Articles by Del F. Cowie

Bishop Nehru

Adelaide Hall, Toronto ON, June 17

PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2015

After his DJ spun a few hip-hop classics, 18-year-old Bishop Nehru took the Adelaide Hall stage rocking a Tommy Hilfiger windbreaker. These...

Kate Tempest

Adelaide Hall, Toronto ON, June 17

PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2015

Performance poet, playwright and MC Kate Tempest's Mercury Prize-nominated full-length Everybody Down is an album that analyzes youth and c...

Allie

Adelaide Hall, Toronto ON, June 17

PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2015

At NXNE last year, Toronto singer Allie turned heads with her performance at Massey Hall. Despite the decidedly more intimate environs of t...

Skyzoo

Music For My Friends

PUBLISHED Jun 17, 2015

At this point, Brooklyn MC Skyzoo is considered a veteran who is now associated with delivering a dependable, assured and almost predictabl...

Little Dragon

Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, May 31

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2015

Four albums deep into their career, Swedish band Little Dragon have shown the power of sticking doggedly to their ideals as their audience...

Little Simz

Age 101 Drop 4 EP

PUBLISHED May 28, 2015

From the outside looking in, things seem to be going exceedingly well for Little Simz, aka Simbi Ajikawo. The 21 year-old North London-base...

Oddisee

The Good Fight

PUBLISHED May 8, 2015

Having been on the grind churning out a variety of projects over the past several years in various creative guises, Maryland-reared, Brookl...

Oddisee Talks Crowdsourcing Inspiration and Baltimore Politics

PUBLISHED May 7, 2015

Oddisee has been steadily putting out a variety of different projects for several years, displaying an admirable level of versatility on in...