Erykah Badu News

After an 8 year hiatus, Maxwell is back!Preview his new album, BLACKsummers'night, the first of a trilogy of albums to be released over 3 years, right here before it hits stores on 7/7!... Maxwell - Play All Biography Along with fellow founders D'Angelo and Erykah Badu, Maxwell was enormously important in defining and shaping the neo-soul movement ...

For an all-too-brief moment in the late-'90s, pop music seemed on the verge of a genuine soul revolution.Lauryn Hill, Maxwell and D'Angelo were just three of the prominent neo-soul singer/songwriters reaching back to the smooth, socially conscious sounds of the '70s while subtly incorporating a few modern flourishes.

Definition of Soul: Femme Fatale features N'Dambi and a special performance by Choklate, hosted by Moma Sol with sounds by Chicago's Joe Kollege, Saturday July 11, 2009, The Jazz Cafe in the Detroit Music Hall, 350 Madison Avenue Detroit, MI 48226.

Why join? Artist Profile: Maxwell About the artist Along with fellow founders D'Angelo and Erykah Badu, Maxwell was enormously important in defining and shaping the neo-soul movement that rose to prominence over the latter half of the '90s. Drawing his greatest inspiration from the concept of the R&B auteur (looking to artists like ... more ...

Nelson George, Grammy Award winner, filmmaker and author of just-out City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post Soul Success and over a dozen other books, was the writer in the hip-hop movement and came out of Ft.

Brooklyn Borough President has officially declared Saturday June 27, 2009 QUEEN AFUA DAY in Broklyn, NY to honor of the highly proclaimed Queen Afua's Heal Thyself Natural Living Center expanding to become The Queen Afua Wellness Institute .

Dance4Life is back with a second album on June 26th . Featuring Paul Oakenfold , Above & Beyond , Gui Boratto , Anderson Noise , D.O.N.S. , John Dahlback , Barbara Tucker and Chuckie have all granted the free use of tracks in support of dance4life.

Today, I'm sharing a phone conversation with songwriter and vocalist, N'Dambi . Once recognized as a background vocalist for Erykah Badu , N'Dambi not only performed vocals but also co-wrote with Erykah, as well as several artists in the Dallas music scene.

"My parents maintained a very musical household," says singer-trumpeter Tori Roze.

As her funk band kicks into overdrive, a mash of clanging cymbals and squealing guitar riffs, Janelle Monae drops her microphone and locks eyes with the sea of strangers in front of her.

Vocalist TyKee fronts Blount Harvey, who will play at Johnson's Pub on Friday. Blount Harvey Eight-piece hip-hop band from North Carolina brings big sound to Johnson's Pub There's a lot to like from Blount Harvey, a balance of hip-hop, R&B, soul and jazz.

Festival fashion is always--how shall we put it?--delightfully eccentric, and the style at this weekend's Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee didn't disappoint.

Erykah Badu performs during the Bonnaroo Arts and Music Festival in Manchester, Tenn., Sunday, June 14, 2009.

By Michael Krimper LIVE REVIEW In anticipation of releasing her brilliant sound odyssey, New Amerykah Pt.

Supplying the good times will be none other than Eureka's own Blue Rhythm Revue.

Sa-Ra's rep as future-soul avatars has seemed more myth than reality, with a messy discography that includes an unreleased debut for Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music and several contributions to Erykah Badu's epic New Amerykah Part One .

No matter what kind of music you're into Crossing Lanes has something for you, promises the band's vocalist Christine Paulino.

Erykah Badu at Club Nokia Since Erykah Badu's nu-soul juggernaut Baduizm hit in '97, the now-37-year-old has established herself as a monument in the dry desert of R&B's elite talent in recent years - crafting herself as an instantly recognizable, complex and multidimensional force.

Quick, name a magus of the female persuasion, a black sorceress who wields sound like a talisman.

Not that he'd wish it on anyone, but it was during his ten-year sentence in prison that Lyfe Jennings developed his honest sound, thanks to isolation and Erykah Badu.