The Road to Surfdom (Free subscription) | yesterday
If your kids have trouble understanding what ‘ubiquitous’ means, just tell them “You know, that ‘Hallelujah’ song” and they’ll know exactly what you mean. Is the same thing going to happen with all Leonard Cohen songs? Download audio file (ravens-marianne.mp3) Share This
The Urban Woo (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Over lunch, JC told me about a feature he'd read where Leonard Cohen was explaining the reason his depression had lifted. ' There was just a certain sweetness to daily life that began asserting itself. I remember sitting in the corner of my kitchen, which has a window overlooking the street. I saw the sunlight that shines on the chrome fenders of the cars, and thought, "Gee, that's pretty." 'I said...
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Camille never ceases to amaze me. Here she is in her latest bilingual clip, “Money Note” from her album “Music Hole”: HT Filles Sourires
Solar Powered Record Players (Free subscription) | yesterday
So, my days off are getting sparse. Someone, get that tiny violin... A nice waltz by Strauss? How about the Blue Danube? Why, thank you.... I ordered a couple of CDs from an well-known online vendor. I usually use the buy-from-independant-vendors-through-the-site option, but this time, because Mum had asked me to get Field Commender Cohen for her, and it was just as cheap to order that and make
Living in Brittany (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
You know summer has arrived when Xav opens his ice cream shop insists we...
Manchester Online (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
“MANCHESTER'S got everything, except a beach”, so Ian Brown once said.
Fair Proxy Web (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Dance me to the end of the night From T in The Park, where I definitely fell into the “older fan” bracket, to the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle where I was one of the youngest. A good few decades younger than the star of the show - the one and only Leonard Cohen. Like most fans, I snapped [...]
nigel hastilow (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Anyone who has listened to the songs of Leonard Cohen will know it’s music to slash your wrists by. That may be why Chancellor Alastair Darling is so keen on the American singer. As the economy goes down the tubes, Mr Darling is being forced to abandon Gordon Brown’s “Golden Rule” which limited Government borrowing. When the going gets tough, the gold turns to base metal (though not lead because that’s...
Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
One of my favorite lines in a review of Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem is they make Leonard Cohen seem joyful, but I beg to differ as I find their music hopeful and exuberant. Rani more often takes the singing lead, but each of them sings and each of them plays. Rani is the fiddler, Scott Kessel the percussionist, Andrew Kinsey plays bass and Nayak is the guitarist. MP3 File
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
"My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly the 10,000 nights I spent alone." —Leonard Cohen It is almost universally assumed that rock musicians avail themselves of copious, practically on-demand casual sex with their fans. The...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
It would be fair to say that festivals present challenges for an artist. First, they are not playing to a fully partisan crowd, and second, they are restricted by time constraints and the logistics of equipment and entourage. Festivals, then, are a measure of a performer's ability to make the conditions work for them.
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
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Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Airborne Toxic Event: "Sometime Around Midnight" [mp3] from The Airborne Toxic Event (out August 5th) other Airborne Toxic Event posts at Largehearted Boy Dave Marsh: "Backstreets Thread" [mp3] from The True Love Rules...
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
in post Beirut :: The Black Sessions (Paris 2007) from An Aquarium Drunkard .
Topsyturvydom (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
I expect that, by now, septuagenarian poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen will have his feet up, having completed a remarkable series of gigs in Europe, largely, it seems, to supplement his pension after being ripped off by his accountant. It was quite a coup for the Manchester International Festival to book him for a series of concerts in the intimate surroundings of the City's Opera House, especially...
