Cat Power, the singer/songwriter/producer Chan Marshall, has shared “Pa Pa Power,” a new preview of her forthcoming album Covers (January 14, 2022/Domino). Along with the music video for “Pa Pa Power” – Marshall’s rendition of the Dead Man’s Bones song – she has announced her return to the road with a full band headlining 32-date tour that will cross the US from January to May.
Watch the Greg Hunt-directed video for “Pa Pa Power,” filmed at The Echo in Los Angeles below…
On deciding to record “Pa Pa Power,” Marshall says: “I started playing this solo in 2012 (originally more dissonant and trance-y), when the Occupy Wall street protests were going on. Occupy was bunkering down and saying, ‘This shit’s fucking fucked up.’ And helping citizens be a voice in their local government. They got a lot of good things done, but the American media killed the movement. I felt like this song was relative to that. The American media has always penalized any sort of social progressiveness and is always the first to express conservative rhetoric against something that is beneficial to the nation. I’d open with this song on the 2013 China tour. ‘Burn the streets, burn the cars.’”
The 2022 tour includes 32 shows including Brooklyn Steel, Washington DC’s 9:30 Club and The Orpheum Theatre in LA. Through the fall she crossed the country on a tour with Alanis Morissette and Garbage and performed at Pitchfork Music Festival. See the full list of upcoming tour dates below.
TOUR DATES
1-16 Albany, NY – Empire Live
1-18 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
1-19 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
1-20 Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts
1-22 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
1-24 Atlanta, GA – Eastern
1-25 Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl
1-27 Houston, TX – House of Blues
1-28 Dallas, TX – Granada Theatre
1-29 Austin, TX – Emo’s
1-31 Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom
2-02 Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
2-04 Boise, ID – Knitting Factory
2-05 Eugene, OR – McDonald Theatre
2-06 Portland, OR – Revolution Hall
2-07 Seattle, WA – The Showbox
2-09 Sacramento, CA – Ace of Spades
2-10 San Francisco, CA – Castro Theatre
2-11 Los Angeles, CA – The Orpheum Theatre
4-19 Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall
4-21 Detroit, MI -St. Andrews
4-22 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom
4-23 Minneapolis, MN – Varsity Theater
4-25 St. Louis, MO – Red Flag
4-26 Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue
4-27 Cleveland, OH – House of Blues
4-29 Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre
4-30 Jersey City, NJ – White Eagle Hall
5-1 Port Chester, NY – The Capitol Theatre
5-3 New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place
5-5 Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theater
5-6 Charlotte, NC – Neighborhood Theatre
