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The bands that you really end up loving and having life long relationships with are often the bands who you follow through all their incarnations, from their most primitive and noisy to when they flesh out and refine their sound, removing all the extraneous layers and creating something seemingly far removed from that first chunk of raw sound, but in reality, to you, it's just another side of that amazing artist. And it's the bands who you love in all their various sonic shadings and with all the twists and turns that become the ones who are the soundtracks to our lives. Guided By Voices, Pavement, Jawbreaker, all bands who we have loved from their sloppiest and most raw incarnations to their most poppy and catchy outings. Wavves seem to be on the way to joining that elite crew. After unleashing two smoking records of way blown out garage pop burners, Nathan Williams has returned with a much more refined, up front and catchy gem of a pop record. As much as we loved the sound and aesthetic of the first two Wavves records we knew that the reason it struck such a chord with us was because we could tell this was a kid who had the gift of writing memorable and catchy pop songs, no matter how obscured those songs were by fuzz and crunch. King Of The Beach ditches most of the blown out distortion and trades it in for even more colorful hooks, addictive melodies and songs that will be stuck in our heads for the rest of the summer and beyond. It's not like it's all totally slick or overproduced, in fact there is a really cool washed out sound that glides through much of the record, but instead of it being about going all into the red, it flows more freely, creating a perfect beachside vibe of an album. Williams is still singing about boredom, girls, the betrayal of friends, being a fuck up, etc., all long standing ingredients for some of the best mischievous pop of all time. It hit us the other day why we love this record. It reminds us so much of so many of our favorite bands who injected punk spirit into such memorable pop songs. Bands like The Descendents, Screeching Weasel and Lifetime, who represented the great possibility of pop-punk. There is that same kind of impassioned, snotty, smart and spirited side to King Of The Beach that's been making us jump up and down in pure wide eyed grinning joy when we listen to it blasting as loud as it can. The record also offers up the most varied collection yet of Williams' recordings, songs that evoke '50s girl groups, hand clapping head shaking ecstasy and stoned and whirling garage pop ravers. Start to finish this is an undeniably great pop record. Total contender for record of the year!

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In the few months since we first gushed about our new found obsession, a weird little buzzy noise pop band called Wavves, it seems like a ton of other folks have been feeling the same way about the urgent, catchy, blown out and energetic sounds this young lad from San Diego has been whipping up. Already following up the great Woodsist debut is a new record on the bigger Fat Possum label, but not to worry the sound is still way blown out and in the red, and the songs still make you wanna sweat and jump and play with your friends in the burning sun. What makes Wavves so great is that they really are drawing from such classic sources yet infusing new life and energy into those sounds. Imagine the best parts of the Beach Boys, the Ramones and the Misfits, all channeled into some buzzy lo-fi shredder and you begin to understand the world Wavves calls home. Since we still have the debut on heavy rotation it caught us a bit off guard to find a brand new full length already, and another self titled one, but we get the feeling that Nate Williams (just 22 years old) is at one of those special creative peaks where songs are just bursting forth with no end in sight. And heck, we're not complaining, not one bit, cause when the songs are this damaged and catchy and kick ass, he can keep cranking them out FOREVER. Here's to a THIRD self titled record, BRING IT ON!!

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We've got ourselves a new obsession! We knew very little about Wavves before we put this disc in but oh my god once we did we became so instantly addicted. This is some TOTALLY BLOWN OUT beach party crusty pop that's as bombastic as it is so totally catchy. We think they're from San Diego and that makes perfect sense, cause these songs just make you want to skate and hang out by the ocean getting baked by the sun and throwing caution to the wind. Imagine No Age and Thee Oh Sees collaborating together or what it might sound like to play the Beach Boys and JFA at the same time. This is some seriously gritty grimey pop that makes you glad you still have that shitty car stereo, as this was meant to be blasted in the most lo-fi blown out way possible, while driving around getting lost in these sun soaked washed out anthems. Filled with such contagious youthful exuberance it's making us feel like we're 19 again, in the best possible way. There is such a bold urgency to this record, it grabs your attention and never lets go and we never want it to. As soon as it's over we pretty much only want to listen to it over and over again. We're reminded a bit of Holy Shit, Abe Vigoda, and the great and often overlooked 90's noise-pop outfit Further. But what makes Wavves so addictive is that they aren't a one trick pony, the few atmospheric electronic interludes and slower spacey tracks are just as potent as their wide eyed and full throttle jams. We've got a feeling there is a great future ahead for Wavves and what a totally awesome way for it to start. So rad!!!

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Not sure if there's still a romantic connection between these two bands, but there's certainly a sonic one, both obviously sharing much of the same musical DNA. This second installment in the two groups' Summer Is Forever series. Best Coast cover Nirvana's "Dumb", and what was already a gorgeous creepy crawl, becomes even more murky and moody, the sound super lo-fi, stripped down and skeletal, brittle guitar strum and echo drenched, wasted vocals, all wreathed in a blurred, hazy fug. Wavves offer up a brand new original, a sublime slice of super catchy, beachy, garage/power pop jangle and crunch. Also lo-fi, but less like moody murk of Best Coast's track, and more a sort of Joe Meek-ish, home brewed retro surf-psych, which most definitely harkens back to the group's less polished early sound. Both sides/tracks rule! And as is often the case with these sorts of things, guessing these are probably pretty limited too�

An Australian import, but although band leader David Watson is from that corner of the globe, the other players on here are generally to be found Downtown, New York City...Andrea Parkins, Kato Hideki, Ikue Mori, and others. Japanese turntable genius Otomo Yoshihide also appears. What makes this stand out from any other bunch of NYC all-star avant-jazz improv jams? Well, Mr. Watson's main instrument is the bagpipes! The result: totally great, unusual bagpipe, um, squeezing, in a "free-rock" context. Recommended.

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Brand new 7" from one the Blasted Canyons (that would be Heather, once a Bare Wire as well), their Castle Face debut was our Record Of The Week on last week's list, and weirdly enough, they're also on the quintuple flexidisc-book that is one of THIS week's Records Of The Week, needless to say we have mad love for Heather and all of her various projects, including now this one, Wax Idols, a solo project (although a proper band on this recording), and Wax Idols' sonic apple doesn't fall far from the Bare Wires / Blasted Canyons tree, which is just fine with us. The sound here is a little more sixties girl group though, a fuzzed out retro garage rock, but not as sunshiney and jangly as lots of those groups, more muscley, a little dark, and a little new wave-y, crunchy guitars, powerful echo drenched vox, snarly and sassy, over pounding drums and laced with glistening Cure like melodies. And hooks galore. Oh and that sixties girl group thing, we're not talking poodle skirts and sweaters, no we're talking leather jackets, ripped jeans and switchblades, in fact, it sorta sounds like the kind of band Pinky and Leather Tuscadero would start if they time travelled to the present day. The B side gets even murkier and more new wave, the sound washed out and distorted, more plodding and dour and darkly gloomy. Really great. Definitely psyched to hear more...

The title Discipline & Desire refers to Wax Idols' Hether Fortune's day-job (or rather night-job) as a dominatrix, before her tenure in the San Francisco garage-punk scene. In other words, fuck with her at your peril. Fortune's also to be found in the beloved distorto-punk-pop trio Blasted Canyons, whose two albums on Castle Face have long been favorites around these parts. With the first Wax Idols record on Hozac, Fortune didn't wander too far from what she was doing in Blasted Canyons with the short barked punk numbers; but on Discipline & Desire, she's painting her nails black and digging out the old Bauhaus t-shirts from back in the day, for a much darker, death-rock vibe. As such, she's continuing in a line of strong-willed, goth-inflected female fronted bands from San Francisco over the past couple of decades. Obviously, one can look all the way back to Romeo Void and The Avengers, but also more recently to Veronica Lipgloss, Subtonix, and The Vanishing. The songs are driven by Fortune's ice-queen demeanor through which she bellows impassioned tales of lust and fury on top of the buzzsaw drones and primitive rhythmic propulsion. Think X-Mal Deutschland, early Siouxsie, and Killing Joke's Night Time... and you're getting pretty close. Wax Idols also got some production assistance from Marc Burgess of The Chameleons, adding some true black-clad cred to the album. It's a record that's been on pretty heavy rotation here at aQuarius.

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Finally, a full length record from Heather Fedewa, aka one woman psychedelic jangle pop new wave garage rock combo Wax Idols, which seems to have been expanded to what essentially amounts to a full band for this full length. Fedewa is a member of aQ beloved recent Record Of The Week honorees Blasted Canyons, and she was a former Bare Wire as well of one of the punx in Hunx & His Punx, so with a pedigree like that it didn't really take a genius to figure out that we'd dig Wax Idols, and dig it we do, the first single we reviewed a while back was a big hit around here, with a fuzzed out garage rock girl group sound that didn't stray too far from the sound of her old band The Bare Wires, which was just fine with us, although as we mentioned in that review, the sound tended to be a bit darker, with more crunch, more murk, a definitely gloom pop vibe, although we have to say, none of that is present on the opening track here, which is fuzzy and crunchy and jangly, with plenty of tough girl swagger, reminding us a bit of the Runaways, especially with Fedewa's snarled echo drenched yelp on the chorus, although the rest of the song is pretty fuzzy and dreampoppy. "Hitman" too, could almost be Best Coast, or the Dum Dum Girls, raw and urgent, fuzzy and crunchy, with chiming guitar melodies over the fuzzy riffage, but then something strange happens, the chord progression of the chorus has this weird turn right at the end that's a little bit sour, and makes the hook have just a little bit of edge, which is probably a good description of this whole record, fuzzy, jangly, a little new wavey, but with just a little bit more bite than other sonically similar bands. In fact, if there was a girl group battle of the bands, that was in fact an actual battle, all of those other bands would get their asses KICKED. Just check out "Dilno", super rocking, blown out and fuzzy, distorted, rollicking and rocking, with some weird vox and a super dynamic stuttery chorus. As the record progresses, the songs seem to get a bit more moody, the sound stretching out into gloom pop territory, which totally suits the songs, and balances the more sunshiney numbers nicely. And then the record finishes off with maybe the poppiest jam here, all echo drenched vocals, warm shimmery strum, and sweetly melancholy minor key melodies, but even there, the song has plenty of dynamics, the multiple guitars weaving a lush almost shoegazey haze over the second half, but not enough to obscure Wax Idols' fuzz pop perfection. Fans of Bare Wires, Blasted Canyons, Thee Oh Sees, Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls, Best Coast, Girls At Dawn, Grass Widow, etc. this just might be your new favorite record.

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SORRY. Wow! An extremely well-done new magazine for hip hop heads, rare grooves collectors, and just appreciators of fine culture everywhere. Highly recommended! Gorgeous looking, perfect-bound, printed on thick paper in full color and just BEAUTIFULLY designed. Not only that, but you get articles on Bobbito (super famous hip hop radio DJ), cult-fave book The Humument, AQ-fave hip hopper Scotty Hard (with great photos of all of his vintage recording gear), an interview with DJ Shadow and the Cut Chemist, a profile of David Axelrod, cult-fave drummer Idris Muhammad (with full color photos of his entire discography), Lootpack beatmaker Madlib, blaxploitation films, and some long overdue nice 'n' detailed instructions on how to make your own LP shelving for about $10 per cube (that holds 85 records apiece).

I love looking at color pictures of old LP covers. Doesn't even really matter if they're rad rare soul/funk/jazz gems. But if they are, so much the better. Wax Poetics magazine is definitely a good place to find articles illustrated with such cover pics. And lots of other cool photos too. And the reading is fine as well, if you're into old-school hip hop, '60s and '70s jazz-funk, today's hip underground producers, that sort of thing. This ish: The Meters, Lyn Collins (RIP), the Wu-Tang's Mathematics, Eric B. & Rakim, Sharon Jones, King Jammy, and lots more...including a run-down on some obscure "left field Americana" LPs, the story of the DJ who first rocked the Skull Snaps break, and a feature about South Bronx hip hop photographer Joe Conzo, illustrated with lots of his pics from back in the day.

You love music or you wouldn't be reading our list, and it's probably pretty likely that you love the records that music comes on, too. (Or used to, and still does, some of the time). Well then Wax Poetics is the magazine for you. Lots of in-depth reading here on subjects that could be of interest to anyone into DJ/vinyl culture, this issue featuring stuff on David Axelrod, Mulatu of Ethiopia, Danger Doom, Blowfly, Jazzy Jay, early '80s Bronx hip-hop club Disco Fever, '70s Brooklyn Afro-jazz organization the East, and lots more. And there's plenty of what we especially love: full-color reproductions of record covers to look at, all set to stoke the imagination of your ears. And although it says Hip-Hop, Jazz, Funk, & Soul on the cover, that doesn't stop 'em from, for instance, sneaking in a Charalambides album amidst considerations of reggae, rap, and soul/gospel classics.

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SORRY. Another fine issue of this magazine for funk/jazz/hiphop/soul crate-diggers, both armchair and active... This ish features all sorts of stuff by/for/about musicians, producers, and djs: part 2 of WP's David Axelrod feature, interviews with DJ Cash Money, Skull Snaps, Bobbi Humhrey, and the Mizzell Brothers, and more. Including of course lots of photos and vintage album covers galore (which is the thing we love the most about this 'zine!!). Lots of lost gems are pictured and discussed, including a run down on a bunch of British avant jazz and Brazilian tropicalia treasures.

Bill Withers ("Ain't No Sunshine") is the cover star on this latest installment of Wax Poetics, the magazine of hip-hop, jazz, funk, & soul for those of us who appreciate all that good old music (and how it factors in to all the cool new stuff we're hearing). The art and design of how that music was packaged back in the day is also celebrated by Wax Poetics, with tons of vintage photos and album graphics reproduced. Besides the cover story on Bill Withers, stuff in this issue ranges from a colorfully-illustrated article about Blaxploitation cinema lobby cards to an interview with Cut Chemist to a look back at Herbie Mann's career to a really cool feature on "mom's record collection" -- a bunch of well known producers like Peanut Butter Wolf, Hank Shocklee, and Prince Paul, talking about the records they heard their mothers playing when they were kids! Always a good read, and visually appealing as well.

Another great ish of Wax Poetics, the magazine devoted to "hip-hop, jazz, funk, & soul" whose pages (138 this time) are stuffed with articles, reviews and interviews covering tons of badass and often obscure music. And of course there are loads of graphics and pictures, tons of photos and plenty of full-color album cover repros! This time, it's the "Hip-Hop Issue" (more than usual, that is), and it's got two different, random covers: one's got the late Jay Dee on it (to go with various rememberances found in the magazine), the other Public Enemy in their heyday ('cause there's an oral history of Hank Shocklee and the Bomb Squad production team inside). Lots more of course...we should just mention that there's an article about Bay Area hip-hop history wherein you'll find out just what "hyphy" is if you didn't already know.

Just when you thought that an issue of this magazine of hip-hop, jazz, funk & soul, couldn't get any better than the last one, the drop this Special Parliament-Funkadelic Issue on us! Pages and pages of individual articles/interviews devoted to the various funkanauts who've manned the Mothership, from George Clinton to Bernie Worrell to Gary Shider to Bootsy Collins to Billy "Bass" Nelson to felt-tip warrior, LP cover artist Pedro Bell... Wax Poetics is known for lots of colorful vintage album graphics and cool photography, so of course there's plenty of amazing images from the P-funk realm for them to incorporate here! There's some other stuffs n' things in this issue too, but if you aren't down for the upstroke and ready to make a mothership connection, keep your mind and your ass away from this.

Our favorite magazine of hip-hop, jazz, funk and soul both old and (sometimes) new is back with another great issue. "Boogaloo Bad Boy" Joe Bataan makes the cover. There's articles on early drum machines, the albums of Richard Pryor, Baltimore club music, and DJ Food's favorite cut-and-paste albums...among much much more. As always, a pleasure to look at as well as read.

On the cover: Lee "Scratch" Perry. Inside, also: Lloyd "Bullwackie" Barnes, Motown guitarist Dennis Coffey, Andy Votel, Eric Monte (creator of TV's Good Times!), an obit for Dewey Redman, The Soul Syndicate, a discussion of magnetic tape, stuff about graffiti, and more more more, including of course all the great vintage photography and mouthwatering rare vinyl porn you'd expect...

Funklord Rick James sure looks badass on the cover to this, the latest issue of the best hiphop/funk/soul/jazz magazine know, Wax Poetics. The feature is about his 1981 album Street Songs. Also inside: DJ Shadow, Chico Hamilton, Arthur Russell, Bunny Lee, DJ Spinna, Black Milk, and much more... If you haven't checked out Wax Poetics yet, you should. If you have, you'll what know to expect: porn for diggers. Vintage photos and album cover graphics all over, in gorgeous full-color. And you can read it for the articles too.

What supercool, snazzy, 138 page magazine has Mandrill on the cover this month? Wax Poetics of course. Featuring in-depth articles and tons of cool photos (lots of rare record covers to drool over especially) all about the best of '60s, '70s, '80s and on up to today in the realm of hiphop, jazz, funk and soul, Wax Poetics is pretty much a must if you're into that sort of stuff. This issue will also hip you to Brazilian legend Marcos Valle, DJ Andy Smith, old school rap MC Eddie Cheba, producer Kenton Nix, jazz cat Joe Sample, "boogie king" Leroy Burgess, Winstons drummer G.C. Coleman, and LOTS more. Especially rad: a feature (full color illustrated of course) all about James Brown playbills/programs.

One thing we love about this magazine of hiphop, jazz, funk and soul is the photography, and guess what, this is The Photo Issue! With Miles Davis staring out at you from the cover, and an article inside about his improvisational funk years... Also featured: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, East Bay funk, Peruvian funk, The Dragons, the Beastie Boys's Check Your Head album, and much more. Being the photo issue, many of the 186 pages of here are eyeball-pleasin' photo-essays, taking you into the early days of hiphop and other cool places.

Bobby Byrd, Devin the Dude, Barrington Levy, the Osaka Monaurail, a look back at Kurtis Blow's 1979 single "Christmas Rappin'" (not just a novelty, but a historical milestone)... All that and more is to be found in the 138 colorful pages of this new issue of the wonderful Wax Poetics, essential reading material for all fans of cool old (and new) hiphop, jazz, funk and soul!

As always, a must read for those with any interest in vintage grooves and DJ/hiphop/funk/soul/jazz culture. Grandmaster Flash on the cover, also with features on Eddie Harris, Newcleus, Mighty Hannibal, Camp Lo, S.O.U.L., Chuck Brown, the avant-jazz of communist Cuba, and much much more. As usual, packed with amazing color photography and record cover graphics.

Al Green on the front, Q-Tip on the flip. It's another as always awesome issue of Wax Poetics, our favorite magazine covering hiphop, jazz, funk and soul. 128 pages, lots of the usual beautiful photography and vintage album art. And text too: features on Estonian Rare Groove, the Afrobeat of Orlando Julius, King Britt on soundtracks, afro-jazz trombonist Phil Ranelin, Headhunters drummer Mike Clark, the two cover stars, and of course much more. Dig!

Without a doubt, one of the most passionate and well written music magazines around. Now on their 30th issue, Wax Poetics has been a shining light for all of us who love and need plenty of soul, funk, psych and free minded jazz in our lives. This issue is "The Rock Issue" and there are some great articles on AQ favorites like Rodriguez, Black Merda and cover stars Bad Brains. Also a Turkish psych primer, memorial pieces on Bo Didley, Jimmy McGriff, Ike Turner and Buddy Miles, and more. There are really insightful features on the last great Elvis Presley record In Memphis, a great feature on Dave Bartholomew, interviews with The Rascals, Don Letts and Ernie Isley... Wax Poetics is really one of the only music magazines we devour and read cover to cover every issue. Informative and so well written, with such obvious love for the music they cover. Filled with tons of amazing photos as well, each issue always so cohesive and such an obvious labor of love.

Another awesome issue of one of the best music magazines around. This time out, AQ favorite Shuggie Otis is on the cover and there's a really interesting interview with him inside. Also featured are MF Doom, Slick Rick, Larry Coryell, Mickey Dread, Os Mutantes, and Patrick Adams. Nice memorial pieces on Isaac Hayes, Roy Shirley and Jerry Wexler. We could go on and on as we really do read Wax Poetics cover to cover and it's one of the few music magazines we always keep around as they lend themselves to repeated reads and second looks.

Sly Stone makes the cover (did he really have to wait 'til issue 32?), and inside there's the usual profusely and colorfully photo-illustrated, deep-digging stuff about the likes of Jean Grae, Egyptian Lover and Arabian Prince, Jimmy Cliff, Large Professor, Houston rappers HSID, and even South Korean B-boys! Among other things. In case you didn't know already, or figure it out from that run-down, Wax Poetics is THE magazine of cool hiphop/soul/funk/reggae/jazz hipness old and new, for vinyl fetishists and general groove-hounds, and as usual this issue is a must-read if you're at all into that stuff, and why the heck wouldn't you be?!

Yo, it's the "Philly Issue". Soul masters Gamble & Huff on the cover. ?uestlove from the Roots. Radio DJ Sonny Hopson. Vibraphonist Vincent Montana Jr., and the whole Philly jazz scene back in the day. The Stylistics. And plenty more!! (But wait, where's Schooly D?) As usual, this magazine of all things groovy (jazz, funk, hiphop, soul, disco...) and worth diggin' delves deep with extensive interviews and colorful pictures.

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Yet another amazing power-packed issue featuring extensive articles on electro-funk pioneer Roger "Zapp" Troutman (especially notable is the difficulty and dangers of using a Talk Box) and Memphis Soul organ legend, Booker T. Jones. Dust Brother, E.Z. Mike Simpson, talks old skool funk. El Michels Affair enter the Wu-Tang Clan's 37th Chamber, while The Mahavishnu Orchestra meditate on beginnings and endings. Plus Ralph McDonald, Byron Lee, Def Jef, Broken Keys, Lord Finesse, STS9, and Glass Candy!

It's the Brazil Issue! With Gilberto Gil on the cover. Also Joyce, Ceu, Tim Maia, Jards Macale, Arthur Verocai, Airto Moreira and tons more. All the deep interviews and awesome vintage color photography you expect from this fine magazine of funk, soul, hiphop, etc.

Michael Jackson on the covers, front and back, but as a child in the '70s, Jackson Five era of course. Inside, there's plenty of MJ and Jacksons content, including a piece about director John Landis and the Thriller video. Also in this issue of our favorite funk/soul/jazz/hiphop magazine, there's stuff on Mayer Hawthorne, The Emperor Machine, Lee Fields, Shawn Lee, Illa J, Phenomenal Handclap Band, Nicky Siano, Wah Wah Watson and others... And as usual, there's tons of glorious full color photography, and record reviews, and record reviews with glorious full color sleeve photos... drool.

Curtis Mayfield lookin' superfly on the cover. Inside, a bunch of stuff on blaxploitation films. Also, David Holmes, Iceberg Slim, animator Ralph Bakshi, Library Music, and tons more interesting funky stuff. It would seem this is Wax Poetics' special cinema issue or somethin'. As always, great to read and just to look at, lots of vintage album cover art in full color in here to drool over. Right on.

It's the special "Africa" issue of this rad journal devoted to jazz, funk, soul, and hiphop grooves past and present. Hence, Fela Kuti on the cover. Inside, you'll also find pieces on Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, Pax Nicholas, Rail Band, Orchestra Baobab, Tony Allen, and plenty more. As always, the magazine is packed with colorful photos of vintage record sleeves, and plenty of enthused writing about the music from other knowledgeable musicians/DJs/collectors...

Issue after issue, Wax Poetics continues to be the place to go for the most informed and passionate writing and features on soul, funk, jazz, hip-hop and beyond. This time out, it's all about the hip-hop, with KRS-One and EPMD on the dual covers and inside great features on both, as well as Ice-T, Ice-Cube, DXT, as well as some nice in memoriam pieces on Guru, Chilly B and Malcolm McLaren. Cool features on the roots of freestyle, the impact of Latinos in hip-hop culture and as always great crate digger tips highlighting some obscure rare groove records that we all will have our eyes out for. Cover to cover, always a satisfying read!

Special RnB issue. 2 different covers, Barry White or Gil Scott-Heron. Back covers too, D'Angelo or Erykah Badu. Inside, all those folks, plus plenty more, including "An Oral History Of The Wah-Wah Pedal".

The Reggae Issue! It may seem like Wax Poetics has done this before, but besides having Lee "Scratch" Perry once on the cover, no issue has ever been fully devoted to reggae. Augustus Pablo and Gregory Issacs grace the cover. Features articles and interviews with Island Records label head, Chris Blackwell. Dancehall label Greensleeves, Dub Sound systems in the UK, Essential playlist by British Roots DJ David "Ramjam" Rodigan, Sugar Minott , Beres Hammond, Bob Andy of The Paragons, and of course the Roland Space Echo! ----* ----* Compilations : ----*

The colorful magazine covering all the rad sides of soul, funk, jazz, hip-hop and beyond is back with another classy issue. This time out War and Syl Johnson each get one of the covers. Inside tons of awesome stuff including features on The Budos Band, DJ Muggs, Melvin Davis, Claus Ogerman, Johnny Colon, and Al Kooper. As well as awesome articles on the minimoog, photographer Lyle Owerko's obsession with boomboxes, and our always favorite "re: discovery" section where the best rare groove albums get the page & attention they so totally deserve. As always another smoking issue of Wax Poetics!

Whoops, almost skipped an issue... on the cover of this special "dance issue" Juan Atkins, on account of The History Of Detroit Techno found on page 74. Other articles: Bohannon, Ron Hardy and Chicago House, Konk, Tom Moulton and the Disco Edit, disco diva Jocelyn Brown, an obit for Teena Marie, and a ton more, all profusely illustrated with color photos and vintage record graphics. Get schooled on dance music history, here!

More of a jazz-oriented issue here, the theme is in fact "Jazz's Mad Men". George Benson (on the cover), Billy Cobham, Phil Cohran, George Duke, and many more... also a piece on John Coltrane's lost recordings (or some being reissued), and Nostalgia 77.

More good readin'. And lookin'. At pictures. It's another thick (112 page) issue of this soul, funk, jazz, hiphop, anything groovy goes magazine, packed with vintage color and b&w photos and album art to make collectors drool. This issue: pieces on Earth Wind & Fire, Ramsey Lewis, Bobby Womack, Lamont Dozier, Solomon Burke, Billy Ocean, Dennis Coffey, and more.

All right! Another colorful issue of this great magazine devoted to pretty much anything groovy and generally of a certain vintage. On the cover, the late great Nina Simone, whose significant socio-political-cultural impact is assessed. Also this issue, rapper Shock G of Digital Underground, Brazilian bossa jazz cat Dom Salvador, synth popster Hudson Mohawke, Band of Gypsies bassist Billy Cox, roots reggae's Yabby You, and plenty more. Including, perhaps for the first time in Wax Poetics, some krautrock, with a feature on Neu! Though, they probably have at least written about Kraftwerk or Can before, we'd imagine.

The Latin Issue! Do you dig, do you spin, do you dig spinning and digging?? Vinyl collectors and music lovers, if you've got groove, this magazine is for you. As always, colorfully illustrated, deeply informed/informative. Lowrider oldies, Fania & Alegre All Stars, Cal Tjader, Speed Records, and on the cover, Eddie Palmieri, among the many treats this time 'round.

This now-quarterly mag of funk, soul, hiphop, jazz, and anything else groovy presents their 10th Anniversary issue, with his Purple Highness, Prince on the cover. Inside, a lot of Prince-related content, including "33 Reasons Why Prince Is Hiphop" by ?uestlove of The Roots. There's features on Morris Day, Jesse Johnson, Madhouse, The Family, 94 East... Also: Blood Orange, DJ Quik (talking about some of his favorite records), Larry Graham, Toro y Moi, Frank Ocean, and more. All, as always, copiously illustrated with full color photography. 104 pages.

Looks good, smells good, it's the new issue of Wax Poetics, all about the groovy shit new & old: El-P, Kurtis Blow, Nas, The Roots, Killer Mike, Shabazz Palaces, Oddisee, Robert Glasper, Coke La Rock, and more. Get schooled!

On the cover(s): Sade and Flying Lotus. Inside, also: Dam-Funk, Betty Wright, Cody Chesnutt, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Gary Bartz, and, uh, Lenny Kravitz. Among other peeps. All colorfully illustrated in the usual Wax Poetics fashion, with vintage photos and album covers and all that. Oh, and there's a cool piece about the NYC roller disco boogie scene in the '70s!

Another groovy, colorful issue of this funk, soul, hiphop, etc. obsessed magazine! On the cover: Daft Punk. Inside, De La Soul, Nile Rodgers, Teddy Riley, Jack Bruce, and Nina Simone via Me'Shel Ndegeocello, among others.

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