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Rich Medina & Monk One
Summer gets officially underway in New York this Friday with the return of the notorious Ritmo Melao loft party featuring Rich Medina and Monk-One serving up healthy portions of Afro Latin dancefloor delights. (Check a live recording from the last Ritmo Melao jam.) With Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra‘s Gianni Mano on percussion all night, the party also [...]
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The Second Coming
Director and producer Chuck Statler—widely considered as the “godfather of the music video”—was tapped by Prince & Co. to helm The Second Coming and execute the twenty-three-year-old’s creative vision.
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26th Annual Jazz Reggae Festival
Wax Poetics and artdontsleep is giving away free tickets to this weekend’s Jazz Reggae Festival in Los Angeles. We’ll give a pair of tix for each day. All you have to do is email contest[at]waxpoetics.com by Thursday night! Drawing will be random, but you may tell us which day you prefer. Winners will be contacted [...]
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“Can’t Tell Me Nothing”
Pigeons and Planes named it one of the best ten indie covers of Kanye West songs. Download Kendra Morris’s version of “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” for free.
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Kendra Morris
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Kendra Morris “Spitting Teeth” Directed, shot, and edited by Taylor Jayne Ballantyne © 2012 Taylor Jayne Photography “Spitting Teeth” is the B-side (bass side) of “If You Didn’t Go” (WPR015)—the follow-up to the breakout debut “Concrete Waves” and the second single from Wax Poetics artist Kendra Morris. iTunes 7-inch vinyl Forthcoming Kendra Morris LP, Banshee, [...]
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Wax Poetics Radio Podcast 07
Apollo Brown and OC, BadBadNotGood, Andre Williams, and Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974–1984
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Rhythm Recordings
It certainly is a golden time for soul and disco reissues — Wax Po HQ is overflowing with a bounty of treats we never thought we’d see back in circulation. BBE leads the pack with a hefty five-disc set of Al Kent’s notorious Disco Demands re-edits. These sly reworks of ’70s obscurities first saw light [...]
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Johnny Osbourne
Reggae legend Johnny Osbourne plays
Lee Fields & Cody ChessnuTT
We’re giving away a pair of tickets! Just email us at contest[at]waxpoetics.com and we’ll have a drawing midweek. If you don’t win tickets, buy them! Don’t miss this show.
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Marc Mac
Hailing from Dollis Hill, London, Marc Mac is one half of the legendary outfit 4hero and founder of Reinforced Records, a cornerstone of early electronic music in the U.K. In the late ’90s, 4hero signed to Gilles Peterson’s Talkin Loud Records and went on to produce Two Pages and Creating Patterns before branching out on their [...]
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Adam Yauch (MCA), 1964–2012
I can still vividly remember my first rap show. It was the spring winter of 1986 1987, and the Beastie Boys were touring to support their debut album, Licensed to Ill. They weren’t opening for Run-DMC; they were headlining this tour, backed up by punks (Murphy’s Law) and funks (Fishbone). The Jacksonville Coliseum was nowhere near full [...]
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You got a 100 50 20 10 dollar bill, put your hands up
Stanley was from Philly and had great facial hair, just like Freeway. He was also famous for playing the double bass, which, as someone with a license plate that says "MORE808," is a phrase that makes my blood pump faster. DOUBLE BASS. This is like saying double small-of-my-back caressing or double piles of $100 bills to me.
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Sunken Treasure
It’s a damn shame when quality music falls through the digital cracks in this worldwide web of hype and flavors-of-the-minute. But it’s pretty unusual when that’s coupled with it actually falling through a literal crack, which may have happened to hundreds of copies of this vinyl LP that disappeared from a Brazilian ship earlier this [...]
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Tied by 12
Buddy Miles was from Nebraska but spent much of his music career in Chicago. The Time are Minnesotans. Delicate, thin-skinned California female that I am, catch me NOT being in any of these locations during the winter, thank you. It's a frigid 58 degrees on this Los Angeles evening; I need to be wrapped in a blanket and held close.
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Music Industry Confession
We love a good conspiracy theory. But even the ones that ring true can’t always be trusted. But then again, our entire global history is rife with real conspiracies, not just theories. Wax Poetics, along with many other good people in the music and publishing industry, received this email today from an anonymous source claiming [...]
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Kendra Morris Video
Kendra Morris “If You Didn’t Go” Video written, directed, and edited by Jacob Arden McClure. Purchase the digital single on iTunes and the 7-inch vinyl at the Wax Poetics Storefront. Full-length Banshee on Wax Poetics Records summer 2012. © 2012 Wax Poetics Records waxpoetics.com
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“If You Didn’t Go”
“If You Didn’t Go”—the follow-up to the breakout debut “Concrete Waves” and the second single from Wax Poetics artist Kendra Morris—delves deep into lush and slick terrain, anchored by a unique funkiness that recalls the glory days of ’70s radio and sunny blue-eyed soul.
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