Guardian Music — Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall on bringing Cleopatra to Meltdown audiences What does Antony mean to you? How do you feel about playing Meltdown?I'd heard him on record but, live, I was blown away. It felt so familiar, so much a part of the collectiv... more info

Consequence of Sound — Leonard Cohen's son looks for space on the cluttered stage. more info

Prefix — In 2006, Leonard Cohen published Book Of Longing, a collection of poetry and drawings. Now, a California woman has accused ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/leonard-cohens-book-of-longing-implicated-in-sexua/67390/ more info

Guardian Music — From handbags and gladrags to white socks and flip flops, here are your sartorial soundsLast week's call for songs about clothes prompted some winning styles, after a lot of rummaging around for forgotten rags and prized combos.Clothes are of course ... more info

Guardian Music — Canada's equivalent of the Mercury prize also includes Feist, Cold Specks and Japandroids among othersDrake, Grimes and a Noh-theatre-inspired psych band are among the nominees for this year's Polaris prize, Canada's biggest music award. Ten albums h... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonA band of all-female punk demonstrators, Pussy Riot, are currently languishing in jail in Russia after a guerrilla gig in a church protesting against Russia's strongman president, Vladimir Putin. Their imprisonment has become... more info

Guardian Music — (Caldo Verde)Former Red House Painter Mark Kozelek has, over 20-odd years, become something of a slacker iteration of Leonard Cohen, ruminating on unrequited desire with a dolorous thrum of a voice and an increasing mastery of classical guitar. He ca... more info

Impose Magazine — J. Irvin Dally has the ability to invoke a deeper sadness in his covers, take his slowed version of the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" for example. The kid has got some pipes and he knows how to take you to that reflective place where your eyes gl... more info

ContactMusic — Leonard Cohen Feist and rapper Drake are among the 40 acts chosen as contenders for this years 12 Polaris Music Prize for the best Canadian album of 2012 The countrys music industry officials have released the long list for the seventh annual prizegi... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The long list for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize has been revealed. It includes Leonard Cohen, Cold Specks, Drake, Feist, Fucked Up, Grimes, Japandroids, The Weeknd, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, and more. Check out the full list below. Who's... more info