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April 23, 2012
Live: Questlove Puts The World On Shuffle At BAM
Shuffle Culture Howard Gilman Opera House Friday, April 20 Better than: Celebrating "4/20." Questlove's "Shuffle Culture" event—at which ten or so musical acts performed a handful of songs each, but never more than one at a time, as if the set list itself were on shuffle—was at once st ... More >>
Music
April 18, 2012
Questlove's Quest
The always-working bandleader puts the world on shuffle at BAM
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April 18, 2012
This Week In The Voice: The '90s Will Never Die; Questlove's Constant Questioning
In this week's Voice, out now: I look at the slow stranglehold of '90s retro and wonder about postmodern pop shows that don't require their stars to be present, a la Tupac's holographic appearance at Coachella over the weekend; and Brad Farberman talks to Questlove about Shuffle Culture, his musical ... More >>
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April 18, 2012
Q&A: Questlove On Artistic Freedom, "Shuffle Culture," And Spreading The Springsteen Gospel
In a recent tweet responding to a follower's assertion that he was a celebrity, the drummer and head Root Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson demurred, claiming he was merely "a personality." The follower had a point, though; according to a website devoted to Quest's blogs about meeting famous people, for in ... More >>
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April 18, 2012
This Week in The Voice: Mitt Romney, American Parasite
This week in the Voice, out today: Pete Kotz examines Mitt Romney's brand of capitalism, and finds that it represents everything you hate about America's economic system: "His specialty was flipping companies -- or what he often calls 'creative destruction.' It's the age-old theory that the new must ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 21, 2012
N.E.R.D. ALERT
Wonk out at the EMP conference
Blogs
March 14, 2012
Stephen Colbert Is A Bit Miffed That His Pop Conference Paper Got Rejected
Next weekend, various stripes of music nerds (critics, academics, people who just like to think a lot) will descend on New York for the EMP Pop Conference, an annual mind-meld of pro and amateur musicologists that's taking place in our fair city for the first time. The conference, sponsored by the S ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 22, 2012
'Robert Johnson at 100'
Next weekend, various stripes of music nerds (critics, academics, people who just like to think a lot) will descend on New York for the EMP Pop Conference, an annual mind-meld of pro and amateur musicologists that's taking place in our fair city for the first time. The conference, sponsored by the S ... More >>
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January 27, 2012
D'Angelo Offers Two (Awesome) Peeks At His Long-In-The-Works Third Album
It is hard to not root for D'Angelo, the long-dormant R&B genius who, in the 12-year (!) period between his classic album Voodoo and now, has had run-ins with the law and mean-spirited internet giggles directed his way. But in December, Roots drummer and longtime collaborator ?uestlove told Pitchfor ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 21, 2011
?uestlove
It is hard to not root for D'Angelo, the long-dormant R&B genius who, in the 12-year (!) period between his classic album Voodoo and now, has had run-ins with the law and mean-spirited internet giggles directed his way. But in December, Roots drummer and longtime collaborator ?uestlove told Pitchfor ... More >>
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December 5, 2011
Amy Winehouse's Top Ten Hip-Hop Collaborations
Rappers loved Amy Winehouse. The British warbler might not have collaborated with rap chaps to the extent that Mary J Blige has, but when she passed away earlier this year she did so leaving behind a discernible trail of hip-hop goodies. And the songs suggest there was a genuine bond and shar ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
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 >>
Voice Choices
June 15, 2011
'Blue Note Jazz Festival: Paid in Full 25th Anniversary with the Roots+Rakim'
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 >>
Voice Choices
May 4, 2011
'Marcus Miller's Concert for Japanese Tsunami Relief'
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 >>
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March 17, 2011
Q&A: Neko Case On The Charity Drawing For Her 1967 Mercury Cougar, Her Poor Twitter Etiquette, And The Beastmaster
"My hugest goal was to get a Retweet from Questlove, because he has all these followers and he's so great. And he totally gave me one! I was like, 'This is a Twitter victory!'" Act now and all this (well, the car at least) could be yoursThe cover of Neko Case's 2009 album, Middle Cyclone, fe ... More >>
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March 4, 2011
Live: The Roots, The Flaming Lips, Michael Stipe, And Patti Smith Dominate Carnegie Hall's Tibet House Benefit
Patti Smith, leading the charge as always. Pic by Tracy Ketcher.21st-Annual Tibet House U.S. Benefit Concert Starring The Flaming Lips, the Roots, Taj Mahal, Michael Stipe, etc. Carnegie Hall Thursday, March 3 Better Than: "Auld Lang Syne" "Beauty is power -- violence is weak," we are told ... More >>
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January 21, 2011
Week In Review: Confirming Kanye's Inevitable Victory
So we put out Pazz & Jop this week. We're pretty happy with it. As are Kanye West and Cee Lo Green, hopefully. Lots of essays and lists and numbers to absorb there, so spend some time if you haven't yet, and if you have, please enjoy our bonus post-mortem analysis: some context for Kanye's re ... More >>
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January 18, 2011
Live: Questlove Rings In Martin Luther King Day At Cielo
No reason to be nervous. Pics by Puja, more below.Questlove Cielo Sunday, January 16 Better Than: That time Justin Bieber played the drums with Questlove on Jimmy Fallon. Around 8 p.m. on Sunday night, Questlove Tweeted that he was off to spin the "hardest DJ set of m'life." The gig was Gia ... More >>
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January 4, 2011
Top 25 Headlines Not As Weird As "Dave Sitek Joins Jane's Addiction"
Good luck learning all the chord changes in "Jane Says," dudeSo TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek has joined Jane's Addiction, in some unspecified bassist/songwriter/possibly-non-touring-member capacity, which is super bizarre when you first hear about it, but is, upon reflection, not the stranges ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 25, 2010
Al Green
Good luck learning all the chord changes in "Jane Says," dudeSo TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek has joined Jane's Addiction, in some unspecified bassist/songwriter/possibly-non-touring-member capacity, which is super bizarre when you first hear about it, but is, upon reflection, not the stranges ... More >>
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July 23, 2010
Please Welcome the Best Website Ever, "Questlove's Celebrity Stories," Starring a Hilarious Canibus Dis and the Time He Met Will Smith
Well, this was entirely unexpected. Behold: a massive compendium of every celebrity ubiquitous Roots drummer and all around hero Questlove has ever met, complete with the story of how it happened and what they were like. Highlights include his summary dismissal of the '90s mixtape rap star Ca ... More >>
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June 25, 2010
Michael Jackson Died A Year Ago Today
Yep. June 25, 2009. A genuinely shocking and oddly unifying moment, when a couple decades of profound decline and ugliness were washed away instantly, leaving everyone with the powerful urge to hear "Billie Jean" again as soon as possible. (Or "Beat It." For me it was "Beat It.") Around here ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 19, 2010
DANCE IT ON DOWN
Happy birthday, Soul!
Voice Choices
January 12, 2010
A VIBE CULLED ?UEST
?uestlove dedicates this warehouse party to MLK
Blogs
January 6, 2010
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 >>
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January 5, 2010
Japandroids Played Fallon
People who have been fans of this band for years may never have heard either of these two guys sing into the microphone as much (or, uh, as tunefully) as they do here--it's pretty much the exact opposite of whatever bad PA yelling they do out at Brooklyn or the Mercury Lounge, etc. Fallon looks im ... More >>
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January 4, 2010
Japandroids Are at Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Right Now; Viewing Party at HiFi Tonight
Illegal and indecipherable soundcheck video above via Questlove. Word is the song will be "Wet Hair"--fine, although if you had a shot at late night TV, wouldn't you take that shot and play "Young Hearts Spark Fire" with it? The duo will be over at HiFi tonight watching themselves on TV, should yo ... More >>
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December 11, 2009
Week in Review: Bros4Life
Not even the 15th worst record this decade. Have a good weekend!In the week our F2K crew quantitatively decided that though Nickleback and Gym Class Heroes are bad, William Hung and Hinder were a whole lot worse, we continued to count down the worst songs of the '00s. That Santana song keepin ... More >>
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November 23, 2009
Hey, So the Roots Played With the Dirty Projectors Last Night
"Stillness Is the Move" and and a solo-drenched "No Intention," to be exact, featuring Questlove and couple other members of the Roots crew. It was pandemonium--pretty much as rowdy as the Bowery Ballroom gets. Plus as the man says, David Byrne on "Knotty Pine" for the final encore, which is not a ... More >>
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November 3, 2009
Oh, Hi Jay-Z, How's That Phillies Hex Going?
Badly! Photo courtesy of Questlove, who took it upon himself to watch the game with Mr. Carter at Citizen's Bank Park last night, and even captured the sullen, impotent moment above--Jay throwing up three trembling fingers in the direction of his woeful team, who couldn't quite make it to fou ... More >>
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October 15, 2009
DJ AM and James Chance, Together at Last: Downtown Calling
We are against hagiography as a rule, but let's take a moment to list just a few members of the cast of Shan Nicolson's late '70s New York doc Downtown Calling, narrated by Debbie Harry and opening at the Austin Film Festival, next weekend: DJ AM, Wild Style's Charlie Ahearn, TV on the Radio' ... More >>
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September 3, 2009
A Modest Proposal: Let's Help Roxanne Shante Get An Actual Degree
That's Questlove for you, lighting a candle rather than cursing the darkness now descended upon the feel-good story of the summer. If everyone who blogged/Tweeted that story in the first place chipped in $10, she'd be Dr. Shante in no time.
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August 11, 2009
An Apology, of Sorts, for Antagonizing Questlove With Regards to the Still-Not-Happening School Daze Sequel
While browsing Twitter yesterday morning, we came across a Questlove dispatch that seemed to suggest he was taking time out of his busy schedule to do some acting and/or composing for the sequel to Spike Lee's 1988 film School Daze. Here is the Tweet in full:
Blogs
August 4, 2009
?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]
Blogs
July 30, 2009
The Wall Street Journal Gets a Kick Out of Jimmy Fallon Getting a Kick Out of ?uestlove's WSJ Portrait
Ha. The Wall Street Journal, a paper not always known for its sense of humor, apparently enjoyed Jimmy Fallon making fun of ?uestlove's dot drawing in the paper (internally known as a "hedcut," they tell us) on his show the other night so much they made a video out of the clip. And the drawing is ... More >>
Blogs
May 20, 2009
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 >>
Music
April 29, 2009
Booker T. Jones, Man at Work
The indomitable MG finally embraces his inner surly rock star
Music
February 25, 2009
The Roots Take Manhattan
Meet the new kings of late-night, God (and Jimmy Fallon) willing
Voice Choices
October 22, 2008
AND STILL THEY RISE
The RootsÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ next regeneration awaits
Music
April 29, 2008
The Roots Bury the Leader
Rising Down's nuanced dystopia threatens to overwhelm the guy at its center
Blogs
March 19, 2008
The Roots' Rising Down: Bangers, With a Price
Rising Down's nuanced dystopia threatens to overwhelm the guy at its center
Voice Choices
February 19, 2008
PUT MY ROOTS DOWN
Philly’s finest get the spotlight at the Apollo
Music
August 29, 2006
Blood at the Roots
A new label and newfound rage bear strange fruit for hip-hop's everymen
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May 19, 2006
Live: The Roots Forget to Call Jay-Z
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August 7, 2001
Vagina Monologues
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December 14, 1999
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June 22, 1999
Letters
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February 2, 1999
A Bulgar Display
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