Congratulations to fellow soul artist and Memphian, Valencia Robinson, for being the winner of the 2008 Indie Memphis Best Music Video award Thursday, October 16th at the 2008 MVS / Indie Memphis Film Festival. The video, "Good Things Are Real" (directed by Live From Memphis' Chris Reyes) captured the essence of the song with an intimate focus solely on Robinson & her lyrics. You can visit Valencia on Myspace at http://myspace.com/valenciarobinson to listen to more music from her ep "Soul Searchin".

visual artist +martial artist
+dancer

Visual art is one of the most important vehicles of inheritance. It leaves its mark and passes stories, trends and cultures to rising generations. The meaning never changes, only the way in which it is perceived. With each stroke, one very visual, skateboarding, desert-dwelling artist deposits proof of this life and this era into a time capsule. A self-proclaimed “progressive” artist, Banding (bond-ing) Hendrix, in his own words, is always seeking improvement and growth while aiming "to crystallize internal perfection through art.” Meet Hendrix.

His craft is:
visual art since I was 3.

Neosoulville: What was the inspiration behind the Stone Awards? Stanly Campbell: The stone represents strength, foundation, and purity. We use the number twelve to represent the twelve children of Israel; God commanded Joshua & every man of the tribe to pick up a stone- by that meaning build a strong nation. We have twelve categories widely spread from most outstanding politician to outstanding radio personality and most outstanding TV. personality. We strategically selected the twelve categories based on the community leaders. Ma and Nine Mustard Seed’s purpose with the Stone Awards is to place accountability on the leaders in the city of Memphis.

Mix, mingle and groove this Wednesday, September 17 with the Neosoulville Showcase in "GayoSoul" Lane, kicking off the weekly Downtown Alive Fall Concert Series!

Listen to the soulful sounds of some of Memphis' best up-and-coming performers including singer/songwriter Will Graves, hip-hop violinist Lila, Phillips Award winner Kelly Hurt, soul sensation Tim Terry and the mayor of NeoSoulville herself, Tonya Dyson!

Gayoso Lane is a beautiful private alley located off Peabody Place between Main and Front, behind Majestic Grille. There will be lots of nearby parking and admission is absolutely FREE!!

Earlier this summer we spread the news about Maxwell's new album(s), "Black Summer's Night"...(click title to read) Well...it has just been announced that Maxwell will now be on tour promoting the first part of the album series, "Black", this fall. This will be his first tour appearance following a six year musical sabbatical. So far the tour is scheduled to hit 24 cities starting in Boston on October 8th and ending in Philly on November 21st with a Memphis date slated for November 11th. Joining him on the tour (well, the New York date) is J Records' newest sweetheart- Jazmine Sullivan.