This June, Christie’s New York will bring to auction a superb and largely unknown archive of over 50 letters from the acclaimed Canadian poet, singer-songwriter, and novelist Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) to his most famous muse, the inspiration for the song „So Long, Marianne,“ Marianne Ihlen. Postmarked from Hydra, Montreal, New York, Tel Aviv, and Havana, and written during pivotal years in Cohen’s career, these poetic letters brim with both biographical detail and raw emotion, documenting one of the most captivating love affairs of its time as well as the transformation of a young man into a great artist.
Viewing
New York, Rockefeller Center
7-11 June, 2019
7 June, 10am – 5pm
8 June, 10am – 5pm
9 June, 1pm – 5pm
10 June, 10am – 5pm
11 June, 10am – 5pm
Check out the full schedule for the 188 music acts! 10 new acts have also been added, including Empire of the Sun, Death Grips, Shame, Aurora and Spleen United.
A total of 188 acts from more than 40 countries will play the festival’s 8 stages. So who are the new additions?
Australian pop favourites Empire of the Sun are set to release a new album, and their exclusive summer tour will take them to Roskilde Festival for their only Scandinavian show.
They will play the iconic Orange Stage on the same day as Travis Scott, MØ and Brazilian samba legend Jorge Ben Jor.
Following last year’s Year of the Snitch, Death Grips are ready to conquer new ground with their Roskilde debut. The energetic industrial-noise-punk-rap trio will play the Arena stage – one of the largest tent stages in Europe – on the same day as Underworld, Johnny Marr and Jungle.
The punk attitude is very much alive among other new additions to the programme. Dublin’s very own Fontaines D.C. have just released their debut album Dogrel to great acclaim. They will play the classic Pavilion stage on the same day as acts such as Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Ulver and Carpenter Brut.
Melbourne quartet Amyl & the Sniffers will make a racket on the festival’s smallest stage, Gloria, on the same day as Stella Donnelly, Tirzah and Crack Cloud, among others.
Shame are back at Roskilde, this time at the theatrical Avalon stage, following a diverse list of acts that day including Sharon Van Etten, Neneh Cherry, Fatoumata Diawara and Jon Hopkins.
Also announced today are Norwegian popstar Aurora, reunited Danish electro-rockers Spleen United, American singer-songwriter Sidney Gish, X-rated rapper cupcakKe and North Macedonia’s Džambo Aguševi Orchestra.
Ticket update:
Der New Yorker Schriftsteller, Rolling Stone-Journalist und Schauspieler Larry ‚Ratso‘ Sloman arbeitete in seiner langjährigen Karriere mit namhaften Künstlern wie Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, John Cale und Leonard Cohen zusammen und verfasste die Biografien von Howard Stern, Anthony Kiedis und Mike Tyson. Jetzt, im Alter von 70 Jahren, veröffentlicht er sein Debütalbum, für das er Künstlerkollegen wie Yasmine Hamdan, Warren Ellis, Sharon Robinson (Leonard Cohens CoAutor & Produzent) oder Imani Coppolla gewinnen konnte. Die erste Single „Our Lady Of Night“ ist ein Duett mit Nick Cave(!), die Produktion übernahm Vin Cacchione (Soft Black, Caged Animals). Musikalisch bietet Ratso, der diesen Spitznamen von Joan Baez aufgrund seiner zerzausten Erscheinung verliehen bekam, klassisches Songwriting mit moderner Raffinesse. Das Album besteht aus acht Originalsongs (teils von John Cale mitgeschrieben) und einem Bob DylanCover, die teilweise seit 1984 darauf warten, das Licht der Welt zu erblicken. „Stubborn Heart“ behandelt autobiografisch verschiedene Stadien eines Typs, der hautnah die New Yorker Gegenkultur der 1970er erlebte, um sich 40 Jahre später innerhalb der DIY-Begrenzungen Brooklyns neu zu erfinden
Adam Cohen, der Sohn und Produzent der 2016 verstorbenen Sängerin, hat die neuesten unveröffentlichten Kompositionen seines Vaters zu einem ultimativen finalen 15. Album zusammengestellt. Es wird Ende November erscheinen.