*2025 RE-PRINT - Originally issued in 2013 ** ** No advertisements **

Wax Poetics takes you on a voyage through the music cosmos — from disco’s heyday to the underground scenes that gave birth to house, techno, and hip-hop.

We explore the rise, fall, and rebirth of disco, the backlash that tried to bury it, and the resilient Black and queer communities who kept the scene alive. From Nile Rodgers and Gino Soccio to De La Soul, Slum Village, J Dilla, and Teddy Riley’s genre-blurring New Jack Swing — this issue maps the interstellar lineage of dance music.