Frank Ocean "Wax Poetics" Feature - Wax Poetic 10th Anniversary Issue in Stores

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In case you haven't been keeping up with all things cool or reading this blog you might not have heard Wax Poetics, "The most beautiful magazine in the world" is celebrating their 10th anniversary and 50th issue with a new logo design and double cover featuring Prince and Frank Ocean.

Check out the Frank Ocean Soul Caliber interview, then treat yourself to the sonic pleasures of the DaM-FunK, "A Prince Mix".

Enjoy!

Wax Poetics March/April Issue No. 40 On Available Now

Wax Poetics Issue No. 40 is available now.

This issue features the Ohio Players and Smokey Robinson.

Additional articles on Joe Cuba, Gene Paul and Johnny Lytle.

Click link to purchase...

2010 SXSW Shows, Events & Gatherings - Audible Treats, URB, Converse: Wax Poetics + Stones Throw, Leaders of the New Cool, Red Bull, PUMA+Dubspot

Audible Treats Descends on SXSW Saturday, March 20th

The Independent

501 Brushy St.

Austin, TX

7pm-2am

Don Will & Von Pea

One Be Lo

Diamond District

Finale

Crown Royale

League 510

Ill-Literacy

TRUTHLiVE

Bisco Smith

DJ Amp Live spinning all night long.

Over 11 other flyers and shows inside, after the jump (click here)...

ALSO: The Lyricist Lounge Presents:

Pac Div, XV, Diz Gibran, Balance, A-Alikes, Crew 54, Jern Eye, Kosha Dillz, Rockwell Knuckles and Phranchyze(Superstar DJs between sets)

The Independent

501 N. IH 35

8pm

21 and up

Converse + Wax Poetics + Stones Throw = "45 Live "

The partnership is based on Wax Poetics Issue 40 which will feature tracks by Mayer Hawthorne and James Pants.

DJ sets spinning all 45's by:

Madlib

Peanut Butter Wolf

Dam-Funk

Amir

14KT

Speakeasy

412D Congress Avenue Austin, TX

March 17, 2010

8pm - 2am

FREE WITH SXSW BADGE

Download tracks from Stones Throw + Wax Poetics Issue 40's Converse 45

Wax Poetics and Dubspot present Funk Aid for Africa and Haiti

The Scoot Inn

1308 East 4th St. Austin TX

March 18, 2010

8pm - 2am

Adrian Younge and the Black Dynamite Orchestra

Ocote Sole Sounds

Chico Mann

Jovi Rockwell

Geimy Styles

Keys N Krates

Brownout

DJ Obah

DJ Rich Medina

DJ J. Boogie

DJ Chicken George

DJ Smile Davis

Click the flyers below to enlarge for information:

Kam Moye, Planet Asia, People Under The Stairs, Nappy Roots, Sage Francis and others.

Leaders of the New Cool

Pac Div, Stalley Izza Kizza, J Cole, Freddie Gibbs, 88 Keys, Von Pea & Don Will, X.O., Really Doe, Pill, Curtains, Diz Gibran and others.

DJ Don Cannon on the turntables

Peter Rosenberg hosting

Detroit Invades Austin - Hosted by Illa J

Slum Village

Finale

Crown Royale

Marv Won

Now On

Houseshoes

14KT

Korona

Check this one out. FREE DRINKS!!!

Brooklyn Vegan Attitude Adjustment

Black Milk

Torae

Buckshot
People Under The Stairs

Crown Royale

Waxpoetics "Free Track of The Week"

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Check out this "Free Track of The Week" from The Contemporary Jazz compilation on Tramp Records, courtesy of Waxpoetics.com.

High-Fly Orchestra - "Gettin' Down"

Who says nothing's free these days?

Check out the Contemporary Jazz compilation and hear some of the most creative and independent minded jazz artists in the world...

Video: Adrian Younge and the Black Dynamite Sound Orchestra - "Shot In The Heart"

Wax Poetics Magazine produced this video with Converse as part of the "Converse 45 Series", where they will package a limited 45 RPM with each issue of the magazine for a limited time.

Be sure to catch the Wax Poetics & Stones Throw showcase being held in conjunction with Converse at SXSW on March 17th(yes...it's a Wed!):

SXSW: LA, NYC & Detroit Touch Down in Austin, Texas - Mar. 17th-18th

Stones Throw and Waxpoetics will have their people in the house at SXSW on March 17th at the "Converse Presents 45 Live".

Dam-Funk, PB Wolf, Madlib, J Rocc, 14KT and Amir(this man's knowledge of records is crazy - ask Lord Finesse!).

Converse Presents 45 Live

Wed. March, 17th

Speakeasy

4120 Congress Ave.

Doors: 8pm

Catch Slum Village, Black Milk, Finale(tight rhymer), Crown Royale(Buff 1 & DJ Rhettmatic), Korona, Marv Won, Now On, Houseshoes will be in the building and one of the dopest rap producers with a musical ear... 14KT(you will hear more about him on this blog) and other performers.

"The D" will touch down in Austin, I know Mayer Hawthorne is supposed to be at SXSW, but, I'm not sure about this particular event.

SXSW Detroit HipHop Showcase

March 18th

Victory Grill

1104 East 11th St.

Time: 8pm - 2 am

What up StephToThaNay!!!

Wax Poetics + Rockstar Games Present: Chin Chin Working Out on Beaterator

Keep in mind, the music you are hearing was put together using the Beaterator.

For more info, head over to Rockstar Games.

Screen capture from the Beaterator Drum Machine.

Screen capture of Beaterator Sequencer.

Spree Wilson Creating with the Beaterator on the PSP

Rockstar Games and Timbaland are behind the creation of the Beaterator.

Head over to the Rockstar website to learn more about the Beaterator.

Wax Poetics and Rock Star Games partnered to have Wax Poetics create these dope short films I've been posting. Each film shows the Beaterator being used by a different artist to make music... real music!

Fresh!

I dig the way the Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan are used as a backdrop. (There's a lot of development(gentrification) happening along that East River.)

Psycho Les & K-Def Showing Off The Beaterator

I'm going to hit you with a few more of these artistically shot videos from Wax Poetics demonstrating the new Beaterator by Rock Star Games for use on the Sony PSP.

Love this video, I was surprised to know that Lester used that little piece to make that beat, but, more (or less) importantly the video looked so ill.

K-Def goes in on the beat in the video below. The fact that these great producers were able to create with this says how useful.

Click this link to learn more about this...

Shouts to Bert for the hook up!

Waxpoetics Michael Jackson/Jackson 5 Issue No. 37 - Available Now

Waxpoetics publishes its MJ/Jackson 5 issue for September/October.

The bi-monthly recognizes the artistry, the soul and the creative output of MJ and the Jackson family.

They don't stop there - they even do a piece on Motown's in-house hit making writers and producers, The Corporation.

Fonce Mizell(relation to Jam Master Jay -Jason Mizell and Englewood, NJ product) is interviewed.

As always, it's an issue full of great interviews with older and newer musicians. Its also got those obscure records for you crate diggers.

Click this link and see what the current Waxpoetics MJ/Jackson 5 issue is about...

Wax Poetics Magazine: Explained and Defined

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