New Releases
The thing about music is there’s a seemingly never-ending supply. Music obsessives have searched the globe for new sounds, and…
February 4th, 2016 | Wax Poetics | New Releases
Marta Ren, with a voice that’s drawn favorable comparisons to female soul and funk greats like Marva Whitney, Vicki Anderson,…
January 15th, 2016 | Andrew Mason | New Releases
This is crazy. When Rocafort Records contacted legendary Latin songwriter/producer Bobby Marin about licensing a couple unreleased boogaloo/mambo tracks by…
December 15th, 2015 | Wax Poetics | New Releases
Ottawa DJs and impresarios Memetic and Zattar—founders of the city’s big DJ night, TIMEKODE—have put their spin on a few…
December 8th, 2015 | Wax Poetics | New Releases
Pop quiz: Where is the biggest Carnival parade in the world? Hint: It’s a Brazilian city that begins with ‘R’….
December 7th, 2015 | Gregory Scruggs | New Releases
For some, it’s all about portability. Seven-inch singles, aka 45s, are easy to carry around and fit in an overhead…
December 7th, 2015 | Andrew Mason | New Releases
Dark Entries and Honey Soundsystem Records have teamed up again to release another volume of gay porn soundtracks by San…
December 1st, 2015 | Wax Poetics | New Releases
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November 30th, 2015 | Wax Poetics | New Releases
In October of 1983 when the vinyl single of “Say Say Say” was released, there arguably wasn’t a hotter commodity…
November 18th, 2015 | Eric Luecking | New Releases
Wax Poetics Records duo Bones & Beeker released their debut album on November 13, 2015. Download some joints on iTunes…
November 17th, 2015 | Wax Poetics | New Releases
New York duo the Jack Moves released their debut album on October 30 on Wax Poetics Records. Buy it on iTunes…
October 29th, 2015 | Wax Poetics | New Releases
When Gilles Peterson walked into the London boutique record shop Love Vinyl, he by chance heard Holy Forest’s album playing. When he…
October 14th, 2015 | Wax Poetics | New Releases
One of the great underground hip-hop groups of the ’90s was Brooklyn’s Jigmastas. The duo, comprised of DJ Spinna on…
September 15th, 2015 | Andrew Mason | Mixtape/New Releases
Hailing from San Diego’s North County semi-desert city of Escondido, synth master Brian Ellis has been on a roll,…
September 14th, 2015 | Wax Poetics | New Releases
Japanese reggae reissue label Dub Store Records has just dropped a monster on us. Sax man and reggae architect…
September 11th, 2015 | Wax Poetics | New Releases
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September 8th, 2015 | Alexander Speetzen | New Releases
Professor Brian Oblivion drops his new album, Dissertation: Volume 1, today, available digitally, as well as the must-have LP and cassette,…
September 4th, 2015 | Wax Poetics | New Releases
Bosq is back with a new EP, Tumbalá released by Soul Clap Records and available at Beatport. This four-track project is filled with…
August 21st, 2015 | Wax Poetics | Mixtape/New Releases
Take equal parts ESG, Blondie, and Rimbaud, add a dash of tropical-gone-native exoticism, mix in the blender of late…
August 13th, 2015 | Andrew Mason | New Releases
In October 1968, Sly and the Family Stone put on four shows in East Village’s Fillmore to frenzied crowds. Having…
August 4th, 2015 | Eric Luecking | New Releases
The Best Of by the Fabulous Three has been available for several years on CD, and it seemed rather odd…
July 16th, 2015 | Eric Luecking | New Releases
DJ and producer Memetic (real name Kwende Kefentse) is a Canadian urban theorist, a Cultural Planner for Ottawa, and a…
July 1st, 2015 | Wax Poetics | New Releases
Jakarta Records new sub-label Habibi Funk is reissuing music from Tunisian band Dalton, a quintet who formed around 1968 when most…
June 29th, 2015 | Wax Poetics | New Releases
Drummer, composer, and producer Pat Van Dyke revisits his 2013 release, the Fender Rhodes–rich Technicolor HI-FI, with a new ten-track digital remix…
June 29th, 2015 | Wax Poetics | New Releases
Purchase Wax Poetics Issue 63. Contents: Blues Brother Mentored on the axe by Stevie Ray Vaughan’s brother Jimmy and mentored…
