The Roots

Consequence of Sound — In celebration of Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit Hamilton Mixtape. more info

Stereogum — Last week, Lin-Manuel Miranda released The Hamilton Mixtape, on which famous rap and pop stars took on the songs from Miranda’s hit Broadway musical Hamilton and made those songs their own. Billboard reports that the compilation is on track to debu... more info

Consequence of Sound — See Usher & The Roots, Kings of Leon, Flume, Solange, and more. more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — (Wu-Tang Clan at Roots Picnic NYC) After a great first day at the inaugural Roots Picnic NYC, we returned for an even larger day 2, with some big time headliners (with The Roots as the backing band) that ended things on a huge note. The shared finale... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — (D’Angelo at Roots Picnic NYC) This year The Roots brought out their Phill-based Roots Picnic festival over to New York for the inaugural edition of Roots Picnic NYC. Of course The Roots headlined, but on day 1 of the festival they only played a fe... more info

PopSugar UK — Back in 2012, Jimmy Fallon and The Roots sang "Call Me Maybe" with Carly Rae Jepsen and it was the greatest thing ever. Months later, though, it got even better. Fallon and the band were joined by Mariah Carey on what was then Late Night With Jimmy ... more info

Consequence of Sound — New version of the indie rock hit features members of The Roots on horns and organ. more info

Stereogum — In Teens Of Denial, Car Seat Headrest made one of the best indie rock albums of the year. And when you make one of the best indie rock albums of the year, you get to do things like playing on The Tonight Show with members of the Roots backing you up.... more info

AllHipHop — THE ROOTS DRUMMER PLAYS "UNDERRATED" more info

PopSugar UK — We love Jimmy Fallon's classroom instruments series, but honestly, we never anticipated Metallica would agree to it. Sure, Adele did it. So did Idina Menzel and The Lonely Island, but Metallica? They're too hardcore for that . . . right? Nope! T... more info