Friday, February 26, 2010 was a big day for Maxwell and his fans. The day started with the announcement that Jill Scott will be joining Maxwell for a  20-city U.S. arena tour kicking off on May 21st in Cleveland with additional dates to be announced through June.

This tour is being produced nationally by Live Nation. Tickets go on sale in select cities at LiveNation.com http://www.livenation.com/artist/maxwell-tickets or http://www.livenation.com/artist/jill-scott-tickets
Details on dates, venues and on-sale information will be announced shortly for tour stops in 20 U.S. cities including: Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Seattle, Oakland, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Miami, Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York.

To find out more updates on Maxwell, music and upcoming projects please visit http://www.musze.com, http://www.myspace.com/maxwell, or http://www.twitter.com/_maxwell_.

Also on Friday, Maxwell was in attendance at the 41st NAACP Image Awards. Anthony Anderson and Toni Braxton were the presenters for the ‘Outstanding Male Artist’ category.

Anthony’s reaction when he opened the envelope and said Maxwell’s name was priceless and did not hide the fact of who he was pulling for.

As Maxwell made his way to the stage to graciously accept his award, he received a standing ovation from the crowd and as he delivered his acceptance speech, the camera caught cutaway shots of several females in the audience who could not hide what many viewers at home were probably doing, as well.

WATCH HERE: Maxwell’s NAACP Image Award acceptance speech

Photo credit: REUTERS/Danny Moloshok

Win tickets to attend the GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! next Wednesday and tickets to see Maxwell perform at Club Nokia.

PRIZES: There are a total of 3 prize winners. Eligible prize winners will receive the prize detailed below:

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Maxwell’s official site, musze.com, has been updated with many new features. Check it out and make sure to subscribe to the newsletter! http://musze.com

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Maxwell talks at Press Conference in New York City, May 28th

April 28, 2009 was a great day for Maxwell fans. With rumored release dates posted on the internet year after year since his self imposed hiatus, Maxwell finally gave the fans what they had been anxiously anticipating - an official release date for the first CD of his long awaited trilogy BLACKsummers’night.  

Although, the release date of July 7, 2009 had been announced as official, some still did not want to get their hopes dashed, yet again. The press conference made it truly official. As they waited for the man of the hour (excuse me, YEAR!), invited guests were treated to several tracks from the CD. When Maxwell appeared, he answered five questions from the press and mingled with the guests afterwards. Several of those in attendance at the press conference/release party gave the CD high marks and informed us that we will not be disappointed. (We had no worries)

In addition to the press conference, Maxwell’s official site http://www.musze.com was re-launched with the video premiere of the first single, Pretty Wings And within hours, the first dates were announced for the 2009 tour:

Milwaukee (Sat-June 20) / Seattle (Tue-June 23) / Vancouver (Wed-June 24)
Las Vegas (Fri-June 26) / Los Angeles-BET Awards (Sun-June 28)
Phoenix (Mon-June 29) / Austin (Wed-July 1) / San Antonio (Thu-July 2)
New Orleans (Sat-July 4) / Nashville (Sun-July 12) / Louisville (Mon-July 13)
Columbus (Wed-July 15) / Cleveland (Thu-July 16) / Pittsburgh (Sat-July 18)
Buffalo (Sun-July 19) / Albany (Tue-July 21) / Atlantic City (Fri-July 24)
Foxwoods (Sat-July 25) / Norfolk (Mon-July 27) / Savannah (Tue-July 28)
Tampa (Thu-July 30) / Miami (Sat-August 1) / Orlando (Sun-August 2)

Maxwell wasn’t joking when he told us some months back that he was going to be “in our face so much…”. He continued by saying that we were going to get tired of seeing him. So, not true, Max. Keep it coming!

Maxwell and Chairman and CEO of BET. Debra Lee

Maxwell attended the BET Upfronts last night in New York City. (Upfronts are when TV networks present their lineup to the press and advertisers.)

Don’t forget this Tuesday, April 28th:

- check out the premiere of ‘Pretty Wings’  on BET’s 106 & Park

- ‘BSN’ press conference at Sony Studios in New York City

- relaunch of musze.com

Go to Maxwell’s myspace page to check out a special segment called ‘Meet the Band’ - brief video interviews with members of Maxwell’s band.

http://maxwellmusze.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/meet-the-band/#comment-252

Also, check out the radio interview that Maxwell did with Chris Coleman on 98.7 FM.

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a special edition of The Autumn Soul Series

Hosted by Columbia recording artist MAXWELL (”Blacksummer’s Night)!!

:::MAXWELL WILL BE IN THE HOUSE PARTYING WITH US:::

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During his sold out concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on October 9th, Maxwell stopped the intro to ‘Til the Cops Come Knockin’ to say, “There are not enough panties on my stage.”  Immediately - as if pre-planned - a pair of panties which was wrapped around a blue rose, flew on the stage courtesy of Diana aka HISChynaMami from the MAXWELLfanforum.

Although, not staged, it was pre-planned by the group members who attended the New York show as part of their ‘MISSION ‘M’ POSSIBLE task.

The panties were signed by the members.

Read about it at BILLBOARD.COM http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003873081

See the footage on YOUTUBE  RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, NYC

And register to the forum on MAXWELLFANFORUM.COM to read about how this mission came to be and the recaps of before, during and after the show.

Reminder: Set those DVRs and check out Maxwell today (Friday 9/26) on BET’s 106 & Park!!!

Check out the video: http://www.bet.com/OnTV/BETShows/106andpark

Also, check out Maxwell talking about his long hiatus:

http://www.bet.com/onblast/?chan=4&id=2230&itype=e