Fitting, then, that such a consummate craftsman as Jeffreys, who will perform at the Towne Crier Cafe in Pawling on February 3, should be among the final acts to play the venerated venue, which will close its doors at the end of the month. “Our lease...

INTERVIEW: Leonard Cohen is back with his 12th album – he talks to BRIAN BOYD about rapturous audiences, his love of Yeats and how he has temporarily given up smoking SPEND ANY TIME in the company of Leonard Cohen and you feel as though you are in the...

James Where: I’m Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1991) What: The British band covered “So Long, Marianne” for an early alternative-era Cohen tribute album. At the time primarily known only in the U.K. , it would still be two years before they...

And only the heartless would deny the Canadian artist the very late and long overdue career resurgence courtesy of the legion of admirers reinterpreting his greatest tunes, starting with the Pixies, Nick Cave, R.E.M. , John Cale, and others on I’m Your...

I haven’t listened to it for years, and didn’t remember a thing. Your writing captures the Man and his Intentions eerily well. I have often wondered to myself what Bowie’s thing about Ferry was all about, (and why he went for Lou Reed instead of John...

During the early 1960s, Cale performed with John Cage, La Monte Young, Tony Conrad, and many others, and pioneered the drone/minimalist sound that continues to inspire experimental musicians today. In 1963, Cale, Cage, and others staged the first...