The Top 35 Albums to Buy in 2010

By Alex Young on January 5th, 2010

Some things are still worth the money…

Cat Power working on new full-length album

By Joe Marvilli on December 4th, 2009

Prepare to be happy.

Update: The Pretenders + Cat Power + Juliette Lewis unveil summer trek

By Alex Young on June 5th, 2009

As we noted yesterday when mentioning all of Juliette Lewis’ friends, the actress turned Juliette and the Licks frontlady turned solo artists will be spending quite a bit of time on the road this summer with fellow estrogen rockers The Pretenders and Cat Power. Today, courtesy of Spin, the dates for their North American tour [...]

Juliette Lewis hangs with everyone from Omar Rodríguez-López to The Pretenders

By Alex Young on June 4th, 2009

Yeah, she’s seriously that cool.

Album Review: Cat Power – Dark End of the Street [EP]

By Adam Kivel on December 26th, 2008

Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, knows how to do covers. It’s really as simple as that. But, it should also be noted that she knows how to turn any song into a low, sleepy dirge. Her voice is perfectly suited to the style though, smokey and full. On her latest release, Dark End of the [...]

Cat Power in a cover kind of mood

By Alex Young on October 2nd, 2008

Turns out Cat Power’s recent commercial friendly cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” foreshadowed things to come. On December 9th, just in time for Christmas, the musician born Chan Marshall, will release a few more on a double 10″ EP entitled Dark End Of The Street on Matador Records. The six track composition, recording during [...]

David Bowie gets auctioned, covered

By Alex Young on September 3rd, 2008

Lots is going on in the world of David Bowie these days. Only this time around, the 61-year-old English native didn’t even have to raise a figure to make headlines. No in fact, it’s Bowie’s previously recorded material that is now earning buzz.
Yesterday, a rare and relatively unheard song, entitled “Mocking Bird”, was included with [...]

CoS at Virgin: Day 1

By E.N. May on August 12th, 2008

Now in its third year, the Virgin Mobile Festival at Pimlico Race Track in Baltimore MD has now made itself the premier festival for the mid-Atlantic region, and thanks to this years lineup, is now known for covering the pop-music spectrum. It was a beautiful weekend for a festival, as temperatures [...]

Bonnaroo around the Web: Saturday

By Alex Young on June 15th, 2008

Pearl Jam played three hours, Eddie Vedder joined Jack Johnson on stage, B.B. King was awarded the key to Manchester, Tennessee, and Kanye West pissed off a lot of people?
Saturday at Bonnaroo sure seemed eventful…

Kanye came on a hour and 45 minutes late – bright and early at 4:25 A.M.
Ben Folds retired “Bitches Ain’t Shit”
Spin [...]

Beck’s new album coming soon

By Alex Young on May 7th, 2008

Beck’s much anticipated eighth studio album, yes the one produced by Gnarls Barkley’s Danger Mouse, could be seeing the light of day in the very near future.
According to MTV.com, the currently untitled upcoming album, which will also apparently feature a guest appearance by Cat Power’s Chan Marshall, could be release in the next four to [...]