Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | yesterday
The son of 70s folk-rock stars Richard and Linda Thompson, he and his singer sister Kamila were brought up by their mother. Teddy Thompson? This kid's amazing; his cover of Leonard Cohen's "Tonight Will Be Fine" on the DVD, I'm Your Man , makes a rather disappointing portrait of the world's greatest singer-songwriter worth the price of admission. He's channelling Hank Williams; I swear, when I witnessed...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Hush Arbors: "Follow Closely" [mp3] from Hush Arbors (out October 21st) other Hush Arbors posts at Largehearted Boy Marcio Local: "Samba Sem Nenhum Problema" [mp3] from Luaka Bop's 3 Inches of Music Series (LBOP-3003)...
Last Blog On Earth (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
The first time I saw The Plot to Blow Up The Eiffel Tower was at a hot, crowded and overall unruly show at The Che Cafe in 2005. I had heard that the band hated playing to the arm-crossing throngs at The Casbah and that if you were to see them live, this was the [...]
Notes From A Room (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
A deep happiness has seized me My Christian friends say that I have received the Holy Spirit It is only the truth of solitude It is only the torn anemone fastened to the rock its root exposed to the off-shore wind O friend of my scribbled life your heart is like mine – your loneliness will bring you home – Leonard Cohen [...]
McConfuse (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Music video by 16 Horsepower performing Black Soul Choir with 16 Horsepower [Producer], Warren A. Bruleigh [Producer] (C) 1996 A&M Records Courtesy uniiversal music group; 16 horsepower Author: BarackforPresident Keywords: 16 Horsepower Leonard Cohen partisan black soul choir Palin Alaska christian music americana Added: October 4, 2008
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Pumajaw are determined to mix it up – so careful with the F-word, says DAVID POLLOCK
i guess i'm floating (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
In 1984 Leonard Cohen was sitting in a hotel room in New York, banging his head on the floor in desperate frustration, struggling through verse after verse (a rumored 80 or so) for his now-infamous song "Hallelujah." Those verses were filled with numerous Biblical references, including one of a "secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord." This, as it turned out, alluded to 1 Samuel 16:23,...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Bruce Cockburn, Ian Tamblyn, and other Canadian folk and blues legends have just released a new album that pays tribute to Ottawa taxi driver, poet and songwriter Bill Hawkins.
Evening Standard (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Despite a preponderance of pony-tailed men, the crowd were as giving as Teddy Thompson at the Scala, says John Aizlewood.
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Okay. Take yer gaze away from the snap and read. There's a new Nina Simone boxset coming out, which'll please fans no end. I realise that the further down your eyes get with the words, the more inclined you be...
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Montreal is the spiritual—and occasionally, temporal—home of Leonard Cohen, recently inducted into the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame. (He's also a man awesome enough to be entitled to say crazily pretentious things—like calling concert fans “angels born of the mud”—as he did during a foul-weathered performance in Glastonbury). Montreal landmarks, like Our Lady of the Harbour (pictured above), have crept...
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
“..Everybody knows the boat is leaking, but still everyone wants chocolates and a long-stemmed rose. So if prophet of pessimism Leonard Cohen was right, it might be too soon to say tax cuts have lost their allure to an electorate watching the international credit crunch come ashore. But suddenly, in the week they arrive after a decade [...]
English Webster (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
No better word than this, to start the year. It is also a world famous song written by Leonard Cohen (there is of course the world famous Eurovision song but we re not talking about that here). Played below in Solo Piano by my friend Yaron Herman (skip to 0.50") on the evening he won the prestigious Victoires du Jazz Award in France . Israelis (and maybe others) will recognize the intro who is taken...
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Antony and the Johnsons have just released a trailer for the title track from their forthcoming EP 'Another World' (October 7, 2008 Secretly Canadian) ...
MYBLOG by Ouriel (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
No better word than this, to start the year. It is also a world famous song written by Leonard Cohen (there is of course the world famous Eurovision song but we re not talking about that here). Played below in...
