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JIMMY G. AND THE TACKHEADS: THE FEDERATION OF TACKHEADS T he history of funk is not just knee deep, but contains many layers, beginning with James Brown wailing soulfully as booming bass, drums, and guitars roar behind him. A few years later, the gritty Black noise slowly transformed from the gutbucket of Brown’s brand-new bag to the Afro-intergalactic vibe of spaceman conceptualist George Clinton and his musical astronauts. CONTACT - WAX POETICS STORE Contact. If you have any questions then please contact shop@waxpoetics.com. LES MCCANN ON HIS MUSICAL HISTORY AND RETURN FROM A STROKE Over the last few years, McCann has been battling the effects of a debilitating stroke. But like his old label-mate at Atlantic, Mose Allison, used to sing, Les takes “trouble with a smile, man.”. At sixty-eight, he is still thriving, gigging, and painting.

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FAMILY AFFAIR: CYNTHIA ROBINSON & SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE Family Affair. Cynthia Robinson was a single mother when she joined Sly and the Family Stone as a trumpeter and vocalist in 1966. One of the band’s most prominent figures, off stage she became lovers with Sly, giving birth to their daughter, Sylvyette “Phunne” Stone, in 1976. Years later, as Robinson carried the torch with the Family WAX POETICSVOICES OF GEMMAWAX POETICS STOREFRONTNEWS Tapes, synths, and independent music in 1980s Japan. In the late 1970s through mid-’80s, a Japanese DIY scene flush with post-punk attitude and electronic ambience offered a

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BARRY WHITE’S PASSION TOOK HIM TO THE HEIGHTS OF MUSIC Barry White’s unlimited passion took him to the heights of music. I t was winter of 1994, and I had just scored a sweet assignment to interview the king of “champagne soul,” Barry White, in Europe. Arriving at the chaotic passport office the following morning, the middle-aged woman behind the counter popped her sweet, sticky gum and

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FAMILY AFFAIR: CYNTHIA ROBINSON & SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE Cynthia Robinson was a single mother when she joined Sly and the Family Stone as a trumpeter and vocalist in 1966. One of the band’s most prominent figures, off stage she became lovers with Sly, giving birth to their daughter, Sylvyette “Phunne” Stone, in 1976. WAX POETICSVOICES OF GEMMAWAX POETICS STOREFRONTNEWS Get the Issue 01 & 02 package! Get Issue 01, Issue 02, the digital Dance Floor Issue & 12 months digital access. Subscribe Subscribe

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cannabis.

CONTACT - WAX POETICS STORE If you have any questions then please contact shop@waxpoetics.com LES MCCANN ON HIS MUSICAL HISTORY AND RETURN FROM A STROKE Then there were a couple of surprise left turns that the boys in the front office at Atlantic Records never saw coming. No matter how weird and experimental things got cutting sides with producer Joel Dorn back in the early ’70s, Les always held the trump card when the two of them were beckoned by the Brothers Ertegun like a pair of naughty

school boys.

FAMILY AFFAIR: CYNTHIA ROBINSON & SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE Cynthia Robinson was a single mother when she joined Sly and the Family Stone as a trumpeter and vocalist in 1966. One of the band’s most prominent figures, off stage she became lovers with Sly, giving birth to their daughter, Sylvyette “Phunne” Stone, in 1976.

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PRINCE: MAY U LIVE 2 SEE THE DAWN Prince May you live to see the dawn. YouTube on the other hand has become alive with television performances from Arsenio , NAACP Image Awards , the MTV Musicology special, after shows recorded from some shitty camera, official videos, unreleased material, etc. In other words, everything that would have been taken down very quickly were

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