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He’ll Touch Your Perfect Body With His Mind | Be patient; Leonard Cohen will probably be saving “Suzanne” for the encore.

DEFINITELY NOT FROM QUEBEC
Bloc Party
Shaw Conference Centre • April 29
$36.50 | Ticketmaster
Normally whenever the early ’90s rap duo Kris Kross comes up in conversation, we turn on our heels and run. But we’ll give them this: Kris Kross’ 1992 performance on the British TV music program Top of the Pops apparently inspired Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke to learn how to play guitar. Seeing Bloc Party on TV had just the opposite effect on Hot Tix, though — the video for “Signs” from their 2008 album Intimacy had us terrified of our radio dials for months. Good work, boys. Creepy, but good.

BIRD ON A WIRE
Leonard Cohen
Rexall Place • April 25
$39.24 - $249.74 | Ticketmaster
Even though Cohen recycled stage chatter from his Live in London album during his April 19 show in Vancouver, we won’t hold it against him. If we were 74 years old with a discography like his, we’d run out of things to say too. Fortunately, his set on his current career-capper tour lasts upwards of three hours, so he’ll be saying plenty through his music. And for those aspiring musicians in the crowd, here’s some Zen wisdom to consider: do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

IN FULL BLOOM
The Killers
Rexall Place • April 27
$30.50 - $49.50 | Ticketmaster
Somebody told us we had a boyfriend who looked like a girlfriend that Brandon Flowers had last February, but then we remembered that Flowers was married in 2005 and that our boyfriend looked nothing like Tana Munblowsky. Why do people lie to us? Anyway, if you haven’t heard the news, Flowers and his Killers are slotted to play Lollapalooza this August alongside Depeche Mode and Kings of Leon. If you can’t make it to Chicago, then might we suggest Rexall on Monday? They won’t be back this way for a while.