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March 11, 2008
WAKE UP!
DJ Kstarr drops a mix tape intended for hip-hop sleepers
Music
February 2, 1999
A Bulgar Display
DJ Kstarr drops a mix tape intended for hip-hop sleepers
Music
March 2, 1999
Love Jones
DJ Kstarr drops a mix tape intended for hip-hop sleepers
Music
March 16, 1999
Roots of Everything
Yazoo's Time Capsule Project
Music
April 11, 2000
Rising to the Top
Laps and Marco Polo in the Hip Hop Pool
Music
December 26, 2000
Urban Organics
Laps and Marco Polo in the Hip Hop Pool
Music
April 9, 2002
Time Will Reveal
Laps and Marco Polo in the Hip Hop Pool
Music
April 13, 2004
All The World
Not Spyro Gyra, just a hip-hop band throwing a world party
Music
April 20, 2004
Ska, Jam, Rock, and Reggae Stars Try to Drop Pressure
Not Spyro Gyra, just a hip-hop band throwing a world party
Blogs
June 2, 2009
Anne Hathaway Happily Drowns in a Sea of Love on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
It's almost too awkward to even watch--people who don't know how to play guitar playing guitar usually are--but there's something really endearing and also sort of funny about this clip of (Obies presenter!) Anne Hathaway playing "Sea of Love" on last night's Jimmy Fallon. Conan's debut is the new ... More >>
Music
July 24, 2007
Evil Empire Strikes Back
A rap-nostalgia bonanza feels like a rock show and sounds like a resurrection
Voice Choices
February 19, 2008
PUT MY ROOTS DOWN
Philly’s finest get the spotlight at the Apollo
Voice Choices
October 22, 2008
AND STILL THEY RISE
The RootsÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ next regeneration awaits
Voice Choices
April 1, 2009
Dave Matthews Band+the Roots
The RootsÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ next regeneration awaits
Music
November 7, 2006
Pulling Dylan Out by the Roots
An otherwise sleepy tribute gets ambushed by "Machine Gun"
Music
August 29, 2006
Blood at the Roots
A new label and newfound rage bear strange fruit for hip-hop's everymen
Music
July 13, 2004
Off Balance
Illadelphians lose their cultural momentum, maybe even tipping in the wrong direction
Music
December 31, 2002
Nicebreaker
Illadelphians lose their cultural momentum, maybe even tipping in the wrong direction
Blogs
May 13, 2009
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 >>
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May 15, 2009
Asher Roth Sticks the Roots with Their First Ever Lousy Fallon Performance
Shades of the Stevie Wonder/Jonas Brothers Grammys debacle here--C'MON STEVIE! SHOW 'EM WHAT YOU GOT STEVIE!, etc. Back when Fallon's show started, we fretted about the eventual reality of the Roots--live rap royalty if there ever was such a thing--being forced to play hypemen for the Soulja Boys ... More >>
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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 >>
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May 20, 2009
This Week in Voice Blogs
At Sound of the City, our film critic J. Hoberman reports from the Cannes premiere of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: "A sort of World War II spaghetti western, even more drenched in film references than blood." Also: Behind the scenes as Method Man and Redman snub The Roots! At La Daily ... More >>
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June 8, 2009
Live: The Second Annual Roots Picnic, Featuring Public Enemy, Asher Roth, and a Whole Lot of Excited 16-Year-Olds
Yeah, it was Philly, but so what--SOTC special correspondent Christopher R. Weingarten reports. viaThe Roots, mid-jam The Roots, Public Enemy, Asher Roth, Kid Cudi, TV on the Radio, and More Festival Pier, Philadelphia June 6, 2009 The second annual Roots Picnic, an eclectic fete held on the Illa ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 10, 2009
CARIBBEAN COOL
Trinidad dances into the night
Blogs
June 25, 2009
Tonight! Who's the Better Scion? Ziggy Marley or Dinosaur Jr.?
Adult Swim's team of terrorists and aliens have organized a summer-long series of free shows at Santos' Party House. Tonight, New Pornographers frontman A.C. Newman joins Cheeseburger, the Woggles, and, apparently, "a hockey-mask-wearing burlesque review." [ED: Shouldn't that be "revue"? Or will s ... More >>
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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]
Voice Choices
October 6, 2009
Common+the Roots
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
November 11, 2009
And Now, A Lovely Tuesday Night Out At Greenhouse, APT, And Highline Ballroom, Featuring The Roots, Of Course
Somebody tell Puja how to do this. Greenhouse is one of those places that make us normal folks nervous. While some revel in the exclusivity of red-roped clubs, the thought of waiting in a felt-carpeted line doesn't exactly thrill me--over-glammed Jersey girls, statuesque Chelsea boys, and men with ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
December 17, 2009
"Jimmy, What Up Baby?" Raekwon Performs on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
"Good looking out man, word up"--always nice to thank your hosts. No surprise the Roots and Raekwon are a winning combination, especially on "Catalina," and even more especially with Black Thought guesting. I dunno, what's left to say? Best year for rap on television that's not BET or MTV ever? So ... More >>
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 >>
Blogs
April 5, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
April 22, 2010
Download "Come Back Like Spring," A New Track From Cody ChesnuTT (!!!!)
Many springs have passed since The Headphone Masterpiece, hip-hop soul upstart Cody ChesnuTT's 2002 double-CD debut, which raised quite a stir back in the day, alongside his surprise hit with the Roots, "The Seed (2.0)." Dude has unfortunately laid pretty low since ("Afrobama" excepted.) And ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2010
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.
Blogs
May 24, 2010
The Roots Return, With A Little Help From the Monsters of Folk: "Dear God 2.0"
For a band with such a wonderful sense of the moment, and such a savvy instinct for artistic fellow travelers--be they Jay-Z, the Dirty Projectors, or Ringo Starr--the Roots sure do make crushingly boring singles. This one, which goes in over Monsters of Folk's "Dear God"--perhaps the most randoml ... More >>
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June 21, 2010
The Roots' How I Got Over Is Out Tomorrow; A Most Likely Pretty Epic "Roots Jam" Is Set For Highline Ballroom Tonight
Lest you forget, the best house band in Late Night by orders of magnitude (I mean, did you see this?) put out records, too. And so How I Got Over, the first Roots release since they took the Jimmy Fallon job -- "an album of doubts, parables and pep talks," sez the Times -- is out tomorrow (stream ... More >>
Blogs
July 12, 2010
Live: The Roots Regale The Teeming Prospect Park Masses With -- And Why Not -- "Sweet Child O' Mine"
Black Thought greets his (overflowing) public. Photos by Nicole Ankowski, more below.The Roots and friends Prospect Park Bandshell Sunday, July 11 Welcome to another preposterously well-attended Celebrate Brooklyn! fete, David Byrne-ian in its excess of humanity, thousands upon thousa ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 15, 2010
John Legend & the Roots
Black Thought greets his (overflowing) public. Photos by Nicole Ankowski, more below.The Roots and friends Prospect Park Bandshell Sunday, July 11 Welcome to another preposterously well-attended Celebrate Brooklyn! fete, David Byrne-ian in its excess of humanity, thousands upon thousa ... More >>
Music
February 22, 2005
Music
Black Thought greets his (overflowing) public. Photos by Nicole Ankowski, more below.The Roots and friends Prospect Park Bandshell Sunday, July 11 Welcome to another preposterously well-attended Celebrate Brooklyn! fete, David Byrne-ian in its excess of humanity, thousands upon thousa ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 22, 2010
RING IN THE ROOTS
New Year’s concerts don’t get any better
Blogs
January 5, 2011
Here's Das Racist's "All Tan Everything," Earnestly Explained, Line By Line
Perhaps you are familiar with Rap Genius, a useful interactive site that aims to "discover the meaning of rap lyrics" by painstakingly explaining every single line of various popular tunes -- at press time Lil Wayne's "Hoes & Ladies" is exactly 13 percent explained, with Rick Ross' "Made Men" ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Voice Choices
March 30, 2011
TROPIC THUNDER
Blues alchemist comes to BK Bowl
Blogs
May 5, 2011
Live: The Roots Play To The Crowd At Astoria's New Outdoor Venue
The Roots Studio Square Wednesday, May 4 Better Than: Whatever '90s cover band was playing elsewhere in Astoria. An hour into the Roots' Wednesday night show, located at the Astoria beer garden Studio Square, Black Thought finally got the crowd to sing along. The trouble was, the song the a ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2011
Ten Steps To Shabazz Palaces: Tracing Ishmael Butler's Path Between Digable Planets And The Present
Back in the early '90s, Ishmael Butler came to rap prominence as Butterfly in the group Digable Planets. These days, he's taken on the moniker Palaceer Lazaro and records as the lead voice in Sub Pop's first hip-hop signing, Shabazz Palaces. It's a metamorphosis that Butler has left deliberat ... More >>
Blogs
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 congr ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 16, 2011
The Roots
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 congr ... More >>
Blogs
December 19, 2011
Live: VH1 Brings Out The Divas At The Hammerstein Ballroom
via VH1VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul Hammerstein Ballroom Sunday, December 18 Better than: Whatever Ryan Seacrest is going to cook up for VH1 Soul. Last night's VH1 Divas taping existed both as a performance and self-contained, 24-hours-out advertising opportunity for its broadcast. (Tonight at ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 21, 2011
?uestlove
via VH1VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul Hammerstein Ballroom Sunday, December 18 Better than: Whatever Ryan Seacrest is going to cook up for VH1 Soul. Last night's VH1 Divas taping existed both as a performance and self-contained, 24-hours-out advertising opportunity for its broadcast. (Tonight at ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Download: Homeboy Sandman's Interstellar Voyage "The Miracle"
Homeboy Sandman is a spiraling autumn of light from Queens, a rapper whose flow at once sounds like a metaphysical brain drain and a physically fit slice of verbal gymnastics. With a career built on battle competitions, hosting nights at the Nuyorican Poets Café and some guerilla F train fly ... More >>
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