Ladies & Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen
the woodshed (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Leonard Cohen
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Beck's Record Club
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
I was flicking through the Indie last night in the pub and noticed a snippet about Beck's revamped website - http://www.beck.com/ . It's worth a visit to check out his Record Club. The Record Club is project where he gathers together various musicians in a studio with the objective of covering a classic album a day. He then releases a track a week from that featured album. The latest record to have...
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Big Chill: It's not the end of summer
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Is the independent festival on its way out? Seeing the Big Chill fall into the hands of a corporate giant feels like a symbolic moment, but it doesn't reflect the health of the UK festival scene. The Big Chill failed not because independent festivals can't survive, but because Chillfest moved its festival away from the event's original ethos – an event for people who used to go clubbing –...
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Depression in Prospect
Prodicus (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I read Prospect magazine so as to understand and keep an eye on the Gramscians. I deserve a fucking medal. I don’t know how much longer I can keep it up. It is an infinitely depressing task. I consider it a sort of duty, to be undertaken only with a glass of Caledonian medication in hand to stiffen the resolve. The stiffener is a sine qua non lest after an hour in the company of bitter and self-pitying...
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This Year's Winner of the X-Factor will sing...........
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Last year the winner of the noxious X-Factor Alexandra Burke released a version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallellujah”. This release for me was a bit of a double-edged sword. On one side it was great to see a great song reach a larger audience, making the writer a few bob in the bargain. However the other selfish part of me feels like “we” lost the song to the general music...
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Thunderheist and Winter Gloves at Chop Suey Tonight
Sound On The Sound (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Everyone on the West Coast is all “New York this and the Big Apple that…” Everyone on the Internet is all “Brooklyn this and pop music that…” Who gives a fuck about New York. I’ll take Montreal over The City That Never Sleeps just about any day of the week. I’m not just saying that because my [...]
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Recession Confession: If Only I Stopped Buying Poetry Books I Could Still Afford...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Jeff Gordinier The Poetry Foundation In Port Angeles, Washington, it was Tess Gallagher . I had stopped for a lunch of yogurt and fresh figs on the way to the coast, and, as so often happens, I wound up wandering into a local bookstore. This one was Port Book & News on First Street, and by the time I'd left, about five minutes later, the frayed strap of my shoulder bag was straining with the weight...
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the rest are fakes
Return To The Center (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Newshour Interview with Leonard Cohen
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DWTS Results Final 3 Donny, Mya, and Kelly 11.17.2009
C H E S S N O I D (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
As expected a bogus surprise ending for the final three. I know this is all just for entertainment and the results probably fixed by the producers, but the math part always bothers me. The scoring last week had Joanna and Derek as couple number 2. So even if they DID come in last with the [...]
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Readers rave about Leonard Cohen's magical concert and rant about Andrew Schlafly's re-edit of the Bible
Riverfront Times | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A to Z, NOVEMBER 8, 2009 COHEN MAGIC Some enchanted evening: Yes, it was a pilgrimage and a long-awaited one ["Show Review + Setlist: Leonard Cohen at the Fabulous Fox, November 7," Aimee Levitt]. It was simply the best concert I have seen for many years. In fact, it may...
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neil mcsweeney: shoreline
cowsarejustfood (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
neil mcsweeney plies his trade in territory that’s been radio blighted by every guitar wielding blubbering hormonal sac with a plastic soul to bare, with blanditudes proffered to soft-faced men in shiny cars and bleary-eyed women drinking wine alone in over-decorated apartments. territory that once encompassed a buncha folks from sam cooke to hank williams [...]
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Why Celebrate Today? November 17, 2009
Liquor Barn's Party Line Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Btms^ for Tuesday, November 17. Drink 4cast 4 2day: Great Lakes’ Edmund Fitzgerald Beer, 2 toast 2 Canadian singer & songwriter Gordon Lightfoot born 2day in 1938. On this date in… 1800 – The U.S. Congress held its first sessions in Washington, D.C. 1869 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas was inaugurated. 1894 – The ”Daily Racing Form”...
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TML Monthly Review - Episode #36
The Music Lovers Monthly Review (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The Flaming Lips - Convinced of the Hex from Embryonic Dark Meat - When the Shelter Came from When the Shelter Came Califone - Alice Marble Gray from All My Friends Are Funeral Singers Built to Spill - Life's A Dream from There Is No Enemy Fruit Bats - Teguicigalpa from The Ruminant Band Ah Holly Fam'ly - All Unfolding from Reservoir Neon Indian - Terminally Chill from Psychic Chasms The Clientele...
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Video: Beck, Wilco & Feist - Little Hands
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
As we previously reported, during their swing through California earlier this summer Wilco stopped by Beck’s recording studio to lend a hand to his Record Club project - which has already featured albums by The Velvet Underground and Leonard Cohen. For the third installment, the combo took on Skip Spence’s cult masterpiece Oar. Here’s Beck, Wilco and the lovely Leslie Feist with...
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Every week the Village Voice posts a...
Outside Counsel (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Every week the Village Voice posts a list of the top selling records at a Village music shop. Greenwich Village is one of the few places left that even has record stores, and the feature is as much about the stores and what they feature as anything else, so it is something that I always turn to with some interest. Last week's store was Rebel Rebel Records. Its Top 10: 1. Various Artists:The Village:...