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  Cat Power's Illness, Money Woes Threaten European Tour

  October 31, 2012 – A few days after Hurricane Sandy forced Cat Power to postpone a show in Philadelphia, even more powerful phenomena are putting her scheduled European tour in doubt. Chan Marshall might cancel her European tour for financial and medical reasons, she said in an an Instragram post last night (via Pitchfork). …
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  Hurricane Sandy Wreaks Havoc on NYC Live Events Schedule

  October 29, 2012 – Hurricane Sandy, the historic storm that has caused evacuations, transportation shutdowns, and powerful winds before making landfall somewhere between central New Jersey and southern Delaware Monday night (October 29), has forced the cancellation of several performances along the Eastern Seaboard. Shows by the xx, Cat Power, Ghostface Killah, Grimes, and John Legend are among hundreds of events already impacted by the storm. …
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  Watch Cat Power Survive Zombie Apocalypse in Self-Directed 'Cherokee' Video

  September 17, 2012 – "If I die before my time, bury me upside down," Chan Marshall sings on "Cherokee," from her latest album as Cat Power, the SPIN Essential-stamped Sun. Our contributor Jessica Hopper points out in her review that such inverted burial was traditionally reserved for suicides, but in the just-released "Cherokee" video, directed by Marshall herself, zombie-like day walkers loom large as another potential cause of death. …
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  Who Charted? Cat Power and Matchbox Twenty Are the Greatest

  September 12, 2012 – First! Can we redact that exclamation point? Let's break out the streamers for Matchbox Twenty who, after 17 years of delivering gruff-guy anthems for brokenhearted post-grunge adults (and, for at least one year, teens) who don't know any better, have scored their very first No. 1 album with North. …
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  Mara Hoffman Shakes It Down With Ukuleles For Spring '13

  September 12, 2012 – For a designer known for colorful swimsuits, statement-making dresses, and boldly beautiful prints, you'd never expect Mara Hoffman to send well-dressed models down the runway to anything slow and snoozy. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Gunplay Gets Kinda Existential

  September 7, 2012 – A few weeks ago, when I was talking about 2 Chainz and Kanye West's "Birthday Song," I compared Kanye's recent production style to Christopher Nolan's. These days, Kanye's pretty much making "the portentous Christopher Nolan version of trap music," I said. The prime directive seems to be to make everything grand and elaborate, often to the detriment of the song or concept. …
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  Cat Power, 'Sun' (Matador)

  September 4, 2012 – Chan Marshall insists that her ninth album isn't political, but in America in 2012, what's more politicized than the right to live as you please? …
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  10 Albums You Can Hear Now: Cat Power, Animal Collective, Crypts, More!

  August 30, 2012 – Teh Internetz are rife with previewable music this week. For your ease of unpaid listening, we've rounded up the 10 records you've gotta hear now, even though they aren't out yet. You don't want to be caught at the proverbial water cooler trying to talk about 2 Chainz or Swans, do you? Those albums are so (literally) yesterday. Have fun clicking through the 103 songs we've amassed below. 1) Cat Power, Sun, out September 4 on Matador. …
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  Cat Power: Raw Power

  August 27, 2012 – "Are you mad at me?" Chan Marshall will ask you this whether you are a bartender mixing her a tequila and soda after closing time or a bodega clerk waiting to take her order or a passerby walking a dog or, certainly, a new acquaintance grappling with how to speak to her at length about deeply personal subjects she is both loathe to dig into and unable to avoid. You will assure her, repeatedly, that of course you're not mad. …
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  Download Cat Power's Tense 'Cherokee' and Dreamy Nicolas Jaar Remix

  August 7, 2012 – Cat Power's got the beat. If there's a throughline between "Ruin" and "Cherokee," the two songs to emerge so far from Chan Marshall's upcoming Sun LP — her first original album in six years, due out September 4 on Matador — it's a confident embrace of rhythm and percussion. Sure, that's been the general trajectory of Marshall's overall career, from her halting lo-fi years to 2006's soul-swaying The Greatest. …
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