Articles by Del F. Cowie

Mick Jenkins on New Sound 'Wave[s]' and How Poutine Led to Kaytranada

PUBLISHED Aug 31, 2015

With his latest EP Wave[s], 24-year-old Chicago MC Mick Jenkins is continuing to build on the success of his critically acclaimed mixtape T...

Straight Outta Compton

F. Gary Gray

PUBLISHED Aug 14, 2015

With some of hip-hop's biggest mainstream stars of the past couple of decades already having hip-hop films attached to them, F. Gary Gray's...

Dr. Dre

Compton

PUBLISHED Aug 12, 2015

Compton is the album we didn't realize we wanted from Dr. Dre.   While we all thought we were waiting for the long-gestating and interminab...

Amy

Asif Kapadia

PUBLISHED Jul 9, 2015

The 2011 death of singer Amy Winehouse at the age of 27 seemed like a depressingly inevitable outcome when it actually occurred. Despite th...

Statik Selektah

Lucky 7

PUBLISHED Jul 7, 2015

Like many of his previous efforts, Statik Selektah's seventh album Lucky 7 features the respected producer's hard-edged East Coast producti...

What Happened, Miss Simone?

Liz Garbus

PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2015

Near the beginning of What Happened, Miss Simone? (screening June 26 on Netflix), Nina Simone responds to a reporter's question of what fre...

Pete Rock

Petestrumentals 2

PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2015

It's been almost 15 years since Pete Rock released the original Petestrumentals album on BBE records back in 2001, and listening to this lo...

Tink

Adelaide Hall, Toronto ON, June 17

PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2015

By the time Tink hit the stage, her DJ — sporting a white "Think Tink" T-shirt — had already warmed up the crowd by spinning tracks from Ch...