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The Hot List These are albums that either a mogger or myself or misc. critics are high on: Cat Power, Jukebox: Sometimes when you do something again, the magic of the first time is missing. Not so with Chan’s new album in which she sings other people’s songs. Totally different from The Covers Album, you’ll love it. Mahjongg’s Kontpab: Mogger Jenny (http://mog.com/jenny/blog_post/138759) is our resident expert of great new and often obscure artists and albums. In a re... MORE
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MOGstars 7/10 Cover albums are a delicate thing. They can be like Bowie's Pin-Ups and provide stimulating reworkings of well-loved tracks, or they can plumb the depths of Duran Duran's Thank You and border on Shatner-esque hilarity, or they can just sink into oblivion. Luckily, Chan Marshall has already navigated this minefield once. 2000’s imaginatively titled The Covers Album saw her knock down and rebuild everything from the Stones to Dylan in her own delicately haunt... MORE
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For many who’ve seen Cat Power gigs over the years, calmness is not a word that immediately springs to mind when trying to describe Chan Marshall. Neither has she been, for large tracts of her confounding and exceptional career, much of a populist, exactly. Her distrait otherness might have been part of the appeal to some of us, but it would hardly work as a mainstream draw. Since last year’s “The Greatest”, however, Marshall seems to have become more than a hip name to ... MORE
