Guardian Music — Sombre prophet, mordant wisecracker, repentant cad: Leonard Cohen is back with a great new album, Old Values – and more wit and wisdomOn Leonard Cohen's gruelling 1972 world tour, captured in Tony Palmer's documentary Bird on a Wire, an interviewer... more info

ContactMusic — Leonard Cohen feels like hes scraping the bottom of the barrel when writing songs The Stranger Song singer is preparing to release his 12th album Old Ideas and admitted he finds the process of writing new tracks difficult and time consuming... more info

ContactMusic — The 2012 Big Chill festival has been cancelled Organisers of the annual event have struggled to book artists to perform because of the London Olympics and despite looking into the possibility of moving the three-day show to a different time of year..... more info

Chorus.fm — *Leonard Cohen* (http://www.leonardcohen.com) hosted a playback of his new album, Old Ideas, last night in London. The night also saw Jarvis Cocker (*Pulp* (http://www.pulppeople.com/)) interview (http://www.clashmusic.com/news/leonard-cohen-chats-to... more info

Guardian Music — Songwriter on Old Ideas, his first album in eight years: 'This record invites one to be swept along, even if you have written it'His detractors may sarcastically call him Laughing Len, but Leonard Cohen kept a roomful of journalists entertained on We... more info

Guardian Music — Pizza Express Dean Street, LondonThe Pizza Express audience had been anticipating the alluring prospect of a dialogue between Norma Winstone (one of Europe's most admired vocal originals) and piano phenomenon Gwilym Simcock – a solo star who has la... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Leonard Cohen is releasing his first album since 2004's Dear Heather this month. The album, titled Old Ideas, comes out January 31 via Columbia (currently up for pre-order at Leonard Cohen's webstore). That's the cover art above. Towards the... more info

Stereogum — At a recent Philly show, New York indie-pop upstarts Cults pulled out a perfectly respectable cover of Leonard Cohen’s great 1989 synthetic-bleakness anthem “Everybody Knows,” which readers of a certain age will remember fondly as Christian Sla... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — This week's New Yorker features a new poem by Leonard Cohen. William Gibson talks to the National Post about his new book, Distrust That Particular Flavor. "I worry that this book will give somebody ideas," he says, during a lunchtime... more info

Stereogum — The almighty rumble-voiced word-wrangler Leonard Cohen will release his new album Old Ideas at the end of the month, and we’ve already posted two excellent songs from the LP, “Show Me The Place” and “Darkness.” In the new issue of The New Y... more info