Cloudspeakers

Cover versions, much like the release of out-takes and other so-called "rare material" that's to be found lurking in an artist's vaults, are usually the last refuge of the creatively redundant. Got... Read more

Chan Marshall has never been shy about disclosing her influences – Cat Power’s Myspace page is more an homage to beloved artists than a promotional tool. In January, Cat Power follo... Read more

Like the jukebox on her last covers comp, Cat Power's Chan Marshall is a storehouse of great songs. This EP leads off with a trembling take on "Dark End of the Street," a classic cheating song that... Read more

B>It's been an eventful few years for Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power. Following the release of 2006's brilliant The Greatest, Marshall had what she later described as a "psychotic break" and was admi... Read more

My sister just had a baby, and in preparation she loaded up on those Rockabye Baby! CDs that offer lullabye instrumental renditions of deathless rock and pop classics. They're not much more than a ... Read more

“Time takes its toll”, she purrs like Vesper Lynd draping over a baby grand. Chan Marshall certainly laps up a challenge like it’s a silky saucer of Motown-milk. The fact she can transform a ... Read more

The first time I heard Chan Marshall sing a song by someone else wasn’t on last January’s Jukebox, and it wasn’t on The Covers Record from 2000. It was her rendition of Bob ... Read more

In this karaoke culture where 10 million people tune in to X-Factor every week to see caterwauling idiots defile their favourite songs, there can surely be no hope for the cover version. Except, th... Read more

Less than a year after her second, patchier collection of covers, Jukebox, Chan Marshall offers six slow-dancing holdovers from that album's recording sessions. While her take on Creedence's politi... Read more

As Cat Power’s career progresses it is increasingly clear that she is no ordinary singer songwriter; as if her initial slew of albums weren’t enough Chan Marshall has rebuilt herself from 2006 ... Read more