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  Cat Power Expatriates to Begin New Nation Built on Three-Party System (or Something)

  May 20, 2013 – Well, Cat Power's Chan Marshall is leaving us, it seems. In a spirited new Instagram post — her preferred dispensation method for general batshitttery — the talented singer-songwriter announced that she's leaving America until ... well, someone's fixed the damned thing. …
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  Cat Power Illuminates Gorgeous New Song 'Bully' on BBC Radio

  May 9, 2013 – Cat Power's Chan Marshall has graced us with another chance to hear her heartbreaking piano-and-vocals ballad "Bully," and she has also offered the faintest of hints about its origins. Marshall debuted the wrenching reminiscence on BBC's Later... With Jools Holland last month, and you can buy it on iTunes, but the video of her TV performance is no longer available in the United States. …
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  See Cat Power Debut Devastating New Song 'Bully' on 'Jools Holland'

  April 10, 2013 – Chan Marshall's newest song as Cat Power ends with an ambiguous promise: "I could never forget." It's ambiguous because the track, "Bully," which she performed with a pianist last night on BBC's Later... With Jools Holland (via Pitchfork) and now released on iTunes, is gorgeously, deeply tragic. That's there in the sparse, aching piano chords, and her smoky, poised vocal. …
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  Watch Cat Power's Lighthearted, Life-Affirming 'Manhattan' Video

  April 4, 2013 – Pay no attention to your weather apps, New Yorkers: Spring is here. Though the temperature across much of the United States might keep tipping back toward wintry levels, Cat Power's new video for "Manhattan" is a warm ray of hope-restoring sunshine, in a couple of ways. …
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  Fred Armisen Picks His 5 Favorite Dave Grohl Drum Performances

  February 21, 2013 – "When Dave Grohl was going to be on the show [with Them Crooked Vultures]," recalls Saturday Night Live castmember and Portlandia costar Fred Armisen, "I thought, 'How can I get this amazing drummer in a sketch?'" The resulting "Crisis of Conformity" performance occupies a special place in Armisen's musical memory, but the former Trenchmouth drummer, who, it must be said, bears an uncanny resemblance to percussion virtuoso Jens Hanneman …
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  Cat Power Goes Cloud-Rap With Angel Haze on Dazzling 'Manhattan' Remix

  January 28, 2013 – After a health scare last year, Chan Marshall is set to perform tomorrow night at Manhattan venue Terminal 5. A perfect day, then, for the Cat Power singer and songwriter to reveal a remix that's doubly indebted to New York City's most storied borough. The newfound electronic pulse of last year's Essential album Sun lends itself well to remixes, as producer Nicolas Jaar's mesmerizing "Cherokee" rework demonstrated. …
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  Cat Power Is Healed, Announces Brief U.S. Tour

  December 18, 2012 – Last month, Cat Power was forced to cancel her European tour because of the threat of bankruptcy and a medical condition called angioedema, a skin condition that causes rapid swelling, itching, and rashes. The illness made it impossible for the Sun singer to perform onstage, and required her to cut out her steady diet of alcohol and cigarettes. …
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  Anti-YouTube Movement of the Year: Long Songs

  December 17, 2012 – The received wisdom is that popular music is the province of short attention spans, which are only getting shorter: Listeners only care about callout hooks; albums are obsolete now that they're purchased one song at a time and played on shuffle; and we’re all channel-surfing from YouTube video to YouTube video. …
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  The Greatest: Cat Power Sings Stoic 'Cherokee' on 'Conan'

  November 8, 2012 – A word Cat Power's Chan Marshall added and repeated in her late-night TV performance last night of "Cherokee," from her Essential-branded album, Sun, was "love." She toyed with it, probed it, held onto it with all of her might — which is considerable, but which her concerned fans have certainly had reason to worry about over the years. …
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  Actually, Cat Power Did Cancel Her Tour

  November 6, 2012 – The tour was on. The tour was off. The tour was on and now, sadly, it's off again. Last week, Cat Power hit Instagram to announce that she may have to cancel her European jaunt due to "bankruptcy and my health struggle with angioedema." The very next day, November 1, it seemed she'd figured out a workaround for the first problem: "EUROPEAN TOUR IS ON. WITHOUT STAGE PRESENTATION. …
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