WAX POETICS Issue 59 - AALIYAH / KELELA COVER Artist_Hauschka Filled with a variety of

Filled with a variety of sounds and genres

such as Ibrahim Hesnawi

for the world at large to hear what’s been on her mind for quite a while

some in cities where Waits had never played before

Many tracks are performed in his native Akita dialect

WAX POETICS Issue 59 - AALIYAH / KELELA COVER Artist_Hauschka Filled with a variety ofVeteran music journalist Michael A. Gonzales looks back twenty years on Aaliyahs debut album, the controversy with R. Kelly, and the follow up album with Timbaland that changed the landscape of R&B. Includes never before published photos of Aaliyah by photographer Jonathan Mannion. Novelist T. P. Carter interviews newcomer and runs down the L. A. electro bass scene. Contents: Aaliyah Kelela Edwin Birdsong Rinder & Lewis Terry Reid Jimmy Jam