Consequence of Sound — U2 guitarist performed original songs and a Leonard Cohen cover inside the 15th-century chapel. more info

Stereogum — The Edge made history yesterday as the first rock musician to perform in the Sistine Chapel, Reuters reports. The U2 guitarist, whose father died of cancer last month and whose daughter overcame leukemia, played a short acoustic set for a crowd of ab... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — One part of Asaf Avidan, the Israeli songwriter who gave a solo concert on Friday night at Irving Plaza, is a lot like Leonard Cohen: the Leonard Cohen who sings delicately fingerpicked songs full of finely calibrated metaphors, aphoristic phrases,..... more info

The Telegraph — From his famous parents and child with Leonard Cohen's daughter, to a songbook that includes Gershwin, Garland and opera - Rufus Wainwright wants it all more info

Stereogum — True Detective was a regular featured player back when we ranked the best soundtrack moments of each month, and the show returned to HBO for its second season last night with an updated opening credits sequence to match the mood of the new locale and... more info

Reuters — LONDON (Reuters) - Global fans of Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen are having fun on Facebook - trying to come up with a collective name for themselves. more info

Stereogum — Even after releasing two studio albums and one live one over the past few years, Leonard Cohen still has some unreleased tunes rattling around. On his latest live album, Can’t Forget: A Souvenir Of The Grand Tour, he shines the spotlight on some of... more info

Stereogum — Marissa Nadler released Sacred Bones debut, July, back in 2014, but she’s kept busy since then by contributing to compilation records and covering well-known classics by likeminded artists. Last July it was Leonard Cohen’s “Seems So Long Ago, N... more info

Stereogum — When Norwegian singer-songwriter Susanna Wallumrød covers a song, she melts it down to almost nothing, then casts her haunting voice like a fishing line, hooking onto emotions that are often deeper and darker than in the original. On her cover of Le... more info

Stereogum — Leonard Cohen is releasing a live album called Can’t Forget: A Souvenir Of The Grand Tour, and it’s full of new takes on some of his old, rare classics. “I Can’t Forget” comes from his 1988 album I’m Your Man, but today he’s released a ... more info