Maxwell performs ‘Fist Full of Tears’ (VIDEO) @ VH1 Storytellers

June 17, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Tags: Maxwell Storytellers Maxwell turned the lights low and performed “Fist Full of Tears,” live for the VH1 Storytellers series recently. The soulful crooner said one of the things that inspired the track was what was going on in Iraq and Afghanistan. “The fact that we’re fighting a religious war is crazy to me,” he ...

The Way They Were: Maxwell circa ’96

February 16, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Yes, that is Ananda Lewis also, but when Maxwell came out in 1996, he and D’Angelo ushered in this new thing, called neosoul. It was a sub genre of what we had all grown up to on the radio back in the day. Now, I won’t get into the difference between old Maxwell and ...

We got Maxwell back, but Where’s Lauryn Hill?

August 12, 2009 4 Comments

Tweet When we heard the “smoove” soul of Maxwell come back earlier this summer with a decent resurrection, it sparked our appetite for the meat-and-potatoes of modern, sophisticated love-soul, aka, Ms. Lauren Hill. You don’t understand, we don’t want Lauren Hill; we need Lauren Hill. We need some “Miseducation” II. We need the extended, unedited ...

Maxwell Finally Explains His Long Absence From Music

June 30, 2009 No Comments

Tweet In case you missed it, Maxwell was featured in Sunday’s New York Times. The crooner said the last set in the trilogy that is Black Summer’s Night is so hot “like you might have to include condoms in it.” He also finally explained his long absence from music when he said: “When we all ...

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