbury Park, New Jersey on August 20, running for the following month before finishing up in San Diego, California on September 16.See the full list of tour dates below. Tickets are on sale on Friday, March 31 at 10am local time.

Cat Power, aka Chan Marshall has today (April 21) shared a new video for her cover of The Pogues hit, ‘A Pair Of Brown Eyes’ – check out the video below.The video has been directed by Paterson director Jim Jarmusch and it’s the first time the pair have collaborated on a work together.Speaking about the project, Jarmusch said: “As someone who deeply loves Cat Power’s music, getting to collaborate with [Cat Power] on this video was like a dream come true,”“She’s so inspiring to me, of course as an artist, but she’s also just such an extraordinary person.”Watch the video here:The track is taken from Power’s latest album, ‘Covers’, which sees the musician interpreting other people’s songs.In a review of the album, NME said: “There’s nothing in the world like a Cat Power cover version. The artist also known as Chan Marshall made herself known as one of the 21st century’s finest interpreters of other artists’ material – her re-imaginings as emotionally devastating as they are decidedly dreamlike – at the very beginning of the millennium.“…Often, cover records are dismissed as simply a bit of fun or as an indulgent aside to an artists’ original output, but when Cat Power does it, it’s nothing less than soul-nourishing.” Meanwhile, Cat Power is among the new support acts that have been announced for Pearl Jam‘s pair of Hyde Park shows this summer.Pearl Jam will play at the BST Hyde Park series in central London on July 8 and 9, with Pixies already set to support the band on the opening night.BST Hyde Park announced a host of support acts for both shows.

Cat Power, has revealed that Lana Del Rey was one of the few people to reach out to her after she was dropped by her label, Matador.In an interview with NME, Marshall shared that Del Rey invited her out on the road during a difficult time in her career.“When I was told that my last record ‘Wanderer’ was no good, there was a year where I didn’t have a label,” she told NME. “There’s about 200 people that were affiliated with what I thought was my family who never checked in with me… [I thought], ‘I guess I can sell my apartment and I’ll just raise my son, I’ll move somewhere and try to get into writing… I’m a really good waitress and cook and stuff, and I can just get a good stable job and start a different career’.”At the time Marshall said that she felt “totally not part of any musical community” and “dumped by my family”.

Cat Power has confirmed details of a covers album, due for release in 2022. The album, aptly titled Covers, is due on January 14 via Domino Records.