Wax Poetics
First published in 2001, Wax Poetics is a quarterly American music magazine published in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to vintage and contemporary jazz, funk, soul, Latin, hip-hop, reggae, blues, and R&B.
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Italian DJ Daniele Baldelli created the Afro Cosmic disco scene
Interview by Bill Brewster, Wax Poetics, Spring 2005
IMAGINE CIRCLING the planet in a spaceship — weightless, far from home, listening to music on your gravity-modified iPod. Or imagine trying to sprint through ...
Aaliyah, R. Kelly: Aaliyah: Eternal Soul
Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, Wax Poetics, August 2014
On the heels of her best-selling debut, Age Ain't Nothing But a Number, fifteen-year-old Aaliyah was rocked by a sex scandal that would have crushed ...
Interview by Larry Jaffee, Wax Poetics, November 2014
While he's known as a '60s counterculture icon for his raunchy yet brilliant comics, illustrator Robert Crumb's heart lies in the '20s and '30s. His ...
Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, Wax Poetics, September 2011
"White people had Judy Garland. We had Nina." — Richard Pryor ...
Retrospective and Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Wax Poetics, July 2010
D'Angelo's organic sweet soul shook up modern R&B ...
Retrospective and Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Wax Poetics, July 2010
Barry White's unlimited passion took him to the heights of music ...
Curtis Mayfield: Gangster Boogie
Retrospective and Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Wax Poetics, December 2009
Curtis Mayfield injected his own cultural commentary into the Super Fly legacy ...
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