Brooklyn Vegan — The Roots Picnic 2009 (more by Tim Griffin) As Pitchfork reported, The Roots Picnic will be happening again this year at Philadelphia's Festival Pier on Penn's Landing, on Saturday, June 5th. ?uestlove announced part of the lineup via a Twitvideo... more info

Starpulse — Run-D.M.C. are set for a reunion at the Roots' annual summer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania festival, if drummer ?uestlove's online hints are to be believed. Rappers Reverend Run and Darryl McDaniels ... more info

ContactMusic — RUN-DMC are set for a reunion at the ROOTS' annual summer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania festival, if drummer UESTLOVE's online hints are to be believed.Rappers Reverend Run... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Holy cow, what a show! ?uestlove announced the spectacular lineup for the Roots Picnic 2010 which is held on June 5th at Penns Landing in Philadelphia. He announced it via tweetvid. The lineup is pretty heavily “afro-beat” influenced. It’s also... more info

The Playlist — Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson will star as a college senior football player in a film called "Things Fall Apart" (certainly no relation to the famed novel of the same name by author Chinua Achebe or The Roots record). The film will be produced through his... more info

Silent Uproar — According to ?uestlove himself, The Roots will produce (and probably perform on) the next John Legend album, Wake Up Sessions, in its entirety. This is great news, but where's How I Got Over? [rapradar.com] more info

Pop Crunch — Have you heard about the controversy brewing over NBC’s Black History Month menu? The already embattled network came under fire again on Thursday after The Roots’ Questlove — now a drummer in the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon band — TwitPic�... more info

Perez Hilton — After Questlove, drummer for The Roots, Tweeted about the questionable menu featured at NBC yesterday in honor of Black History Month, NBC's cook Leslie Calhoun doesn't seem to understand what all the fuss is about! She says: "All I wanted to do was... more info

Perez Hilton — Racially insensitive much?!?! Check out the menu available at NBC today that Questlove, drummer for The Roots and Jimmy Fallon's house band, Tweeted about today. Thoughts?? P.S. CLICK HERE to "follow" Perez on Twitter! more info

411 Mania — The Who, The Specials, Hank Williams, Marvin Gaye, Skynyrd, KISS, Sonic Youth, The Roots and more make up the Lost Tracks... more info