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The Roots on Yo Gabba Gabba

5900 days ago

Culture Bully — The Roots “Lovely, Love My Family” (mp3) The Roots: (Official) (MySpace) (Wikipedia) Subscribe to Culture Bully Here Also: (The Roots on the Late Show with David Letterman 2008) (The Roots on The Colbert Report) (“75 Bars: Black’s Reconstruct... more info

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The Roots To Stop Touring, Become Jimmy Fallon's House Band On 'Late Night'?

5900 days ago

VH1 News — The Roots will stop large-scale touring and become the house band when Jimmy Fallon takes over NBC's "Late Night" from Conan O'Brien next year, according to an interview that has been removed from YouTube. more info

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The Roots on Yo Gabba Gabba

5900 days ago

My Old Kentucky — We continue our recent rash of occasionally divisive posts on pop/rock/hip-hop stars on children's television shows...The Roots make an appearance on Yo Gabba Gabba.--------------------------------------------------------Official Site | MySpace | Mor... more info

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The Roots to be Jimmy Fallon's House Band?

5900 days ago

Silent Uproar — It's heavily rumored that The Roots will retire from touring in March 2009 to become Jimmy Fallon's house band. Fallon will take over the late night slot from Conan OÃ‚Â’Brien. Blog posts and YouTube videos have been mysteriously disappearing l... more info

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The Roots Do Yo Gabba Gabba!

5900 days ago

Stereogum — As promised, the Roots (aka Jimmy Fallon's new Late Night house band maybe) hit up kids' show Yo Gabba Gabba! recently to spread "Lovely, Love My Family." The song's an upbeat and sunny-day ska thing, and the pastels and dancing creatures make sure ... more info

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The Roots To Become Jimmy Fallon’s House Band?!?!

5900 days ago

Buzzgrinder — The rumor mills are abuzz with this news out of left field: This past weekend, a hip hop blog called Nah Right posted a YouTube interview with ?uestlove, a member of hip hop live band supergroup The Roots. And he said that The Roots were retiring fr... more info

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The Roots To Stop Touring, Become Jimmy Fallon's House Band On 'Late Night'?

5901 days ago

MTV.com News — Drummer/leader ?uestlove says group will always perform live, but might abandon large-scale touring.By Jocelyn Vena, with additional reporting by Jem Aswad The Roots Photo: Evan Agostini/ Getty Images Over the weekend, a video interview po... more info

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The Roots of Fallon?

5901 days ago

Chorus.fm — There appears to be a rumor (http://stereogum.com/archives/the-roots-to-be-jimmy-fallons-house-band_035931.html) that *The Roots* (http://www.theroots.com/) might end up being Jimmy Fallon's house band when he takes over for Conan O'Brien. Yikes. more info

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The Chum Bucket: Roots Backing Jimmy Fallon + More

5901 days ago

Spinner.com — Filed under: The Chum BucketSpinner.com: The Roots might retire from touring, apparently so ?uestlove can laugh obnoxiously (a la Kevin Eubanks) at all of Jimmy Fallon's late-night hilarity. [Gawker]Prince may be against homosexuality, but his John ... more info

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News Ticker: The Roots, The Fray, Nine Inch Nails and Kanye West

5901 days ago

Rolling Stone — Photo: Getty The Roots have announced they’ll be breaking from their regular touring schedule for a stint as Jimmy Fallon’s house band when the comedian’s late night show debuts next March. Two years after hitting it big with a track on Grey�... more info

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