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When historians look back on 2009, beyond the wars and the recessions, they'll see that it was a good year for music.

Grammy nominees: Beyonce is the Fiercest of them all. R&B singer Beyonce leads the field of Grammy contenders with 10 nominations, followed by teen country sensation Taylor Swift with eight.

LL Cool J is paying tribute the best way he knows how. The 41-year-old rapper-actor will kick off "The Grammy Nominations Concert Live! - Countdown to Music's Biggest Night" on Wednesday night by rapping to a medley of the past year's hits from artists like Lady Gaga and Kings of Leon.

After ten years without releasing an LP, Sade Adu has finally completed her sixth studio album, Soldier of Love .

Mirk & The New Familiars Gearing Up to go on South by Southwest Tour in 2010 In support of their debut album "LOVE" New Album Set for Summer 2010 Release Check out Video "Forbidden" from the LOVE album featuring R&B superstar Maxwell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee2awO8OT9A www.newfamiliarmusic.com November 11, 2009, New York, N.Y. a ' Joshua ...

Sons Of Maxwell singer-songwriter Dave Carroll has become an internet sensation after posting his United Breaks Guitars videos on YouTube.

He simply seduced an audience. The lights went down, the music kicked in, and then he took the stage.

R&B superstar Maxwell, aka the sexy ambassador of soul, returned and wowed the Memphis audience Tuesday night at the Fed ExForum with his "BLACKsummers' Night" Tour.

Maxwell returns to New Orleans on Wed., Oct. 21. From time to time, R&B stars disappear not because of normal career fluctuations, but for more mysterious, dramatic reasons.

ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE/JULY 28 Singer Maxwell, who performed on the "Today" show last July, brings his concert tour to Sleep Train Pavilion in Concord Oct.

R&B singers have so many options, it's at once understandable and frustrating how they get locked into one category and spend a lifetime there.

Maxwell knows his audience. And they know him, as they proved by singing and sighing at nearly every note during his show Monday night at American Airlines Center.

The biggest band, the biggest tour, the biggest stadium. U2 brings its long-awaited 360 Tour to Cowboys Stadium , 925 N. Collins St., Arlington.

North Little Rocka s Verizon Arena provided the perfect backdrop for a exemplary evening of music as Maxwella s Blacksummernighta s Tour captivated the A-State. A crowd of 5,639 took in a magnificent display of energy from three Grammy award winning artists and reciprocated by providing the stars with intense and invariable adulation for the next ...

Wearing black sunglasses, a tailored black suit, crisp white shirt and tie, he strutted onstage as cool as a cucumber to "DanceWitMe." But within mere seconds, Maxwell was turning up the heat - running up and down stairs on the set, sliding across the floor, and sweating as he described later "like a pig." For the nearly sold-out crowd at Philips ...

Maxwell enjoyed all that came with being one of the top stars of the '90s new-soul movement - until he decided to walk away.

Maxwell 's BLACKsummers'night tour hits the Verizon Center tonight, and if you're attending, you're almost guaranteed to hear all of your favorite Maxwell hits: "Fortunate" and "Til We Become the Sun" from the old albums; "Bad Habits" and "Pretty Wings" from his comeback disc.A In fact, you may even get an extended version ofA "Pretty Wings!" And ...

RICHMOND -- Wednesday afternoon. Six hours till showtime. Maxwell is lounging in the cheap seats of the Richmond Coliseum, watching his road crew assemble the stage as if it were giant, real-life game of Tetris.

Just a year ago, the resurgent superstar would have been able to attend a concert here -- even sit in this very seat -- without garnering a squeal, a smile or a second glance. But when the lights go down later in the night, a packed house will greet the singer with grown-woman shrieks usually reserved for the likes of Al Green.

"Prodigy" isn't a word to be used lightly. But in the case of neo-soul ambassador Maxwell, it fits.

One thought kept running through my head as I watched neo-soul singer Maxwell struggle through the launch of his North American tour on Friday night at the Air Canada Centre Theatre.