Tag: "leonard cohen"

Adam Cohen
0 Comments. 292 Views. Posted 7 Mar 2012 @ 8:34am.
  Adam Cohen was born in Montreal in 1972, blaming his ‘cold French-Canadian soul’ on Quebec’s most prominent town. Yes, he is the son of the legendary Leonard Cohen and his then-partner, artist Suzanne Elrod, who separated in 1978. As an autodidactic learner – and fiercely independent child – Cohen had taught himself to play the guitar, drums and piano by the age of 12, something nurtured... Read More
Leonard Cohen : Old Ideas
0 Comments. 507 Views. Posted 28 Feb 2012 @ 10:28am.
If you listen to Leonard Cohen too young you can seriously fuck up your life. I spent much of my adolescence listening to his records with an intensity that bordered on reverence, scouring his lyrics for the wisdom swathed in metaphor and symbolism for clues on how to deal with my raging heart. It gave me a lifelong appreciation for wordsmiths and lyricists, and must have made me very boring at... Read More
Leonard Cohen : The Darkness
0 Comments. 326 Views. Posted 1 Feb 2012 @ 7:03am.
Old smoky throat has a new album out on February 3 called Old Ideas, his first new record in eight years. The lead single is slinky and jazzy – maybe a little too jazzy, to be honest, but let’s forgive him his geriatric foibles and bathe in the still shiver-inducing romantic decay that he weaves with his words: “I caught the darkness / It was drinking from your cup / I said is this contagious... Read More
Sons & Daughters Announce Tour
0 Comments. 820 Views. Posted 4 Nov 2011 @ 11:21am.
Formed in Glasgow over a common love of Johnny Cash and NOT over the classic Aussie soap opera from the '80s, four-piece Sons & Daughters return to Australian shores this January 2012. For the last eight years, Sons & Daughters have crafted a distinctive sound, image and story. Inspired by the storytelling of Lee Hazlewood, the lyricism of Bill Callaghan and Leonard Cohen, with a touch... Read More
Little John : Wolves
0 Comments. 744 Views. Posted 6 Oct 2011 @ 7:36am.
On Wolves, local five piece Little John blend blues and bushranger folk to create a kind of slow swaying funeral dirge, a tale of desolation and existential crisis in the barren outback that would make old Nick Cave smile. Lead vocalist John Dickson has quite a high pitched voice for this sort of thing, lacking the gravelly gravitas that is common with these ghostly folk songs. I guess that’s a... Read More
The Count With... Lucie Thorne
0 Comments. 944 Views. Posted 23 Sep 2011 @ 9:06am.
Name/Band: Lucie Thorne   Ten bands everyone should know about: Jo Jo Smith, Jimmy Dowling, Big Low, Kim Dellavedova, Pieta Brown, The Necks, Claire Jenkins Avec Band, Michael Hurley, The Millers Tale, and Sal Kimber & The Rollin Wheel.   Nine things you need to make a kickarse dinner party: Eight good friends and plenty of wine.   Eight possessions that define you: Loretta (... Read More
Simone Felice
0 Comments. 1,376 Views. Posted 16 Sep 2011 @ 10:24am.
While other kids were reading Enid Blyton and watching cartoons, Simone Felice was being mesmerized by poetry. Born in a creek-house in the woods of the Catskill Mountains, upstate New York, the young Felice soon began writing his own poetry. As a teen, this developed into songwriting. Now, Felice can add novelist to his resume. “It all comes from the same roots,” he says of his writing. “Like... Read More
Timber Timbre : Creep On Creepin’ On
0 Comments. 1,046 Views. Posted 7 Sep 2011 @ 3:46pm.
Timber Timbre are an outfit who have been hiding deep within the Canadian underground for many years now, with Creep On Creepin' On marking their fourth full-length to date. The underground seems a fitting environment for the group, who brood with a distant and dark, and at times tense, sentimentality.   Instrumentation is kept pleasantly simple, with bar-room piano and double bass forming... Read More
Seamus Anthony
0 Comments. 1,525 Views. Posted 24 Feb 2011 @ 10:59am.
Name: "Seamus Anthony."   Define your genre in five words or less:   "Thirsty zen pirate music."   How long have you been gigging and writing?   "Writing for 24 years and gigging for 19 years. Still a newbie, really. " What has been your favourite gig you've played to date?   "It's a choice between the biggest (supporting The Tea... Read More
The Priory Dolls : Get Your Dark Wizard On
0 Comments. 969 Views. Posted 15 Feb 2011 @ 1:36pm.
Melbourne's Priory Dolls - goon-drinkers, couch-crashers, garden variety hipsters - compare themselves to Leonard Cohen and Elliot Smith, in their quieter moments, and a thousand bears fighting a thousand robots, in their louder moments. Get Your Dark Wizard On is probably half way between; a twitchy, neurotic collision of guitar squall and funereal drums, with a raw, screamo climax. It's... Read More
Leonard Cohen
1 Comments. 1,323 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:17am.
From the top of the hill towards the stage stretched a crowd of some fifteen thousand people, melting under a hot afternoon sun which made its way west at an agonising speed; some families and younger folks, but mostly a forty-plus demographic in sensible hats (a lot of fedoras, in fact). Paul Kelly and his usual crew – the Bull sisters, Pete Luscombe, Ash Naylor, etc.... Read More
Concrete Blonde - The Palace
0 Comments. 1,363 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:20am.
In the 20 years since Concrete Blonde released their defining album Bloodletting, interest in all things ‘vamp’ has sky-rocketed, perhaps loosely benefiting the once close-to-forgotten group.   The title and content does reference Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, true, but the songs on Concrete Blonde’s third album were never meant to be taken as literal tales of the... Read More
Clare Bowditch
0 Comments. 1,708 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
On her fourth studio album Modern Day Addiction, Clare Bowditch delves into the core of our insecurities and societal obsessions.   At its centre is Your Own Kind Of Girl – an extremely moving song that every soul should hear and be moved by. It delves into the dilemmas that are too often hidden or ignored... eating disorders, dieting, mental illness... those that are exacerbated by... Read More
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