“But wait — there’s more!” can be a good news/bad news thing when it comes to posthumous album releases. No one, or almost no one, likes the idea of scraps from a late artist’s cutting room floor ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A cult-favorite poet from Quebec who wrote the most ubiquitous song of his generation, who didn’t ...

“I was just lucky to be in the right place at the right time,” Patrick Watson said. The singer-songwriter is one of several Montrealers who contributed to Leonard Cohen’s new posthumous album Thanks ...

It wasn’t until Cohen was 78 years old that he had his first major chart hit. His 12th studio album Old Ideas blew past his previous chart high on the Billboard 200, which occurred when Songs from a ...

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 ...

Leonard Cohen's late, late career resurgence reaches new heights on "You Want It Darker," an elegant treatise with deep felt layers of wisdom and a sense of finality. Produced mostly by son Adam, ...

The story goes like this: Just a couple of years ago, Leonard Cohen was a septuagenarian retiree, more or less done with music, living in a Buddhist monastery in California. He stopped touring in 1993 ...