Bob Marley: Portrait of the Legend

Spike Jonze and Beastie Boys met for the first time in Los Angeles in 1991, when Jonze went out to photograph the band for the cover of Dirt magazine. A connection formed between the three MCs and the young photographer, which has lasted throughout their careers. Almost thirty years later–published to coincide with the release […]

Created by a group of writers and record diggers, this is the cult music mag featuring ‘trailblazers, cultures and stories that shape the sounds of yesterday, today, and beyond’, following its reader-supported relaunch in 2021, Wax Poeticsis back. Exploring hip-hop, funk, techno, tropicalia, jazz, and beyond, Wax Poetics covers everyone from ‘the greats, to the off-beat mavericks, and the scenes […]

In 2008, with help from Jay-Z and Puff, Obama got the hip-hop vote, and became the first African American to be elected president. For a brief moment the “Audacity of Hope” seemed attainable. Yet only months ago the Ferguson riots brought an abrupt end to that hope, making emerging hip-hop artists, such as J Cole […]