CD: Maxwell

With his towering Afro and silk shirts unbuttoned to the navel, Maxwell was the natural pinup of the '90s neo-soul movement. But like his closest rival, D'Angelo, the 36-year-old Brooklyn native has spent most of the current decade lost in the wilderness, taking only tentative steps back into the spotlight last year with a handful of live shows. This week, the freshly shorn R&B star officially resurfaces with his long-in-the-making fourth studio album, "BLACKsummers' Night," the first in a proposed trilogy of releases. Despite... [read full story]                    

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