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  Local Natives' Taylor Rice Rides for Sufjan, Attempts to End the NYC vs. LA Debate

  January 24, 2013 – Full of lush vocal harmonies and ringing guitars, Local Natives' 2010 debut album, Gorilla Manor, had an unmistakably Californian aura. For the follow-up, though, the Los Angeles foursome decamped to Brooklyn to work with the National's Aaron Dessner who co-produced the intricate follow-up, Hummingbird (Frenchkiss), at his home studio. …
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  Leonard Cohen's 'Book of Longing' Prompts Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

  July 23, 2012 – Leonard Cohen is a songwriting great. A true living legend. He also, like some of the Important Male Writers of his generation — Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, John Updike — writes about sexuality with a male-oriented frankness that must've felt radical and bohemian in a more puritanical era, but in hindsight doesn't necessarily look so different from the womanizing of the gray flannel suits on Mad Men. …
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  Feist, Drake, and Japandroids Make Polaris Prize Long List

  June 15, 2012 – What artist's album will join the ranks of Arcade Fire's The Suburbs and Fucked Up's The Chemistry of Common Life as a recipient of the Polaris Music Prize? …
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  Leonard Cohen's Ex-Manager Guilty of Making His Life 'Utter Living Hell'

  April 13, 2012 – Leonard Cohen's return to the U.S. stage after a 15-year absence in 2009 wasn't purely a matter of artistic necessity, but a financial one — the Canadian legend had been bled dry by his ex-manager, who he said mismanaged millions of dollars while he was living in a Buddhist monastery. …
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  Leonard Cohen Testifies to Awfulness of Ex-Manager

  April 10, 2012 – Longstanding legal woes between Leonard Cohen and his former business manager, Kelley Lynch, continued last Friday when the soulful baritone testified against Lynch in an L.A. court, alleging that she sent a barrage of menacing e-mails and voice messages that made him fear for his safety. "Every time I see a car slow down, I get worried," the 77-year-old Canadian music icon told L.A. …
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  See Cults and Cold War Kids Cover Leonard Cohen

  February 2, 2012 – A few days after Leonard Cohen talked shop with Jarvis Cocker on the BBC, a couple of young guns are paying tribute to the deep-voiced crooner: Videos of Cults and Cold War Kids covering Cohen songs hit the web yesterday. The covers were performed for Old Ideas with New Friends, a project orchestrated by Columbia Records (Cohen's label) to "celebrate Leonard Cohen's legendary 40 years in music" — as well as build all that newfang …
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  Leonard Cohen, 'Old Ideas' (Columbia)

  January 31, 2012 – My grandma's friend Willy told me the funniest and most honest thing I've ever heard an old person say. This was maybe two years ago, when I was visiting the retirement home where they both live. I asked Willy how he was doing. …
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  Leonard Cohen Chats With Jarvis Cocker, Says 'Buffet Table' Amazingly

  January 20, 2012 – In advance of his new Old Ideas, out January 31, Leonard Cohen sat down with Jarvis Cocker to chat about the album for a BBC radio interview. The erstwhile Pulp frontman talked about the conversation in a five-minute promo snatch online now. …
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  Hear Leonard Cohen's Lovely New Single 'Show Me the Place'

  November 22, 2011 – Forget turkey and a short workweek, here's something to be thankful for: a new Leonard Cohen song! …
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  Leonard Cohen's New Album 'Old Ideas' Due in 2012

  October 21, 2011 – On October 15, Leonard Cohen released a sprawling 18-disc box set compiling all of the legendary songwriter's 17 studio and live albums, up through 2009's tour document Songs From the Road. By the time newcomers are through listening to all of that, there could be a brand-new Cohen studio album. The singer and songwriter behind "Hallelujah," "Suzanne," "Chelsea Hotel No. …
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