On Friday, February 28, fans of the beloved musician and poetic force Leonard Cohen will have the rare opportunity to bid on a piece of the artist’s personal collection when a new auction begins at 10 ...
Discover What’s Streaming On: Leonard Cohen’s final poetry book The Flame features a poem titled “Kanye West Is Not Picasso,” and for the posthumous collection’s audiobook, actor Michael Shannon ...
Canadian born singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen inspired SO many with his incredible music, songwriting and poetry. Through his work that spanned over 50 years, he grew in popularity, writing ...
It took several tries over the course of a decade for Luciana Souza to convince Leonard Cohen to let her set several poems from his 2006 volume, “The Book of Longing” to music, but the Brazilian ...
In death, Leonard Cohen is having a rebirth. The legendary singer is being remembered by older and younger generations alike for his timeless music. Special correspondent Mike Cerre went to the annual ...
Bob Dylan said of Leonard Cohen, who passed away yesterday, November 10, 2016, at the age of 82, is "very much a descendant of Irving Berlin," in that both are "incredibly crafty. Leonard particularly ...
Leonard Cohen is our leading poet of love, wisdom, and sorrow – and according to the lyrics of Nirvana’s “Pennyroyal Tea,” the guiding spirit in Kurt Cobain’s afterworld. We sat down with the ...
But that’s getting the poem exactly wrong. It’s not an insult to Kanye West (nor to Jay-Z, who’s also mentioned). It’s a tribute. A War Photographer on the Limits of Bearing Witness The DOJ Is Making ...
Among the most-played songs in my iTunes library are four immortal (and often-covered) compositions by Leonard Cohen: “Sisters of Mercy,” “Bird on a Wire,” “Hallelujah” and, of course, “Suzanne.” ...
Cohen has never been some mere celebrity, or just another leftover of the 60s. He was and still is a true explorer in areas of poetry and music few others have ever glimpsed. I first heard Songs of ...
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Marcia Pally’s From This Broken Hill I Sing To You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen. It has been edited for length and style. “If ...
An all-star roster of singers, songwriters, rockers, pop singers and jazz greats have come together for the Blue Note Leonard Cohen covers album Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen. The 12-track ...