MTV.com News — Calls Grammy duet with Roberta Flack 'amazing'; talks about next LP, BlackSUMMER'Snight. By Akshay Bhansali, with reporting by Sway Calloway Maxwell at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards Photo: Kevork Djansezian/ Getty Images For Maxwell, the 2... more info

Guardian Music — As Sundance is rocked by a music biopic of Joan Jett this week – the latest in a slew of high-profile films – might this be an appropriate time to make my request?While most British eyes cast towards this week's Sundance film festival h... more info

All About Jazz — KNITTING FACTORY RECORDS TO RELEASE FIRST SET OF FELA KUTI REISSUES 2/16 Fela Kuti Knitting Factory Records has announced that the first set of Fela Kuti reissues will be released on February 16, 2010. Since the reissues are being made available... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Sharon Jones @ Brooklyn Bowl on December 30th (more by Kyle Dean Reinford) The release date for Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings' new album, I Learned the Hard Way, has been moved up almost a month, from the original... more info

MTV.com News — Super-producer tells Mixtape Daily he wants to make the 'best records' for his friends after their jail time.By Shaheem Reid Swizz Beatz Photo: Full Surface Behind the Beats: Swizz Beatz, Part 2 Swizz Beatz's commitments are even more h... more info

Altsounds — Knitting Factory Records is very excited to announce that the first set of Fela reissues will be released on February 16, 2010. Since the reissues are being made available in chronological order, these six CDs, that contain nine albums total, represe... more info

Guardian Music — Spectacular players and survivors to boot, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo have been going since 1968. But we've had to wait to see them make the trip to EuropeLast September Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou played to a packed house at the Barbican Centre in L... more info

Rollo & Grady — The Souljazz Orchestra, is Afro-jazz at it’s best. Drawing on the rough, raw grooves of the ‘60s and ‘70s and effortlessly fusing soul, jazz, Afro and Latin rhythms within their music, they have moved forward the blueprint of Fela, Fani... more info

Rollo & Grady — We’ve been listening to a good bit of African music in the new year; Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, Ghana and Nigeria Special compilations and Fela Kuti with Ginger Baker are all incredible records. I’ve previously mentioned The Peelies and Fu... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Ocote Soul Sounds (Martin from Antibalas, left) Mondo Mundo Festival, put on by the booking agency of the same name, is happening at Hiro Ballrom Saturday, January 9th. Ocote Soul Sounds, the world jazz/soul-funk group with Adrian Quesada of Grupo... more info