'What do you have in the works for 2009? More solo material? A new Broken Social Scene record?
"I have a record-or a bunch of songs-I'm now finishing where I split the vox with a girl named Jeen O'Brien and am producing alongside longtime collaborator and friend, Bernard Maiezza. We used to call it CookieDuster and might still. Otherwise, there will be much more recording this year because that's what we do. Probably some solo, and probably some BSS."'
Exclaim interviews Neko Case...
'Speaking of books, just before this interview I was reading Friend Of The Devil, a crime thriller from a Canadian author, Peter Robinson, and you appear in the book. [I show her the book and line that reads "Neil Young follows Neko Case with a blistering version of "Like A Hurricane"].
"I saw this book advertised in the subway while I was making this record. That is weird! I didn't know I was in a book! And that's so funny, that I saw that ad in the subway all the time."'
New York Times talks to Leonard Cohen
'Mr. Cohen is an observant Jew who keeps the Sabbath even while on tour and performed for Israeli troops during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. So how does he square that faith with his continued practice of Zen?
'Allen Ginsberg asked me the same question many years ago,” he said. “Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I’ve practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity. So theologically there is no challenge to any Jewish belief.”'
Uncut Magazine is providing uh uncut, interviews with a whole bunch of cats from Neil Young's early years.
from Allan Bates, founding member of the Squires...
"The Shadows were a huge influence on The Squires. I mean, Neil absolutely adored Hank Marvin. All the instrumentation they had was exactly the same as ours. If we had had some decent equipment, who knows? We were a damn good band for kids in Grade 10."


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