Wax poetics Spring / Summer Issue 2026: Mariah Carey, Tupac,

A truly special journal featuring some of the most iconic names in music, packed from front to back, full of deep insight, untold stories, new perspectives, and stunning visuals and photography.

We go from the record stores of New Orleans to the alt pop worlds of Gothenburg via the dance floors of New York and Chicago, detouring through Japan and then to post industrial British inner cities. With a touch of jazz, boogaloo and the unheard seeds of unique pop stardom. This issue is something else.

Our cover stories...

• Mariah Carey before the spotlight
• Tupac Shakur in Baltimore - the Born Busy years
• Nightmares on Wax in deep focus
• Mannie Fresh and the sound of New Orleans

Plus Leon Ware, Peaches Records, Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy, Yukimi, Joe Bataan, Wildstyle Sadar Bahar, Yoshiko Sai, Venna, Re:Discoveries. This issue is presented with our friends at Roland and has the real story behind their sell-out TR-1000.