Del Cowie

Best Canadian Music Writing 2025 Compiled by Del Cowie, our Bibliophonic series editor.

Our favourite annual recap list, @invisibooks.bsky.social / @delcowie.bsky.social's Best Canadian Music Writing Of 2025 is out. So much good, so much smart. Check it.
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Remembering Roberta Flack: The Virtuoso Roberta Flack is only solo artist to win two consecutive Record of the Year Grammys and she helped usher in an enduring style of R&B. Could she be pop music's most under-appreciated influence?

Roberta Flack was one of the 20th century's greatest artists. So much more than the songs that crossed over and became universal, though those songs alone earned her immortality. RIP to a woman who changed the sonic landscape. Here is my long essay on her genius www.npr.org/2020/02/10/8...

Barry Michael Cooper, ‘New Jack City’ Writer, Dies at 66 Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer known for his work on 'New Jack City' and 'Sugar Hill,' has died. He was 66.

"While at The Village Voice, he wrote a piece titled “Teddy Riley’s New Jack Swing: Harlem Gangsters Raise a Genius” in 1987 that coined the name of a new hybrid of R&B and rap."
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Crack, a Tiffany Drug at Woolworth Prices: Spin's 1986 Feature In the late fall of 1985, one of my editors, Rudy Langlais, came to me and said he had a remarkable young writer, Barry Michael Cooper, who was black and

on hearing about the passing of Barry Michael Cooper, this groundbreaking SPIN piece he wrote immediately came to mind. RIP www.spin.com/2015/08/crac....

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One of our favourite traditions, here’s Invisible Publishing’s annual Best Canadian Music Writing compiled by Juror Cowie.

Best Canadian Music Writing 2024 · Invisible Publishing The 40 best pieces of music writing to come out of Canada this year, according to Del Cowie, Invisible Publishing's Bibliophonic editor.

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forward into 2025, for those that may have missed it, here’s my annual @invisibooks.bsky.social look back at the best canadian music writing invisiblepublishing.com/2024/12/31/b...

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Another year is coming to an end, which can only mean one thing: A new iteration of Bibliophonic editor Del Cowie’s annual Best Canadian Music Writing list. Chime in with your favourites in the comments! (@delcowie.bsky.social‬)

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