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City: BROOKLYN
State: New York
Country: US
Signup Date: 4/3/2006
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 
The New Website Has Landed!
If you’ve been on the official Wax Poetics website in the past few days, you might’ve noticed that we’ve revamped our online style. Developed to provide our followers with up-to-date interactive content, our new homepage is your best source for all things Wax-related. That means an increased flow of exclusive content, giveaways, and features previously available only in Wax Poetics Magazine. It’s a new era for Wax Poetics online, so get with it from the beginning and head over to the re-launched page now to catch brand new words on Kool KeithShawn Lee, and aJean-Michel Basquiat reflection written by the one and only Def Jef

Free Track | "Soul Drums" Bernard Purdie (Nature Sounds)
Home to Pete RockTermanology,KMD, and MF DOOM, hip-hop labelNature Sounds has turned their collective eye to the past and reissued what some call the “holy grail of breakbeats,” Bernard Purdie’s Soul Drums. Best known as “the world’s most recorded drummer,” Purdie was a featured artist all the way back in Wax Poetics #2. So if you want the full story on this legend of the sticks, you’ll have to pick up a copy of Anthology Vol. 1. In the meantime, download your free piece of the Purdie puzzle with “Soul Drums” today by clicking here.

WP Events | The Numero Group presents Eccentric Soul Revue / Ticket Giveaway!
This coming November, you can catch the inimitable Numero Group as they bring the legends of deep soul to your town with the Numero Group Eccentric Soul Revue! The all-star show kicks off in Columbus, Ohio, on November 8 before hitting D.C. on the tenth, and then arriving at New York’s Grand Ballroom Manhattan Center on Thursday, November 12. And if you paid attention to the banner, you already know that we’ve got a free pair of tickets for the Grand Ballroom show available for giveaway! All you need to do to win is correctly answer the following:

Q: What page number in Issue #25 covers the Numero Group and Kid Soul?

As always, first correct answer wins, so get yours to contest@waxpoetics.com now! (Winner will receive an e-mail notification once we’ve processed the first responses). And if you’re too slow on the draw this time, worry not: there will be an additional competition for tickets to the Brooklyn show on November 13, so keep your eyes peeled!

WP Digital | The Phenomenal Handclap Band - 15 to 20 / You’ll Disappear Remixes
Since we posted the Phenomenal Handclap Band’s “15 to 20” in our free track library, the New York-based disco-rockers have assembled an entire album of remixes for the choice PHB cuts “You’ll Disappear” and the aforementioned “15 to 20.” Featuring remixes from Den Haan, Bim Marx, Telonius, and more, the 15 to 20 / You’ll Disappear Remixes also includes the previously unreleased “Pretty Mask,” a flute-rocking track ripe with psychedelic potency. Get ready to clap your hands to a whole new beat: click here to download the 15 to 20 / You’ll Disappear Remixes from WP Digital today.

WP Online Content | The Phenomenal Handclap Band
And speaking of our favorite bohemian Brooklynites, over at the newly redesigned Wax Poetics homepage we’re running the Phenomenal Handclap Band’s Issue #37 one-page feature, previously available only in the pages of WP. Head over to www.waxpoetics.com now to get the story behind this eclectic collective of boogie-beat beasts. And when you’ve finished with your free peek into Issue #37, stick around the site and check out some of our exclusive online content.