Leonard Cohen US Tour Date
Posted on 13. Jan, 2009 by spencer in Music
Leonard Cohen
Show Date: 2/19/09
Where: BEACON THEATRE, New York City
Tickets on Sale: 1/16/09 9 AM (Ticketmaster.com, Beacontheatre.com and charge-by-phone at (866) 858-0008)
Yes, he’s getting up there in age and he doesn’t have the wind he used to. Yes, he’s probably going to play mostly his “hits,” and less of his obscure songs. Yes, the tickets are probably going to cost too much. Yes, some of his musical arrangements may border on muzak.
Still it will all be worth it. Leonard Cohen is a national treasure whose songs will be remembered for centuries. [...]
Tindersticks Tour Dates
Posted on 17. Dec, 2008 by spencer in Music
If you’ve seen Donnie Darko more than ten times and think that, besides the latest Calexico record, new music has nothing to offer you, you may be tickled by the announcement of the upcoming Tindersticks North American tour dates.
To me, the Tindersticks have always sounded like the red wine-and-pills combination of Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen. But what do I know. Check out a fan page or two and thank me later.
TINDERSTICKS PLAY RARE LIVE PERFORMANCES IN NORTH AMERICA IN SUPPORT OF THE HUNGRY SAW
Following their reformation and the release [...]
Synthesis Song of the Day: “Suzanne” by Leonard Cohen
Posted on 01. May, 2008 by spencer in Music
When I woke up this morning, it was to the Leonard Cohen ballad “Suzanne.” No, not on my stereo, but stuck inexplicably in my head. Perhaps “inexplicably” isn’t the right word — the song is just a thing of beauty, lyrically descriptive, mood-setting and without flaw. It just gets in there sometimes, you know? Then, just now, while on a coffee run I listened to a street performer sing “Hey That’s No Way To Say Goodbye.” KISMET! That means it’s a Leonard Cohen day….and me without my black turtleneck.
Here’s [...]
Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Inductees Announced
Posted on 06. Dec, 2007 by ryan in Blog, Lifestyle, Music
I’m not big on competition in music, or enshrining artists’ feet in concrete, or bidding on eBay for locks of so and so’s hair – it just seems to defeat the purposes of free-reign creativity. And while I don’t think that rock ‘n’ roll ever needed a Hall of Fame, its nomination process and subsequent ballyhooing ceremony nevertheless persists every year with new inductees. I almost always marvel at the rad collaborations they acquire though, and almost cried when Elvis Costello was inducted a few years ago, so never mind [...]
