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The Roots, Lee Konitz lead the 2011 Playboy Jazz Festival

5272 days ago

L.A. Times - Entertainment — In one of the festival's boldest choices, the Philadelphia hip-hop band the Roots will team with trumpeter Terence Blanchard as one of the weekend's co-headliners. In one of the festival's boldest choices, the Philadelphia hip-hop band the Roots will... more info

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Prince - Prince Donates $1.5 Million To New York Organisations

5274 days ago

ContactMusic — Soul superstar PRINCE has handed out $1.5 million (1 million) to charitable causes during his string of concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden.The Purple Rain icon wrapped up his residency at the fabled venue on Monday (07Feb11), with stars inc... more info

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TV on the Radio announce new album, Radio City show

5275 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — TV on The Radio at The Roots Picnic 2009 (more by Tim Griffin) TV On The Radio will celebrate their forthcoming follow-up to Dear Science, the new LP entitled Nine Types of Light (due this Spring), in a most majestic... more info

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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN UNLEASHED THE FUCKING FURY ON JIMMY FALLON

5275 days ago

Metalsucks — Last month Vince gave you the heads up that Mr. Yngwie Malmsteen himself was gonna sit in with The Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (The Roots serve as Fallon’s house band); well, that momentous occasion has now occurred, and our friends at Me... more info

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AHH Stray News: Rappers Do Brunch, Collipark's Back, USDA Drops

5278 days ago

AllHipHop — (AllHipHop News) A variety of rap stars, R&B singers and artists will gather in Los Angeles during ASCAP's Rhythm and Soul's 2nd Annual Grammy Brunch. ASCAP will celebrate the Grammy nods for their artists, which includes Bruno Mars, The Roots, Jerma... more info

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(Mixtape) Money Making Jam Boys

5280 days ago

Impose Magazine — Most world famous rap crews have plenty of side jobs to go around supporting the lead MC, but in the case of the The Roots, Black Thought's precision as a rhyme animal leaves little chances of securing much stage time as the hype man. The most a Root... more info

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monday morning updates

5283 days ago

Totally Fuzzy — Zer0_II said... Strange Ranger serves up an amazing avant-prog rock and electronic pop gem from Russia... Edward Artemiev - Warm Earth (1985 - V0 & FLAC) http://digitalmeltd0wn.blogspot.com roy rocket said... Hiya Fuzzies! Late 70's pub rock, punk a... more info

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Kanye West - Kanye Is Top Tweeter

5288 days ago

ContactMusic — KANYE WEST has topped a new list of music tweeters, beating THE ROOTS UESTLOVE.Patrick Carney of The Black Keys and Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig also make the top five on website RollingStone.com. Diddy, The Streets' Mike Skinner and 50 Cent make th... more info

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Jimmy Fallon to host the Roots' 7th Jam Session

5289 days ago

Topix — In this Feb. 19, 2010 file photo, the Hip hop band The Roots... NEW YORK - Hip-hop band the Roots have given Jimmy Fallon a boost as the house band on his late-night TV show. more info

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