Wax Poetics Records

Founded in 2007 by Andre Torres. Label manager from 2007 to 2010: Amir Abdullah. Wax Poetics was founded in Brooklyn in 2001 by Torres and close friend Brian DiGenti as a quarterly print publication dedicated to vintage and contemporary jazz, funk, soul, disco, Latin, hip-hop, reggae, blues, and R&B; 66 issues were published between 2001 and 2016. The magazine expanded its operations in this time to include apparel sales, a record label, and a book publishing imprint. Torres resigned from Wax Poetics in February 2016 and the record label has been inactive since 2018. Two issues - 67 and 68 - were published in 2018 and 2020 respectively. Wax Poetics was reborn as a Netherlands-based subscription-only publication in 2021 first with two "special collectors editions" then a second volume. Issues one and two were published in 2021 and the third and fourth in 2022.