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Post by SHOOTER on Aug 21, 2008 21:56:41 GMT -5
November 1st! I'm there!
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Post by Active Aggressive on Aug 22, 2008 9:11:23 GMT -5
Um, I need to see this show in Boston!
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Post by whatitlooklike on Aug 26, 2008 14:52:02 GMT -5
Maxwell R & B music is missing you!
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Post by sdot23 on Sept 25, 2008 17:33:04 GMT -5
Maxwell is going to be on 106 & Park tomorrow to make a big announcement.
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Post by busyboy on Sept 25, 2008 17:41:08 GMT -5
:o
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2008 17:58:33 GMT -5
Maybe he's announcing that he's finally given up.
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Post by ROLL OUT on Sept 25, 2008 18:03:23 GMT -5
I dont understand why there is still any anticipation for him.
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Post by Nick on Sept 25, 2008 21:21:19 GMT -5
Maxwell is going to be on 106 & Park tomorrow to make a big announcement. Maybe Clay Aiken inspired him? lol All kidding aside, I hope he tells us about the single and album. We already have the tour dates.
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Post by Nick on Sept 25, 2008 21:22:22 GMT -5
I dont understand why there is still any anticipation for him. Why? He's an amazing artist, that's why. Then again, you have a Bow Wow avatar.........
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Post by Nick on Sept 25, 2008 21:22:57 GMT -5
Maybe he's announcing that he's finally given up. Cunt! ;)
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Post by hidizzyguy on Sept 26, 2008 17:20:18 GMT -5
Ugh, I'm not even going to let myself get excited over this anymore. Grr.
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Post by sdot23 on Sept 26, 2008 17:29:08 GMT -5
Ugh! The announcement was that he's going on tour.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2008 17:38:16 GMT -5
LOL. I'd think you guys would have learned by now.
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Post by Nick on Sept 26, 2008 19:03:27 GMT -5
Highlights of the interview:
Tour now, album in 2009.
He will do 3 new songs for these October/November concerts.
He confirmed it's a trilogy, 3 albums over 3 years.
He has 33 songs done already.
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Post by SHOOTER on Sept 26, 2008 19:15:11 GMT -5
7 years later and only 33 songs? Wow.
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Post by busyboy on Sept 27, 2008 3:21:10 GMT -5
LMAO. PM when it leaks?
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Post by Nick on Sept 27, 2008 8:35:42 GMT -5
7 years later and only 33 songs? Wow. Well, who said he was working on songs back in 2002 or 2003? The first time I even heard anything about a new album in the works was like in 2005. In any case, he probably has the first album's track list completed, he can always write/record new songs by the time the 2nd or 3rd album gets released.
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Post by Nick on Sept 28, 2008 9:30:16 GMT -5
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Post by Nick on Oct 6, 2008 18:21:28 GMT -5
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Post by Nick on Oct 6, 2008 18:31:38 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2008 19:06:38 GMT -5
"Pretty Wings" is a gorgeous song, but he first leaked it over a year ago. It says a lot that here we are still with no release date in sight. As for "Bad Habits," it's decent. Nothing I'm going crazy over.
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Post by Nick on Oct 6, 2008 19:19:56 GMT -5
I need to hear the studio versions.
I'm going to see him this Thursday at Radio City, at least there'll be a better sound than a youtube clip.
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Post by Work In Progress on Oct 6, 2008 20:21:28 GMT -5
I'm almost done with Maxwell's queen ass. If he spent the past 8 years making music instead of bending over for random bums on the street, he'd probably have some kind of progress in his career by now. He might as well just COME OUT OF THE CLOSET, get a lil attention, and drop his album. Of course it would flop, because black women are gonna be pissed that he mislead them for all these years. But at least he AND his album would be out.
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Post by hidizzyguy on Oct 7, 2008 13:41:58 GMT -5
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Post by Nick on Oct 7, 2008 17:46:19 GMT -5
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/M....EMPLATE=DEFAULTNEW YORK (AP) -- It's hardly unusual for a singer to drop off the musical map. Declining album sales, drug habits, legal woes and other dramas have landed a multitude of chart-toppers on the "Whatever Happened To ..." list. Yet it is unusual to find someone who voluntarily takes a break from the business - and happily so, with no tabloid fodder behind it. So Maxwell - one of the key voices from R&B's neosoul era, with a sensual voice that made hearts melt and knees buckle - understands why people were so puzzled when he disappeared from the spotlight after releasing his last album, "Now," in 2001. "The world is so caught up in the `American Idol' idealistic sort of tendency in regards to just thinking that this whole thing is what everybody wants, but it doesn't help you make a better record," the platinum-selling singer says. "I just wanted to kind of be a regular person for a minute, and not have to live up to anything from before." Maxwell still doesn't have a new album: His fourth CD, "Black Summers' Night," isn't due out until at least February 2009. But he is returning with a new tour, during which he will play to crowds hungry to hear his voice after his long absence. (Numerous dates are sold out.) "I'm amazed. I just did not expect after all this time that people would even care," says the 35-year-old singer, looking more mature and refined than he did in his bohemian heyday, sporting a conservative dapper look with black shirt, vest and pants. "It so humbling ... that something that was done, that started in 1996, could even have any weight or any consideration in 2008," he says. "It means more to me than I can tell you. It's such a validating experience - it's validation at its highest, you know." But one of the reasons why Maxwell decided to take a break from the business was so that he could find his validation from somewhere other than the record charts. Looking there would have given his ego a boost: From the time the New York native made his debut in 1996, he was a sensation with hits like "Sumthin' Sumthin'," "Fortunate," "Lifetime" and "Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder)." His three studio albums - "Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite," "Embrya" and "Now" - each sold more than 1 million copies. He had a strong fan base, and his poster-boy looks didn't hurt his popularity either, with his then-freeflowing Afro part of his signature look. But personally, Maxwell felt stunted from the constant media glare. "People failed to realize that when you're living such a hyper, super reality of a life, where you're just doing shows and you're on TV and you're talking to this magazine, that doesn't bode well for trying to talk about everyday stuff that hopefully you'll connect with people on," he says. "So a lot of my absence was based on just going out to get life experience, you know. Becoming a guy, becoming a man. I'm 35 years old now. In your 20s you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be." So he grew up. He traveled, he hung out with friends, had a couple of long-term romantic relationships, and just enjoyed life. "He took the time he needed to warm his soul," says singer-songwriter Leon Ware, who wrote "Sumthin' Sumthin'" and worked with Maxwell on the new CD. "The process of growing is very serious to him and he's very analytical." But in an industry where "enjoying life" is often a euphemism for "can't get arrested," many wondered what was truly behind Maxwell's extended break. "Everyone always stereotypes any kind of artist ... that if they go away, something's wrong," says Lisa Ellis, the executive vice president of Sony Music Label Group. "He just decided that he wanted to be a regular person until he felt it was time for him to be Maxwell again ... he found himself. He's more relaxed now. It's very stressful to take on that kind of notoriety and pressure to perform and be perfect when you're young," she adds. "He doesn't feel pressured by what people think." The best example of that may be the way he's decided to reintroduce himself to audiences, by a concert tour instead of through a new album, song or flashy video. "I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music," he says. "I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV screen or the cover of your magazine. I want you to make a baby to something I wrote. I want you to clean your kitchen on Sunday to this, ride in your car, go to work. ... That's my goal."
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Post by Nick on Oct 7, 2008 17:47:07 GMT -5
I'm almost done with Maxwell's queen ass. If he spent the past 8 years making music instead of bending over for random bums on the street, he'd probably have some kind of progress in his career by now. He might as well just COME OUT OF THE CLOSET, get a lil attention, and drop his album. Of course it would flop, because black women are gonna be pissed that he mislead them for all these years. But at least he AND his album would be out. Wait, he's a bottom? :o
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Post by Active Aggressive on Oct 7, 2008 19:31:19 GMT -5
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Post by Nick on Oct 9, 2008 8:03:16 GMT -5
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Post by Active Aggressive on Oct 9, 2008 18:49:31 GMT -5
I am going to punch myself in the face. I FORGOT he was coming and it was last night!! JAZMINE SULLIVAN OPENED AS WELL? OMG! I wanna die. Here's what the Globe had to say!
It is possible that there were other people onstage last night when Maxwell began singing his cover of Kate Bush's ethereal "This Woman's Work." But the moment the R&B singer eased into the first cooing high notes of the fragile ballad, everything in the Opera House that wasn't encompassed in the mists of his aching falsetto sigh vanished in some sort of soul-induced hysterical blindness. The crowd, especially the women, erupted with an explosion of the type and volume of screaming usually reserved for an Oprah Winfrey giveaway show. Discuss COMMENTS (0)
Maxwell, with Jazmine Sullivan At: The Opera House last night
Maxwell earned every one of those shrieks and sighs with a spectacular comeback performance that made clear the only thing he's lost in the six-plus years he's been laying low is his Afro.
Attired in a tux, with bowtie rakishly untied, Maxwell slid, spun, and thrusted his way through the lush ballads and crisp jams that made him a star on the neo-soul scene of the late '90s with a self-assured ease.
(One thing he's clearly been doing during his break: squats.)
The crowd did its part chiming in on the smooth, never-raunchy come-ons of tunes like "Lifetime" and "Sumthin' Sumthin'," careful not to drown out the elegant contours of a voice so clearly cultivated through years of singing along with Marvin Gaye and Prince.
With the crackerjack aid of a hot ten-piece band - including a three-piece horn section that doubled on backing vocals - Maxwell also, almost guiltily, previewed a few songs from his upcoming trilogy of albums, "Black Summer's Night."
He needn't have apologized. New tunes like "Pretty Wings" were of a piece with his sexy back catalog, drawing positive reactions to the crisp backbeat, and to the sentiment of not holding onto someone too tightly. Maxwell also wisely sandwiched each new tune between beloved oldies.
Graciously, with a stunned sincerity, he repeatedly thanked the audience for remembering him and the songs.
The band, of course, made itself known throughout the night, with tasteful flourishes, from the percussionist expertly wafting neck-hair-raising chimes through the sultry "Was My Girl" to the bass player laying down smoky riffs that seemed to slide like quicksilver around the slinky funk of the new tune "Bad Habits."
Guys, if your lady went to the show last night and isn't home yet, you may want to check the floor of the Opera House, where more than one woman was observed dissolving into a puddle of soul-powered bliss.
Opener Jazmine Sullivan got the fires burning with a short set that showcased her irrepressible personality - especially on the woman-scorned opener "Bust Your Windows" - and her seductively husky voice.
LOL @ that's all Jazmine got as a review but whatever, this is a Maxwell thread. I am happy for him!
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Post by hidizzyguy on Oct 9, 2008 20:19:39 GMT -5
Where's that tour schedule?... is he coming to my town?... has he already passed us?... ugh, I need to go now!?!
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