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The Polaris Music Prize today announced their long list of nominees for the 2013 award including Tegan and Sara's Heartthrob Purity Ring's Shrines and Metric's Synthetica Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! the Besnard Lakes' Until In Excess Imperceptible UFO and New Pornographers leader AC Newman's solo album Shut Down the...
rollingstone.com (6 days ago)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Besnard Lakes, Suuns and Tegan and Sara are also nominated
nme.com (6 days ago)
Leonard Cohen has taken two Juno awards this year on the strength of his most recent album, Old Ideas, as the awards for the best in Canadian music are being given out in Regina.
cbc.ca (2 months ago)
The Juno Awards celebrated Canadian music stars old and new Saturday night as first-time winner Carly Rae Jepsen and veteran Leonard Cohen both scored major prizes while moody R&B singer the Weeknd led the field at a dinner gala where the bulk of the trophies were handed out.
cbc.ca (2 months ago)

Metric, Carly Rae Jepson and Deadmau5 also scoop prizes
nme.com (1 month and 27 days ago)
Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:28:30By John Wirt Music criticNEW ORLEANS e_SEmD Much of Leonard Cohen’s Thursday night concert at the Mahalia Jackson Theater had the reverent tone of a religious service. The reverence wasn’t directed toward a deity, however, but to music and to exquisitely shaped words expres...
theadvocate.com (2 months and 23 days ago)
Leonard Cohen fans and Beliebers come to a head on Twitter after the young star loses to the aged icon as artist of the year.
cbc.ca (1 month and 27 days ago)

"I was looking at life expectancy tables and I could probably do another seven or eight years" So Leonard Cohen claimed as he introduced "The Future" – the second song kicking off the major North American leg of his Old Ideas World Tour which commenced in December 2012 with two New...
rollingstone.com (3 months and 18 days ago)

'He's setting his own tone and his own everything with music,' Birdman says of Drake's new music. By Nadeska Alexis, with reporting by Rob Markman Drake Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage
mtv.com (3 months and 27 days ago)

Seeing Leonard Cohen at Radio City Music Hall in New York City last week was one of the greatest performance experiences of our lives. Of course, we had been hearing about his legendary concerts since 2008 when he began a series of world tours, which have continued to this day, selling out the world's greatest venues, often within hours of tickets going on sale. And of all...
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 6 days ago)
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