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James Taylor performed a special show at the White House on Tuesday to help celebrate the recent passage of President Joe Biden‘s Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The musician played classic “Fire & Rain” before being joined by his wife Kim Taylor for “You Can Close Your Eyes” and “America …

Norah Jones reinterprets one of Leonard Cohen’s late masterpieces with a cover of “Steer Your Way” for the upcoming all-star tribute album Here It Is, due out Oct. 14. Here It Is features covers of Cohen’s songs spanning the rock poet’s entire career, and for the tribute LP Jones picked …

PJ Harvey and composerTim Phillips have released a new cover Leonard Cohen‘s “Who by Fire.” The ornately-arranged version was created for Apple TV+ series Bad Sisters, whose executive producer and starSharon Horgansought Harvey out for the cover. “I thought of the words of‘Who by Fire’soon after the series was picked …

Nathaniel Rateliff has unveiled a new version of Leonard Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat.” The soulful, horn-tinged rendition of the 1971 song is the second single to emerge from Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen, an upcoming compilation from producer Larry Klein that features 12 covers of Leonard Cohen …

Vintage songs are regularly remade, sampled and, most recently, interpolated into new ones. But even in that context, the saga of Leonard Cohen‘s “Hallelujah” remains singular. A song that was initially rejected and ignored by the music business in the Eighties has, over the last two or three decades, become …

The new documentary Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song is arriving on July 1, and there’s a premiere party this Sunday evening at New York’s Beacon Theatre featuring performances by Judy Collins, Amanda Shires, Sharon Robinson, and Why Don’t We’s Daniel Seavey. Directed by Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller, …

New documentaries on T. Rex, Leonard Cohen, and Lil Baby are among the films set to screen at the 2022 Tribeca Festival (formerly known as the Tribeca Film Festival), taking place June 8 through 19 in New York City. Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rex, was …

Leonard Cohen is the latest artist to have their song rights scooped up, with Hipgnosis Song Management reaching a deal with the poet-rocker’s estate to acquire his legendary catalog. The deal — the terms of which were not announced — includes all 278 songs that Cohen wrote, including his oft-covered …

In the 1960s, on the Greek island of Hydra, a Norwegian ex-pat met a young Canadian poet. She was shopping in a market when this dashing, mustachioed figure appeared in the doorway. “Would you like to join us?” the handsome silhouette asked her. “We’re sitting outside.” Their eyes met, and …