JamBase — Watch The Roots perform "The Fire" and "Game Theory" at last year's installment of the Summer Camp Music Festival. more info

Stereogum — Last Friday, soul legend Mary J. Blige released the tough, searing new album Strength Of A Woman . "Love Yourself," the album's lead single and opening track, is a minor masterpiece with an orchestral boom-bap beat; it's not-bad Kanye West guest ver... more info

AllHipHop — THE ROOTS DRUMMER HAS SPECIAL GUESTS LINED UP FOR THE SERIES more info

Stereogum — Last week, OutKast great Big Boi announced that he's got a new solo album called Boomiverse coming this summer, and he shared two new songs: "Mic Jack," with Maroon 5's Adam Levine, and "Kill Jill," with Killer Mike and Jeezy. Last night, Big Boi was... more info

AllHipHop — BLACK THOUGHT OF THE ROOTS APPEARS ON THE COMEDY SHOW'S FIRST EPISODE more info

JamBase — Watch alt-J get the help of The Roots during their performance on last night’s episode of the ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.’ more info

KEXP Seattle — UK trio alt-J stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in support of their upcoming release, Relaxer. Watch them perform the track “In Cold Blood” with house band The Roots helping out. Relaxer is out June 2nd via Canvasback. alt-J will ... more info

Stereogum — The tricky, implausibly huge UK rockers alt-J are coming out with the new album Relaxer this summer, and they were musical guests on The Tonight Show last night. The trio had some help: With the Roots (or at least ?uestlove and the horn section) back... more info

Stereogum — Amazon is getting into business with the Roots. The streamer is developing an animated children's series tentatively called South Street Sounds and a live-action kids' show with the Grammy-winning hip-hop band. Both projects hail from the Roots' ... more info

Nialler9 — Danger Doom’s The Mouse and The Mask, the 2005 collaborative album between MF Doom and producer Danger Mouse is getting a reissue in a 3-LP deluxe format. I wrote about it 11 years ago. I’m old. The original album was a successful collabora... more info