Cat Power by Mario Sorrenti
It’s Cat Power’s take on the Dead Man’s Bones song.
Cat Power has posted a video for Pa Pa Power, taken from the Covers album which is due for release on January 14th next year.
“I started playing this solo in 2012 (originally more dissonant and trance-y), when the Occupy Wall street protests were going on,” Power recalls.
“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.’”
Also in the news today is a North American tour which will begin in Albany, NY shortly after the album’s release.
