Leonard Cohen returned to the Montreux Jazz Festival on Tuesday for his first concert here in 23 years. Cohen, who played favorite old songs "Suzanne" and the much-covered...
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Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen unveiled plans on Tuesday for his first tour in 15 years, starting in Toronto on June 6. The announcement comes a day after the...
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Bossa nova has been in Luciana
Souza's blood since she was a child growing up in Sao Paulo,
Brazil, in the early '60s as the daughter of two of its
innovators,...
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Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, "Ballad of the Broken Seas" (V2)
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan — the former cellist/vocalist of Scottish indie pop band Belle &...
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A week after his 70th birthday,
Leonard Cohen will release a new album, "Dear Heather," on
Sept. 28, his first studio recording since 2001's acclaimed
"Ten New...
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The American Film Institute 's
upcoming TV special focuses on movie songs.
John Travolta hosts "AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Songs:
America's Greatest Music in the Movies,"...
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In celebration of the upcoming 30th
anniversary of its recording, Bob Dylan 's landmark album "Blood
on the Tracks" will be feted with a live rendering in New York
on June...
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After more than 15 years on
Warner Bros. Records, k.d. lang is switching to Nonesuch
Records.
Her first release for Nonesuch will be "Hymns of the 49th
Parallel," out July...
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Eight years after the release of
her critically acclaimed Atlantic debut, "Dreamland," jazz
singer/songwriter Madeleine Peyroux has teamed with Rounder
Records for her...
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"I signed an original," says Bruce
Lundvall, president/CEO of EMI Jazz & Classics. "It was just
that simple." He's talking about Norah Jones , whose sophomore
album, "Feels...
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Milk & Honey Films, a music video production company based in Los Angeles, has announced that the first feature project for its new longform division, Milk & Honey...
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Buzz magazine called singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen a "shaven-headed ascetic" in its latest issue, noting he's given up the trappings of stardom--including gal pal Rebecca...
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