For Issue 31, we talk to some of music's most mysterious figures. Cover artist Shuggie Otis tells the engaging tale of his rise to stardom and descent from the spotlight. We also look behind the mask at rapper-in-disguise MF DOOM, and we catch up with funky-disco icon Patrick Adams, the man behind many underground hits.

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Bad Brains, Elvis, and much much more. The Rock issue, from Wax Poetics. Available now at Boundless NY.

With bright colors for summer heat, Wax Poetics 29 blasts into the funky avant-garde with Herbie Hancock and his Mwandishi band, written by producer Kirk Degiorgio. Mark Skillz returns with another old-school hip-hop cover feature: Spoonie Gee lit up the streets with his tales of gritty realism. Get your Waxpoetics at Boundless NY.

Cuttin heads, original sounds, funk city, Q-tip, Al Green and MUCH MORE! Wax Po is in full effect in 08! Available at Boundless NY.

Hip Hop Issue: Dec/Jan 2008. 9th Wonder, Ralph McDaniels, Devin the Dude, Evidence, Alchemist, Just Blaze, Barrington Levy... This is a collectors item. Get it here.

Cover Story: Album Cover Art vividly explores an element of music culture that has withered with the advent of MP3s and digital downloading. Records possess a visual as well as an aural capacity for storytelling. The record cover--eye candy for the music lover--speaks a language rooted in the environment and era of the music itself. And, more intimately, a record can create a profound sense of analogy with its owner, and it's this relationship that we share.

Preface by Brian DiGenti and introduction by Dave Tompkins. The Wax Poetics team handpicked twenty albums apiece, 240 albums in all, twelve chapters: editor-in-chief Andre Torres; editor Brian DiGenti; contributing editors Matt Rogers, Andrew "DJ Monk One" Mason, Dante Carfagna, and J. P. Jones; contributing photo editor Brian "B+" Cross; contributing writers Jeff "Chairman" Mao, Oliver Wang, Robbie Busch, and Dave Tompkins; and label head Amir Abdullah.

Issue 11 Winter 2005: Soul Limbo-Featuring interviews features with DJ Numark, John Klemmer, Bill Adler, CIT Records, Afrika Bambaataa, Charles Wright, ...

Bill Withers from the soul, Herbie Mann,Detroit Techno, Brazilian Soul, Cut Chemist, Studio One.

Issue 13, Summer Issue: The Meters, Eric B & Rakim, King Jammy, Gary McFarland, Sharon Jones, JVC Force, Panama Funk and more!

Issue 14, Fall Issue: David Axelrod: Architect of Jazz Fusion, James Gadson, Mulatu of Ethiopia, Blowfly, Jazzy Jay, Disco Fever, 12x12 and more!

Wax Poetics is still holding it down for the funk aficionados out there. Inside you'll find in depth articles on collector faves the Skull Snaps, round two with Axelrod, Jamaican Bassist Jackie Jackson, the soulful Bobbi Humphrey, the ladies of disco 12's, plus DJ Cash Money ridiculous collections (not just records). Oh yea, the super-funky Mizell Brothers take the cover story.

Featuring Parliament Funkadelic, George Clinton, Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins, Garry Shider, Billy "Bass" Nelson, The Parliaments, Pedro Bell, Overton Lloyd.