Wax Poetics has officially announced a monumental, multi-part archival release curated directly from the personal vault of five-time Grammy Award-winning producer and engineer Jimmy Douglass AKA “The Senator.” Douglass has spent over half a century behind the boards. From engineering rock and soul royalty at Atlantic Records (Led Zeppelin, AC/DCContinue Reading
Wax Poetics is having another auction and it’s for an early recording of Tupac Shakur from the Ge-ology Collection. Ge-ology is a DJ and visual artist who met Tupac in the ’80s when they were high school students in Baltimore, Maryland. The tape was recorded in the basement of Ge-ology’sContinue Reading
A rare Mariah Carey demo tape owned by Arthur Baker sold for more than 50,000 at an auction held by Wax Poetics. The tape that was given to Baker the night Carey was discovered at a 1989 Christmas party was offered in partnership with Brenda K. Starr, who invited CareyContinue Reading
New York music journal Wax Poetics is preparing to auction off a Mariah Carey demo tape from Arthur Baker’s archive. Loyal fans are familiar with Carey’s early days when she was a backup singer for freestyle artist Brenda K. Starr. Carey’s eventual breakthrough to get a solo deal was greatlyContinue Reading
