We All Want Someone To Shout For — The Roots just recently announced that their new album How I Got Over, is dropping on June 22nd. The lead single from the album, Dear God 2.0, surfaced online Saturday night and it has exploded since then.The Roots Black Thought raps over the backgro... more info

Rollo & Grady — The Roots – How I Got Over // Release Date – June 22nd Tracklisting: 01 Walk Alone [ft. Truck North, P.O.R.N., Dice Raw, Mercedes Martinez] 02 Dear God 2.0 (ft. Jim James – MOF) 03 Radio Daze [ft. Blu, P.O.R.N., Dice Raw, Mercedes Martinez]... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets are on sale at noon for Pavement's Brooklyn show at Williamsurg Waterfront. Tickets go on sale at noon for the Grizzly Bear/Walkmen/Gang Gang Dance show at Governors Island. Tickets go on sale at noon for the Jim James (actually... more info

Pitchfork — As that headline suggests, technically impressive hip-hop band the Roots have enlisted members of technically impressive indie rock band Dirty Projectors to add some final touches to their forthcoming album, How I Got Over. Or at least that's what an... more info

Allmusic Blog — Jim James will join Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore for the summer-long Appalachian Voices Tour. James previously produced Sollee and Moore’s Dear Companion, a collaborative album whose proceeds helped raise awareness of mountaintop mining’s d... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets go on AmEx presale at noon for the Jim James (actually Yim Yames, Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore) show at Music Hall of Williamsburg. My Morning Jacket has upcoming shows too. Tickets are on sale at noon for... more info

Pitchfork — The eleventh album from the Roots, How I Got Over, is due out June 22 on Def Jam after several delays. Drummer ?uestlove reported the info on his Twitter and also linked to the LP cover, which you can see above. As previously reported, the album feat... more info

Pitchfork — Earlier this year, My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James (or, as he prefers to be known these days, Yim Yames) produced Dear Companion, a collaborative album from fellow Kentucky singer-songwriters Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore. The album raised ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore - Something, Somewhere, Sometime (MP3) Jim James w/ Monsters of Folk in L.A. 2009 (more by Graeme Flegenheimer) Yim Yames [Jim James], singer-songwriter Daniel Martin Moore and genre-bending cellist and voca... more info

Pitchfork — Rolling Stone reports that the Roots and John Legend have teamed up to record an album of covers of 60s and 70s socially conscious soul songs. The project was originally inspired by an attempt at an Arcade Fire cover, but that song didn't end up maki... more info