Brooklyn Vegan — The Roots on the Intrepid (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) The Roots and "special surprise guests" will celebrate the holdays at their 5th Annual Okayplayer Holiday Jam, which goes down at Brooklyn Bowl on Thursday (12/15), followed by the usual Questl... more info

411 Mania — They see it as a movie or play... more info

Stereogum — The Roots took a couple of undun tracks to their day job — or night job, depending how you look at it — including the “Redford” medley inspired by Sufjan Stevens’ song of the same name. Check out the videos, which include a somewhat inexpli... more info

Time — Famous musicians rarely offer to cook me food, much less serenade me while it’s being served (what’s the hold-up, Paul McCartney?). But Questlove, the significantly Afro-ed drummer for The Roots (real name Amir Thompson), wasn’t just taking pit... more info

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — Recently, the Roots got in trouble for playing Fishbone's "Lying Ass Bitch" as the entrance song for Michelle Bachman when she appeared on the Jimmy Fallon show.  Was is it a dick move?  Sure.  Did she deserve it?  Probably not.  Was it kinda fu... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — G-Side @ a FFF Fest afterparty (* more by Tim Griffin) today in NYC * Gerald Cleaver @ The Stone * Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes * Endless Boogie @ Boo-Hooray * The Roots @ Highline Ballroom * Dawes, Robert... more info

USA Today Music — Also new this week: Guitarist Nils Lofgren reflects on his career on 'Old School.' more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The Roots’ latest studio album is an artful melding of experimental jazz, ’70s R&B, guitar rock flourishes, wall-shattering beats and rhymes that take a scalpel to the existential angst of the hip-hop generation. It’s both bleak and unexpectedl... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The year's last major music release week brings two albums that will surely make many year-end lists, The Black Keys' El Camino and The Roots' undun. Lucero's Mi Secreto De Amor and Tender Forever's Where Are We From EP... more info

Chicago Tribune — 4 stars (out of 4) more info