Soul goddess Erykah Badu is back! While you’re awaiting her much anticipated album, New Amerykah, to drop in a couple of weeks, you have a chance to see her perform live at a secret location in Brooklyn, NY. You and a guest may be lucky enough to check out this special, invite only, performance hosted by VH1 Soul on Tuesday, February 19th. Click here for more details and rules on how to enter. Also, make sure to keep your eyes peeled for Erykah’s lovely face gracing our upcoming Art Issue. Don’t sleep on it!

Crate diggers, vinyl aficionados, and anyone with a passion for quality music with soul, should check out the Wax Poetics & PowerHouse Book Launch Party hosted by jazz-funk fusion legends Larry & Fonce Mizell. Celebrated as true revolutionaries of the 1970s era jazz, funk, and R&B scene, the Mizell Brothers are also well known figures in the Hip Hop community, and their records remain some of the most widely sampled in contemporary music circles. The brothers started their careers as members of Motown’s production and writing crew, The Corporation, where they produced a number of classic 70’s hits, including Jackson Five’s ‘I Want You Back’ and ‘ABC’. After founding their company, Sky High Production, they went on to produce albums for Blue Note with Donald Byrd, Bobbi Humphrey (Blacks & Blues, 1973) and Johnny Hammond Smith.

The event on Wednesday will feature the launch of two collaborative book projects, Wax Poetics Anthology Vol.1 and Wax Poetics Cover Story: Album Cover Art, which will surely become a must-have resource for all true Hip Hop, jazz, funk, soul, reggae, disco, and Latin music lovers. The book launch will be accompanied by the record release of the Mizell Brothers’ 1966 gem, “Baby I Want You”, now digitally remastered and available on WaxPoetics Records. Not to be missed!

RSVP Kiera Peppers kiera@waxpoetics.com

Wax Poetics & PowerHouse Book Launch Party w/ DJ Moni Wednesday, Feb 13th 6-9 p.m. @ The powerHouse Arena. 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY.