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Nine Poppy Picks From ?uestlove's Non-Rap Productions

?uestlove's stock is at an all-time high. His stint as house band-leader on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon was recently complimented by a profile in The New Yorker; you might even peep his face on subway billboards around the city as he clocks up his Sonos endorsement money. Tonight he'll be spinning ... More >>

'Bowl Train' w/ Biz Markie

Three Reasons Why Old Records Are Bigger Than Ever

Deep catalog diving

Fishbone

Fiona Apple's The Idler Wheel: How Does It Feel To Feel?

"I just wanna feel everything," Fiona Apple declares on the chorus for "Every Single Night," the first track on her fourth album, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (Epic). She stretches out the word "feel" out into si ... More >>

Santigold's Gold Standard

Santi White's genre-bending adventures continue on her second album

Q&A: The Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli On Getting The Band Back Together, The Art Of Comedy, And Bad At-Bat Music

Tonight at the Bowery Ballroom, the Afghan Whigs—the Cincinnati torchbearers for damaged soul music—return to the stage after 13 years on hiatus, and if their performances on last night's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon are any indication, tonight's sold-out show will be full of the band's ... More >>

Under the Toque: Top Chef Spin-Off, Fried Chicken Face-Off

A new Top Chef spin-off, Life After Top Chef, will follow the lives of four former Top Chef contestants: Jen Carroll, Richard Blais, Fabio Viviani, and Spike Mendelsohn. [Zagat] In case you're following the David Chang-Questlove fried-chicken battle: the Momofuku chef and Roots drummer have set a d ... More >>

Underwhelmed And Overstimulated, Part The Sixth: Was 2011 The Best Year For Women In Music Ever?

​Sound of the City's year-end roundtable, with contributions from Tom Ewing, Eric Harvey, Maura Johnston, Nick Murray, and Katherine St. Asaph, continues. Follow along here. Hi again everyone, Sure, there was lots of great music put out by women this year—my Pazz and Jop top tens will ... More >>

?uestlove

The Roots' Walk-On Music For Michele Bachmann Was Ha-Ha Funny, But...

Monday night the Republican Presidential candidate and frequent source/target of Photoshop japery Michele Bachmann appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon in an effort to promote both her autobiography and her appearance at last night's Presidential debate. As a rebuke to the Minnesota congresswoma ... More >>

The Roots

Jean-Georges Gives Jimmy Fallon Crabs

Jean-Georges Vongerichten dropped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night. The segment was pretty uneventful: JG plugged his new cookbook, Home Cooking with Jean-Georges; he and Fallon made crab toast. But we're suckers for a raunchy headline. Happy Friday. For more dining news, head to Fork ... More >>

NO, JIMMY, THANK YOU!

Fallon loves being gracious

Run For The Hills: Odd Future Are Playing Highline Ballroom In May

Swag?​ The much-blogged-about outfit Odd Future, a.k.a. OFWGKTA, its bringing its live show to the East Coast this May, as announced today via official Tumblr. The collective's NYC stop will be at Highline Ballroom on Friday, May 13 (appropriate); tickets went on sale earlier today and are a ... More >>

Top Five Odd Future Songs They Couldn't Possibly Perform On Jimmy Fallon

Tame by comparison, believe it or not. Odd Future, a/k/a OFWGKTA, a/k/a Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, are a teenage L.A. rap collective who've been raising a ruckus for a few months now. Tonight they hit Santos Party House for their second-ever NYC performance, but tomorrow's the big one: Th ... More >>

Donald Trump Denies 2012 Presidential Run, But Rants About China and OPEC Anyway

Donald Trump, real estate mogul and Celebrity Apprentice boss, went on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon yesterday and played coy, as usual, about a 2012 presidential run. He then ran through the cast of the new Apprentice season which features Mark McGrath, Lil' John, Latoya Jackson and Star Jones. Bu ... More >>

Jonathan Richman Is Playing The Bell House Tonight, In The Likely Event You'll Want To Hear Something Soothing

​Tonight is going to be unpleasant politically. Watching the results in real time on television/the Internet is going to do nothing for your health, your soul, your complexion, your ever-diminishing sense of childlike wonder. I hereby recommend you go out instead, to the Bell House, where Jona ... More >>

Superchunk Are Playing a Free In-Store All-Acoustic Set at Other Music on Sunday

Not the Love Language. Photo by Jason Arthurs. ​"Time and transition is a wave that'll put you over," Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan avers on "My Gap Feels Weird," one of eleven sparkling new songs on Majesty Shredding, the band's first LP in nine years. Who could doubt him? It's Superchunk ... More >>

Anti-Charisma Carries The Day For The "Play Guitar With Pavement" Finalists

​Well, this is terribly disappointing. The race to determine who'll play guitar with Pavement on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon later this month has been narrowed down to five finalists, and our own Stelios Phili, who poured milk all over his hands and found a blue tarp and formed a band that on ... More >>

Pavement Just Invited You To Play Guitar With Them On Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

​You remember Pavement, right? That band whose Central Park reunion shows you bought tickets for a solid year ago? Who then pranced around the country for most of 2010 while you patiently waited and ruefully read fawning concert recaps from other cities and very possibly lost said tickets? (Se ... More >>

We Made It, Sad People of New Jersey! Watch Titus Andronicus Perform on Fallon

It's been a real good week for the indie zeitgeist, that weird feeling of we made it!, even if we don't necessarily know who "we" are. The Arcade Fire sold out Madison Square Garden twice. The Suburbs has a shot at being the #1 record in the country next week. And Titus Andronicus, ragged New Jers ... More >>

The Top Ten Rap Supergroups That Never Happened

Over the weekend, the rapper Sean Price took to Twitter to propose a collaboration album between his own Brooklyn-based Boot Camp Clik hip-hop crew and Staten Island's mighty Wu-Tang Clan. The idea has been received rapturously. But then again, theoretical hip-hop supergroups usually are. Rap's hi ... More >>

Here Is A World-Record-Seizing Rap Song Containing 30 References to Potatoes, Which You Can Hear Live Tonight At Joe's Pub

​"I pioneered a subgenre of rap called 'potato rhyming.' My name's ToTs, and I rap about potatoes." And so the legend begins. Michael "ToTs" Heagerty has officially beaten all you slackers to setting the world record for "Most Potato References in a Rap Song." The song is called "Crispy," the ... More >>

Dept of Humiliating Corrections: Washington Post Forced to Acknowledge That Giovanni Ribisi Does Not In Fact Play Bass in the Roots

Ladies and Gentleman, from the same people who brought you the infamous "September 11th was a joke" Public Enemy correction, it's...a new member of the Roots! Specifically, famous actor Giovanni Ribisi on bass! Or not at all! Let's parse.

Watch Liquid Liquid Perform "Cavern" on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

Liquid Liquid's first ever performance on national television--so, thirty years in the making, pretty much. Way looser and more slithery than your average evening on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon which, given that the Roots tend to be involved, is saying something. Can you spot the rock critic in t ... More >>

The National Debut High Violet's "Terrible Love" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

That's one way to announce your return--with two secret shows tonight and tomorrow in Brooklyn, a new album due in May and, last night, a live premiere of that record's first track, "Terrible Love," on Jimmy Fallon's TV show. The song is as paradoxically melancholy and galvanizing as every Nationa ... More >>

FREAKS AND GEEKS

Emerging comedians awarded for their ability to make us laugh

Hear the Great New Ted Leo Song: "Mighty Sparrow"

​Right here: Ted Leo, "Mighty Sparrow." One of the best on his newest, The Brutalist Bricks (out March 9th on Matador), in our humble opinion. He's on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon the Monday of the week his record comes out, and you can apply to be in the audience if you like, though there are ... More >>

Perhaps You Are a Singer-Songwriter, and Would Like to Be Part of the New Reality TV Show The Scene...L.E.S.?

​That the Lower East Side is a place totally inimical to struggling artists of any kind is probably the least of the ironies of The Scene...L.E.S., the new in-the-works reality TV show from Jimmy Lloyd Productions. As per the above Craigslist ad:

Clipse on Fallon: "Popular Demand," Featuring Black Thought

So if you're keeping track, there was yesterday's impromptu "Grindin'" remix in a Late Night rehearsal closet, the official-yet-web-only "Grindin'" in-studio (Jimmy calls it an "oldie but a goodie"), and now the official, broadcast version of the Clipse doing "Popular Demand" on Late Night With Ji ... More >>

Ha, Clipse's "Grindin'", the Roots Remix

Almost definitely not the song the Clipse are going to perform on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon tonight, but here's a web-only type rehearsal take of Pusha and Mal jumping on the song anyway, as assisted by the Roots. Worth it for Questlove and Captain Kirk's falsetto chorus punctuation alone. Love ... More >>

Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz Do a Pretty Good Julian Casablancas Impression, It Turns Out (And Casablancas Does a Great "I Wish It Was Christmas Today")

Watching the live taping of the Jawbox episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon the other week, we were reminded of the utter weirdness of the late night TV variety show format. On TV, because Letterman et al have done it for so long and so well, it's come to seem normal, but make no mistake: thes ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Jawbox, Pill, Holiday Music Roundup, Best Books of 2009, Avatar, and More

Who had this photo in their office pool a decade ago? Jawbox on Fallon. Photo by Anything Photographic.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla ventures up to 30 Rock to have lunch with Jawbox on the eve of the D.C. punk band's one-off reunion on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, while Jayson G ... More >>

Lunch With Jawbox

Jimmy Fallon boasts a bizarre but wonderful D.C. punk reunion

Duly Quoted: 50 Cent Is the "Nicest Dude in Hip Hop," According to Questlove

And thus, ten thousand Okayplayer readers are forced to reevaluate the basic premise of their lives. The occasion? Curtis Jackson bringing his abysmal new single "Baby By Me" to Jimmy Fallon's TV show, where he was stoically backed by the Roots. And indeed, onstage with rap's best live band, one m ... More >>

JIMMY GROWS UP

Fallon's team gets some face time

?uestlove Will Not Be Joining the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Conga Line

So yeah, the upshot here is that 3 minutes or so into this 7th Floor West clip you get to see ?uestlove of the Roots execute maybe the most reluctant limbo of all time, with a humiliating assist from a big inflatable beach ball. Also, Black Thought in Swimmies. [Late Night with Jimmy Fallon]

News Roundup: Perez Hilton Sues, Kanye West/Spike Jonze, Jim James, My Morning Jacket

--Perez Hilton is suing Black Eyed Peas manager Polo Molina for battery and "infliction of emotional distress," after, you know, he got punched for calling Will.I.Am something homophobic. Hilton's lawyer said in a statement: "Whether you love Perez or hate him, he is entitled to his freedom of speec ... More >>

News Roundup: Beastie Boys, The Roots, Jay Bennett, Lil Wayne

--After proving they-still-got-it at Bonnaroo less than two weeks ago, the Beastie Boys announced details about their new disc, Hot Sauce Committee Part 1. The album is due September 15, and its seventeen tracks include the Nas collaboration "Too Many Rappers" (which they performed together at the f ... More >>

Gary Vee v. Jimmy Fallon--Battle of the Annoying TV Personalities

Wine Tweeter Gary Vaynerchuk appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night, where he had Fallon take the $8 or $80 challenge (Fallon chose the $80 wine), pontificated on how Americans drink white wine way too cold (we wholeheartedly agree), and played "corkers," a version of the quarters dri ... More >>

Jimmy Fallon and Mos Def Pander to Aging Rap Fans

More proof that Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is targeted straight at rap nerds: Mos Def and Jimmy Fallon spontaneously covering Run-DMC's "It's Tricky." Also: points to Mos Def for doing the classic shutting-down-the-white-guy-rapping thing after like nine seconds. Below, Mos and the Roots do "Ca ... More >>

Why Redman and Method Man Performed on Jimmy Fallon Without the Roots

On Monday night, Method Man and Redman took their Blackout! 2 promotional tour to Jimmy Fallon, an evening that promised to join the rapidly growing pantheon of incredible rap performances on Fallon's show--the Roots backing veterans that went as far back or farther in the game than they did, guy ... More >>

The Roots Lonely Island An Excellent Censor: Behold "I'm on a Boat" Live

In the aftermath of the actually quite excellent "Motherlover," the Lonely Planet boys hit another milestone last night: Their first ever live performance, on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, backed by, yes, the Roots, in nautical finery for "I'm on a Boat." The true star of this clip is whoever handl ... More >>

Booker T. Jones, Man at Work

The indomitable MG finally embraces his inner surly rock star

This Week's Voice: Booker T. Jones, Akron/Family, Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor, The Girlfriend Experience, Jim Jarmusch, and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla visits Booker T. Jones at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, where the indomitable MG finally embraces his inner surly rock star. Aidan Levy in praise of Marc Ribot, style-morphing guitarist icon extraordinaire. Jesse Jarnow on the otherworldly ... More >>

The Roots Take Manhattan

Meet the new kings of late-night, God (and Jimmy Fallon) willing