“When Dylan emerged, he blew everyone’s mind,” said Allen Ginsberg. “Everybody except Leonard Cohen, that is.” Ginsberg was right, of course. Even before Bob Dylan transformed modern songwriting with ...

The late Leonard Cohen could certainly be a formidable performer, but he endures primarily because of his songs - richly poetic, nuanced and evocative pieces of aural literature composed with enough ...

On first listen, Leonard Cohen's album You Want it Darker is a great album. On second listen, it could rank among his best and on third listen, it is obvious that it is the best contender for a Nobel ...

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 ...

There could be no sweeter-sounding bird on the wire that leads back to Cohen’s 50-year legacy in music than Batalla, who along with Julie Christensen formed the duo that accompanied Cohen during his ...

On December 8, Chrome Dreams will release “Hallelujah,” a new biography of Canadian songwriting legend Leonard Cohen, the first to be published since 1988. The book delves into Cohen’s storied career, ...

In terms of tribute albums, there are a lot dedicated to Leonard Cohen. There’s 2005’s Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man, which went along with Lian Lunson’s film of the same name. There’s also 1995’s Tower ...

In November, Colombia Records and Legacy Recordings released Thanks For The Dance, a posthumous release of Leonard Cohen’s produced largely by his son, Adam Cohen (with assitance from Beck, Feist and ...

The post Leonard Cohen Tribute Album to Feature Peter Gabriel, Iggy Pop, Mavis Staples, & More appeared first on Consequence. Blue Note Records has announced a new covers album titled Here It Is: A ...

A posthumous Leonard Cohen album is in the making, according to his son. The Canadian singer-songwriter died in his sleep in 2016, aged 82, after falling during the night at his Los Angeles home. He ...

Leonard Cohen: vocal, guitar, programming; Patrick Leonard: producer, programming; Ed Sanders: guitar (9); Sharon Robinson: vocals, synth bass (2, 9); Dana Glover ...

The work unearthed after Leonard Cohen’s death at age 82 in 2016 contemplated the soul, the Holocaust, and hip-hop. “Kanye West Is Not Picasso” went the title of one poem in Cohen’s posthumously ...