Cat Power and Iggy Pop have teamed up for a new cover of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero.”
The cover arrives as a single from an upcoming compilation album titled The Faithful: A Tribute to Marianne Faithfull, organized by In The Q Records, Bandbox, and the Women of Rock Oral History Project to help raise funds for Faithfull as she “recovers from Long Covid.” Thus, the version of the song that Cat Power’s Chan Marshall and Pop have delivered pays homage to Faithfull’s 1979 version of the song, with a driving beat and an ambient sense of tension.
Overtop, Marshall’s multi-tracked vocals carry Lennon’s powerful words, while Pop dips in throughout with spoken word lines, sounding almost like a late-career Leonard Cohen, proclaiming a solemn truth with a low, commanding growl. Listen to the single below.
In a statement, Marshall expressed her excitement to be part of the project.
The cover arrives as a single from an upcoming compilation album titled The Faithful: A Tribute to Marianne Faithfull, organized by In The Q Records, Bandbox, and the Women of Rock Oral History Project to help raise funds for Faithfull as she “recovers from Long Covid.” Thus, the version of the song that Cat Power’s Chan Marshall and Pop have delivered pays homage to Faithfull’s 1979 version of the song, with a driving beat and an ambient sense of tension.
Overtop, Marshall’s multi-tracked vocals carry Lennon’s powerful words, while Pop dips in throughout with spoken word lines, sounding almost like a late-career Leonard Cohen, proclaiming a solemn truth with a low, commanding growl. Listen to the single below.
In a statement, Marshall expressed her excitement to be part of the project.
- 12/5/2023
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Cat Power brought her Bob Dylan appreciation to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday night (November 13th), covering the folk icon’s “Like a Rolling Stone.”
Cat Power’s Chan Marshall has been on a whole Dylan kick lately, fresh off the release of her new live album Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert. That album documented a November 2022 concert during which Power recreated Dylan’s unforgettable 1966 show at London’s Royal Albert Hall, with a tracklist chock full of the latter’s biggest hits.
The Tonight Show set might not have the exact same grandeur of Royal Albert Hall, but Marshall made a statement regardless, her robust vocals and a dynamic backing band filling up the entire studio. It’s just further proof of “Like a Rolling Stone”‘s timelessness, as if anyone needed the reminder. Watch Power perform the song on Fallon below.
Cat Power’s Chan Marshall has been on a whole Dylan kick lately, fresh off the release of her new live album Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert. That album documented a November 2022 concert during which Power recreated Dylan’s unforgettable 1966 show at London’s Royal Albert Hall, with a tracklist chock full of the latter’s biggest hits.
The Tonight Show set might not have the exact same grandeur of Royal Albert Hall, but Marshall made a statement regardless, her robust vocals and a dynamic backing band filling up the entire studio. It’s just further proof of “Like a Rolling Stone”‘s timelessness, as if anyone needed the reminder. Watch Power perform the song on Fallon below.
- 11/14/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Singer-songwriter Cat Power, a.k.a Chan Marshall, took the stage Monday night as The Tonight Show’s musical guest. Dressed in a black suit and a loose necktie, Marshall and the band performed Bob Dylan’s iconic “Like a Rolling Stone,” from her new album Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert.
The record itself is a recreation of Dylan’s fabled 1966 concert, which – unlike Marshall’s – didn’t actually take place at London’s Royal Albert Hall at all. One of the more famous moments on...
The record itself is a recreation of Dylan’s fabled 1966 concert, which – unlike Marshall’s – didn’t actually take place at London’s Royal Albert Hall at all. One of the more famous moments on...
- 11/14/2023
- by Carita Rizzo
- Rollingstone.com
Last November, Cat Power took over London’s Royal Albert Hall to recreate Bob Dylan’s iconic 1966 “Royal Albert Hall” concert. That show, during which Power closely followed the setlist of Dylan’s infamous tour, is being memorialized with the new live album Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert, out now via Domino, but you can hear her renditions of now.
Power, aka the musical alias of Chan Marshall, says Dylan’s music has been an inspiration to her since she was five years old. His 1966 tour was a bit contentious to folk purists, as it saw the singer-songwriter switch from acoustic to electric guitar midway through the set. Power, however, is part of the camp who believes the tour was a major turning point in rock ‘n’ roll.
“In a way, Dylan is a deity to all of us who write songs,” she explains in a press release.
Power, aka the musical alias of Chan Marshall, says Dylan’s music has been an inspiration to her since she was five years old. His 1966 tour was a bit contentious to folk purists, as it saw the singer-songwriter switch from acoustic to electric guitar midway through the set. Power, however, is part of the camp who believes the tour was a major turning point in rock ‘n’ roll.
“In a way, Dylan is a deity to all of us who write songs,” she explains in a press release.
- 11/10/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Cat Power’s 1998 album Moon Pix often feels like it exists in a world entirely separate to our own, though the emotions it evokes are unmistakably human. Largely written in a single sitting after a terrifying hallucinatory episode, the album moves at an almost glacial pace, grounded by little more than reverb-heavy guitar licks, slowcore-style drum brushes, repeating piano lines, and Chan Marshall’s hazy, whispered croon.
Across 11 tracks, Marshall sings of being haunted by spirits, hell, and other people, but mostly by her past and the uncertainty of her future. It’s a disconcerting but deeply powerful album, and listening to it feels a lot like being transported to the world of Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory, where time collapses in on itself and the familiar is rendered strange and unsettling.
“He Turns Down” represents Moon Pix at its darkest and most unnerving. Written about Marshall’s...
Across 11 tracks, Marshall sings of being haunted by spirits, hell, and other people, but mostly by her past and the uncertainty of her future. It’s a disconcerting but deeply powerful album, and listening to it feels a lot like being transported to the world of Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory, where time collapses in on itself and the familiar is rendered strange and unsettling.
“He Turns Down” represents Moon Pix at its darkest and most unnerving. Written about Marshall’s...
- 9/22/2023
- by Tom Williams
- Slant Magazine
Cat Power has shared two new songs from her upcoming live album, which captures her effort last year to recreate Bob Dylan’s fabled 1966 “Royal Albert Hall”/“Judas” concert in full.
Unlike Dylan, Cat Power actually performed her show at London’s Royal Albert Hall, staging the special concert there last November. Dylan’s famous 1966 concert — where he went electric halfway through, and the folk purists in the crowd went apoplectic — actually took place at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, but for years, a bootleg recording mislabeled the venue...
Unlike Dylan, Cat Power actually performed her show at London’s Royal Albert Hall, staging the special concert there last November. Dylan’s famous 1966 concert — where he went electric halfway through, and the folk purists in the crowd went apoplectic — actually took place at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, but for years, a bootleg recording mislabeled the venue...
- 9/12/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The late Sinead O’Connor was a major influence on generations of performers — Garbage’s Shirley Manson among them. In her interview from the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Manson talked in depth about O’Connor. Here are her thoughts in her own words. To hear the whole podcast, go here to the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or just press play below.
I was surprised by my response to her death. It really has shaken me. I must admit I did not find it unexpected.
I was surprised by my response to her death. It really has shaken me. I must admit I did not find it unexpected.
- 7/31/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
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