Wax Poetics
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| Editor-In-Chief Editor |
Andre Torres Brian DiGenti |
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| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| Circulation | 77,400 |
| Publisher | Wax Poetics, Inc. |
| First issue | December 2001 |
| Company | Wax Poetics, Inc. |
| Country | United States, Japan |
| Based in | Brooklyn, NY |
| Language | English, Japanese |
| Website | waxpoetics.com |
| ISSN | 1537-8241 |
Wax Poetics is a quarterly American music magazine dedicated to vintage and contemporary jazz, funk, soul, Latin, hip-hop, reggae, blues, and R&B in the crate-digger tradition; the name of the magazine is itself an allusion to vinyl records.
Since the first issue of Wax Poetics was published in December 2001, the magazine has expanded its operations to include apparel sales, a record label, and book publishing imprint.
In November 2008, Wax Poetics, Inc. unveiled Wax Poetics Japan.
In spring 2001, Editor-In-Chief Andre Torres was living in New York City and conducting preliminary research for a documentary on die-hard record collectors when he realized there were no publications to consult devoted to the culture of beat-digging. He scrapped the documentary and, instead, decided to start his own quarterly to fill what he perceived to be gaps in the landscape of contemporary music magazines.
"No one was even touching jazz, soul, funk, or anything like that", Torres said in a March 2008 interview with Current TV. "What I was trying to do was essentially look at hip-hop through that lens."
Torres enlisted the help of Brian DiGenti, a close friend with editorial experience as a freelance writer. Both Torres and DiGenti had graduated from the University of Florida in 1995—Torres with a degree in painting and DiGenti with a degree in English. Although they had met at school, they didn't begin to develop a friendship until they had both moved to New York City in the late 1990s. There, they often made beats and went mining for vinyl together, further cultivating a common fascination with the crate-digging lifestyle. DiGenti had moved to California about a year before Torres called about the start-up, but agreed to co-found the publication across the country.
For a year, DiGenti and Creative Director Kevin DeBernardi, then a partner in the fledgling quarterly, collaborated to create a mock-up of Wax Poetics. In December 2001, Torres, DiGenti, and DeBernardi independently published the first issue, which cost $6 USD and featured stories on Bobbito, Scotty Hard, Idris Muhammad, Charles Mingus, and Madlib. The magazine continues to be independently published.
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