Leonard Cohen and his muse Marianne Ihlen were close in life and in death — in fact, they died just months apart from each other, and the “So Long, Marianne” singer-songwriter said goodbye through a ...

For the past 25 years I've had this notion that on every successive Leonard Cohen record his voice would get deeper and deeper until one day he'd put out an album so subsonic that you'd just feel it, ...

This story originally appeared in SPIN’s March 2002 issue. In honor of Cohen’s posthumous album Thanks for the Dance, we’ve republished it below. Then he simply walked away. He left behind his ...

Leonard Cohen was deep in his career when he finally finished “Hallelujah.” Well, the first version of “Hallelujah” — there would be many, many versions when all was said and done. He’d toiled on the ...

Jan Christian Mollestad read Leonard Cohen’s farewell letter to Marianne Ihlen before she died. “Well, Marianne, it’s come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart, and ...

The 82-year-old songwriter mixes serious contemplation with mordant humor on his new album. Critic Ken Tucker says You Want It Darker features some of Cohen's simplest, most effective lyrics. This is ...

The late Leonard Cohen could certainly be a formidable performer, but he endures primarily because of his songs - richly poetic, nuanced and evocative pieces of aural literature composed with enough ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - A jury convicted Leonard Cohen's former business manager Thursday of harassing the singer-songwriter and repeatedly violating a court order to stop contacting him. The panel ...

Leonard Cohen has rarely been seen in public since he wrapped up his “Grand Tour” at the Vector Arena in Auckland, New Zealand, on December 21st, 2013, with a joyous encore of the Drifters’ “Save the ...

Poet, novelist and musical cult figure Leonard Cohen passed away on Thursday at age 82. Not a great singer, Cohen was a reluctant performer and an unlikely musical star. But the eloquence and ...

Blue Note Records will release Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen, featuring 12 covers of Leonard Cohen’s songs, on Oct. 14. The collection was produced by Larry Klein and features contributions ...