Pitchfork — In director Jason Goldwatch's video for "Dear God 2.0", the Roots' version of the Monsters of Folk track "Dear God", lead MC Black Thought plays a cabdriver who experiences a whole ton of societal ills from the front seat of his car. Monsters of F... more info

Culture Bully — Music video for "Dear God 2.0" by the Roots from the group's 2010 album, "How I Got Over." more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — The Roots are streaming their new album, How I Got Over, in its entirety over at their myspace. It doesn’t come out until tomorrow, so you can decide if it’s worth you hard earned $$. We got early leaks/previews of two of the albums songs, “Dea... more info

Stereogum — On Friday, the Roots posted up a full album stream of their 11th LP, How I Got Over. The LP credits ought to have a special mention of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon’s music booker: many of its Stereogum-friendly collaborators/sample sources (Amber ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — NPR is streaming Alejandro Escovedo's new album, Street Songs of Love (out June 29th). At the band's MySpace page, stream the new Roots album, How I Got Over (out June 21st). BBC News profiles Harper Lee and her novel, To... more info

Pop Candy — Good morning! The weekend flew by way too quickly, didn't it? Highlights from mine included seeing the Mermaid Parade at Coney Island and watching ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — tonight in NYC * Make Music NY * Mike Birbiglia @ UCB * Jim Campilongo @ the Living Room * Frog Eyes @ Sound Fix Records * Ben Perowsky Quartet @ Barbes * The Roots present The Jam @... more info

DrownedInSound — You may have noticed a little less news than usual this week. There is very good reason for this and that's because our news editor was off drinking Viking lager on a press junket in Iceland. Here's a little round-up of the bits of 'news' from the we... more info

Stereogum — Over the past year, the Roots have stretched mightily on Late Night, home of late night TV’s most adventurous music programming. It was hardly a surprise to learn folky folks like MMJ, Joanna Newsom, and (especially) the gals from Dirty Projectors ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Damien Jurado @ Union Hall in 2008 (more by Kyle Dean Reinford) tonight in NYC * Pestilence @ Gramercy * The Lee Boys (late) @ Brooklyn Bowl * John Legend, The Roots (early) @ Brooklyn Bowl * Ted Leo (acoustic)... more info