Wax Poetics is the most well written, interesting music rag I’ve ever picked up. I look forward to the bi-monthly issue filled with stuff I didn’t even know I cared about — but do. Hell, I even like looking at the ads (are you getting this, advertisers?). While recently they have put out two great books – Cover Story and Anthology Vol. 1 (both of which I’ve picked up, of course) and have still had a steady stream of events in NYC, their Feb issue has been delayed for all of Feb. so far. Now I appreciate their attention to detail and wouldn’t mind if the issue delay was simply because of a lack of polish on the new issue or something, but in this age of instant information, I’d sure appreciate an update. My attempts at contacting them in the past have been met with pin dropping silence, as these electronic communiqués end up in the digital landfill called the Spam folder, as far as I can tell. Who knows.
Anyhow, I’ll mention sometime later that Wax Poetics has been touting a digital downloads service which I was all primed to take advantage of, despite being pretty anti-iTunes and generally anything less than CD quality audio. All mention of that seems to be gone, while in its place is a back issue “fire sale,” which makes me wonder why they are so eager to ditch their inventory.
So all of this scant evidence has got me thinking whether or not Wax Poetics might be considering closing up shop, which would be a damn shame as far as I am concerned.
