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Wax Poetics Radio 001
Los Angeles DJ and musician Miles Perlich kicks off our official debut of Wax Poetics Radio podcasts. You can catch Perlich’s United Groove broadcasts on L.A.’s KJAZZ 88.1 FM every Saturday from 10 PM...
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Wax Poetics Radio 002
Wax Poetics Radio Presents “Bad Data” with host Chris Peters Soul singer Chris Clark tells the story of her audition for Berry Gordy. The Stepkids have a new record out on Stones Throw Records. Author...
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Wax Poetics Radio 003
Sam Beaubien of Will Sessions talks about the band’s work on the Real Sessions collection and Elzhi’s Elmatic mixtape. DJ Wordy discusses hip-hop in China and the WordySoulspeak project. Quinton...
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Wax Poetics Radio 004
Matt Sullivan at Light in the Attic talks about Korean guitarist Shin Joong Hyun and LITA’s new compilation Beautiful Rivers and Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound of South Korea’s Shin Joong Hyun...
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Wax Poetics Radio 05
Egon at Now-Again Records talks about Kourosh Yaghmaei and the collection Back From the Brink: Pre-Revolution Psychedelic Rock From Iran: 1973-1979. Author Tad Hershorn discusses his book Norman...
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Wax Poetics Radio 06
Author Pat Thomas discusses his book Listen, Whitey!: The Sounds of the Black Power Movement 1965–1975 and the companion sixteen-song soundtrack (purchase the LP at our storefront). Producer and MC...
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Wax Poetics Radio Podcast 07
Seven from Chocolate Industries talks about his compilation Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974–1984. Producer Apollo Brown discusses Trophies, his collaboration with OC of Diggin’ in the Crates...
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Wax Poetics Radio Podcast 08
Waajeed talks about the re-launch of Bling47.com and his appreciation of Juan Atkins and Underground Resistance. Oliver Wang from Soul-Sides.com discusses his piece on retro soul from the book Pop...
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Wax Poetics Presents 1983
Wax Poetics picked a year at random and compiled a 68-song playlist. The following tracks were either released as a single or on an LP in 1983. Sometimes, the LP itself was first released in 1982 in...
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Wax Poetics Presents
Bobby “Blue” Bland, soul and blues pioneer, died at age eighty-three on Sunday, June 23, 2013, in his home outside of Memphis, Tennessee. Born in 1930 just north of the city, Bland came up with other...
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Sly and the Family Stone
Higher! is not the first box set from the cross-genre group. That honor goes to Best Buy’s The Collection from 2007, which assembled the group’s seven albums from Epic Records, eventually reissued as...
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South African group Fantasma drops “Eye of the Sun” video and shares Spotify...
South African group Fantasma recently released their debut EP, Eye of the Sun, via Soundway Records. Fronted by creative pioneer and filmmaker Spoek Mathambo, the five-man collective creates a unique...
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Wax Poetics Presents Sunset Summer by Induce
Like his recent move from his hometown Miami to a just-as-sunny Los Angeles, with his new EP, Sunset Summer [download] (Wonderful Sound 015), Induce has yet again gone 180º—a move perfectly in line...
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Soft Rock That’s Hard A.F.
To celebrate the North American release of Young Gun Silver Fox‘s West End Coast (Wax Poetics Records) on Friday, July 15, 2016, we’ve put together a little playlist of some soft rock, yacht rock,...
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Iconic lowrider oldies compilation East Side Story to be explored as a video...
“Is this your tio?” “Is this your Moms and pops?” With these questions, Chicana DJ and East Side Story Project founder Melissa Dueñas started her research and hunt for the faces and backdrops from the...
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East Side Story Vol. 1–12
To celebrate the East Side Story Project, we’ve put together the most comprehensive Spotify playlist of the original twelve-LP compilation series East Side Story, the iconic lowrider oldies bootleg...
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Curtis Mayfield playlist by Traveling Soul cowriter
Travis Atria is the cowriter (with Todd Mayfield) of the new Curtis Mayfield biography, Traveling Soul. This playlist features many touchstones of Curtis’s career, as well as a good sampling of...
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Wax Poetics Presents 1983
Wax Poetics picked a year at random and compiled a 68-song playlist. The following tracks were either released as a single or on an LP in 1983. Sometimes, the LP itself was first released in 1982 in...
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