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When she's not filling her MySpace blog with exhortations to buy eco-friendly cars or using it to ask "whatchall feel about Obama + Hillary??," Shortlist Prize winner and Pitchfork Music Festival alumna Chan Marshall (aka Cat Power) occasionally leaks little tidbits of info about her own new music. Or at least she did today, when she talked about Covers Record 2, the blockbuster sequel to her 2000 Covers Record. It's tentatively due in January on Matador.

Marshall writes that she is mixing the record next week in Dallas with Stuart Sikes and that she has "24 covers to choose from," adding "with so many covers, tryin' to decide if I should release COVERS RECORD 2 VOL. 2 ???"

This new covers album has been in the works at least since last fall, when it was mentioned in a New York Times story. And Cat Power certainly played a lot of covers at her Pitchfork Music Festival set.

Cat Power has a small palmful of dates scheduled for the next few months, including two in Brazil. Her next show, with the Dirty Delta Blues ensemble she assembled, is in Dallas (coincidence?) on August 17.

Dates:

08-17 Dallas, TX - Granada Theater (with Dirty Delta Blues) *
10-12 Fairburn, GA - Bouckaert Farm (The Echo Project)
10-25 São Paulo, Brazil - Auditório Ibirapuera (TIM Festival) (with Dirty Delta Blues) #
10-26 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Marina da Glória (TIM Festival) (with Dirty Delta Blues) $

* with Micah P. Hinson
# with Antony and the Johnsons, Toni Platão
$ with Feist