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Song Premiere: The Secret Sisters - "The One I Love Is Gone"

By Alex Skidmore at 3:30 PM on October 11, 2011

Listen to The Secret Sisters' hauntingly beautiful rendition of Bill Monroe's "The One I Love Is Gone" from the album below. It's just one of the fantastic tracks that also includes songs by Elvis Costello, Neko Case, Elton John, Yim Yames, Jeff Bridges, and Karen Elson. read more

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Still Your Man: Leonard Cohen Takes Back Manhattan

By Henry Freedland at 2:15 PM on February 20, 2009

Click here for more photos from Leonard Cohen's performance.--On his first U.S. stage in 15 years, Leonard Cohen smiled in a gangster suit. He removed his fedora and bowed deeply—to the 2,800 fans who paid premium to pack into Manhattan's gilded Beacon Theatre, then to the admiring musicians around him who answered by launching into "Dance Me to the End of Love." Cohen fell to a crouch. At 74, was he finally too feeble to perform standing? Or was his body channeling the song's supplication—"lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove"? ... read more