wax poetics magazine: c/d?

So has anyone heard this yet?

http://waxpoetics.com/storefront/product_info.php?cPath=30&products_id=99&osCsid=f0134a9aeb8e55810d63d5d4b207b78e

The magazine is kind of hit or miss to me.

I'll read it depending on who the features are on.

Yeah I think my biggest issue with it, isn't the writing (which is pretty uniformly good) but more that I don't really care that much about soul/funk or crate-digging so the part of the magazine that isn't on reggae or hip hop I tend to just skim. But that's not their fault any more than it is the Wire's for being into musique concrete and modern composition and experimental stuff than I could care for.

yeah I read it about as much as I read the Wire.

Their Too $hort interview was pretty great.

Yeah that was good issue. It had a long Betty Davis piece too.

The Wire is more frustrating, because a lot of the stuff I am really really into gets token genre sections (dub/reggae/critical beats/hip hop) and then basically is ignored in the rest of the magazine.

what aspect of mag does anthology book emphasize, if any?

i don't know but i want it

i think i hate funk

it's basically the best of the first 5 issues. if you're a fan of the mag and don't have the early issues it's worth your time, albeit pricey.

i think i hate funk

-- deej, Monday, November 26, 2007 5:21 PM

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It's nearly $40 isn't it? I wonder if a soft-cover version is in the offing.

this mag is great.

deej otm.

at least the kind these guys are pushing. dusty 45 shadow/cut chemist type stuff. boooooring.

i haven't bought this magazine in years although i pick it up every time i see it at a store.

It's potential birthday gift for an eclectic friend, I hafta figure out if it's in the budget.

"eclectic"

dusty 45 shadow/cut chemist type stuff. boooooring.

i haven't bought this magazine in years although i pick it up every time i see it at a store.

-- jaxon

eccentric garbage, amirite?

i keep buying this even though i only really look at the pictures.

there is a column called "weird americana" or something like that that covers private press free electronic / free folk / free jazz stuff from the 70s. things like iasos and moondogg and brother ah and what not. killer, killer column.

i also really like the "5 records" thing they have in the front of each article. very tightly written.

the interviews with old jazz dudes are pretty good, even though it's generally a lot of the same experiences.

Awesome inteviews with all the guys besides Mtume who were with miles davis around the On the Corner days. I learned a lot about their process then.

I think this magazine is better than JaXoN gives it credit for (although the "look at us dust off breaks and samples" stuff when it occurs is pretty annoying.) The picture thing last issue and the Miles sidemen interviews (okay some of it was a retread of the Electric Miles book I have, but still) were really really good. And yeah the five records things are usually really good.

i still think the magazine's great, (like you) i just have little interest in the music they're presenting, even though it's sort of catered directly at me. i mean, i still only buy old records that are usually funky and often because i know there's a sample on it. i just feel that they're sort of not hip to what's "cool" right now. as is with most beat diggers and hip hop headz, they're stuck in this golden age of breaks and samples and how hip hop and funk should be. if it were really up to the times, they'd have more sections on disco and euro funky rock and cosmic (i think they actually had a baldelli interview?) and folk and just more obscure genres. or maybe they do and i just haven't actually read it in a while

hoos, go eat shit

Dude I subscribe to the magazine. It was as much a self-depricatory comment as it was a playful jab at yr gift-giving subject.

Didn't mean to offend you though, apologies.

I'm sayin, no personal attack intended, just referencing another prominent shirtless dude whose circumstance I found amusing.

lol jk hoos

almost quoted that, actually! then i figured dude doesn't read snap etc

they had a great arthur russell piece a few issues back.

theyre like the black music mojo really, i just wish the writing was better sometimes.

The book is hard to find in NYC brix-and-mortar stores

I find this thing consistently good.

Wax Poetics turned me on to Little Howlin Wolf. Who'da thunk it?

nice feature a few months ago about Canberra, who did the original version of "Shack Up"...ditto the Arthur Russell story...

which is to say, Banbarra...("Shack Up" was most certainly not recorded by the capital of Australia)...

be cool if it was, though

its a bit expensive too.

Wax Poetics or the Wax Poetics book?

since I couldn't find the book in time, I got my friend a John Peel bio.

xpost - not seen the book (although im going to try and find it now), so the mag.

How much is it in the UK? It's what $8-9 here in the US which is about normal for a specialist mag like that.

Could easily be £5.99 here then. £4.99 at the cheapest. I think Borders sells it.

What does something like the Wire sell for in the UK?

I was pretty religious on reading this cover to cover the first ten issues or so .... then it got a little too much like "on day 15 of recording Earth Rot, David Axelrod salted and peppered his eggs but did not finish his bacon ... and was said to give the waitress only a 9 percent tip!!"

j/k

they cover a lotta great stuff (the private press column vahid mentioned is really good) but I found I was never finishing the articles even when it was a topic that really interested me

What does something like the Wire sell for in the UK?

the Rick James issue was fuckin great.

yeah it was and i've bought every issue since mostly because of the same reasons baja lists. had higher hopes for the photog issue TBH.