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Leonard Cohen’s Tribute Show In Montreal Was Heavy

Lana Del Rey and Adam Cohen. Photo by Claude Dufresne.

Lana Del Rey and Adam Cohen. Photo by Claude Dufresne.

Last Monday the Risky Fuel team made a pilgrimage to Montreal to pay our respects to the late, great musical poet, Leonard Cohen.

Titled, Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen, the Bell Centre event organized by Leonard’s son Adam Cohen featured big names like Elvis Costello, Sting, Courtney Love and Lana Del Rey to cover Lenny’s classic songs.

Those marquee names were fine, but it was the “singer songwriters” who really shone. Damien Rice and Patrick Watson were beautifully heavy and Adam, who seems to have fully embraced the family legacy, was uncanny (and unsettling) in his renditions of his father’s songs.

Sarah wrote about all this in a live review for Consequence of Sound.

To read it go here.

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Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Rush Among Topics On Polaris Podcast EP3

Albums talked about on Polaris Podcast EP3

Albums talked about on Polaris Podcast EP3

The third episode of the Polaris Podcast focused on four albums that won Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize designations in 2016.

They were:

* Neil Young’s After The Gold Rush
* Leonard Cohen’s Songs Of Leonard Cohen
* Rush’s Moving Pictures
* Kate and Anna McGarrigle’s self-titled album

For this episode we interviewed Anna McGarrigle, Young Galaxy and a number of expert jurors.

Please listen, subscribe and validate my employment.

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Ditch TV: Metallica, Black Angels, Leonard Cohen, More

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

Here are another batch of video playlists I curated while Ditch TV was still actively a thing:

#TBT Wicked Coachella Performances

13 Crushing Metallica Jams

The Black Angels: Psych’s New Kings

Brilliant Rap Songs From 2004

Lollapalooza 2004: The Tour That Wasn’t

Leonard Cohen is Still Cooler Than You

’90s British Shoegaze You Should Know

Why You Need to Know Basement Jaxx

The Streets Don’t Come For Free

Remembering Lollapalooza 2003

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Spinner’s Top 50 Albums & Songs Of 2012

Top Album And Songs Of 2012

Top Album And Songs Of 2012

The overlords at my day job Spinner.ca went into to their data mines and determined the top 50 albums and songs of 2012.

I ended up writing about a number of the artists included in these lists, like Flaming Lips, Lana Del Rey, Lee Fields, Dirty Ghosts, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Patrick Watson, A Tribe Called Red and D-Sisive.

To read the Top 50 album list go here.

To read the Top 50 song list go here.

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