I've been a Cohen fan for many years. Unlike Johnny, I rather enjoyed the film despite my initial unfamiliarity with a number of the artists performing Leonard's work. In fact, I was impressed enough with several of the renditions to run out and buy the movie soundtrack (a move that's out of character for me).

Johnny, you're entitled to like or dislike the performers' work in the film as you see fit. But you might be surprised if you did a little research into the backgrounds of the people involved. If you did, you would find two ladies who sang backup for Leonard when he was touring.

In terms of "punksters", have a look at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Cave. I thnk you will find that Cave has bona fide credentials in this genre.

From my own standpoint, there was one performer I would have really like to have seen in the film, Anjani Thomas. For those of you Cohen fans who would like to hear something more current from the maestro himself, you might want to dig up a copy of Anjani's "Blue Alert" CD.