Paste Magazine — [Above: Picture of the crash via Okayplayer] Much-loved hip-hopsters The Roots had a scary moment last night when their double-decker bus lost control and landed on top of a van while in Paris. ?uestlove described the crash in an e-mail to their labe... more info

NME — The Roots were involved in a serious tour bus crash en route to Paris last night (November 19). more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Matt Ziegler"Just wanna be the first celeb to twit... from an ambulance," reads an entry on the Twitter of one Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson of Philly's the Roots. From the sound of things, ?uestlove and his bandmates are pretty pleased to be a... more info

Guardian Music — The Roots want to be TV stars. ?uestlove, the hip-hop group's leader, has announced that they will trade tour buses for commercial breaks, becoming the house band on an American talk show and leaving large-scale gigging behind.Britain "could miss out... more info

Culture Bully — The Roots “Lovely, Love My Family” (mp3) The Roots: (Official) (MySpace) (Wikipedia) Subscribe to Culture Bully Here Also: (The Roots on the Late Show with David Letterman 2008) (The Roots on The Colbert Report) (“75 Bars: Black’s Reconstruct... more info

VH1 News — The Roots will stop large-scale touring and become the house band when Jimmy Fallon takes over NBC's "Late Night" from Conan O'Brien next year, according to an interview that has been removed from YouTube. more info

My Old Kentucky — We continue our recent rash of occasionally divisive posts on pop/rock/hip-hop stars on children's television shows...The Roots make an appearance on Yo Gabba Gabba.--------------------------------------------------------Official Site | MySpace | Mor... more info

Silent Uproar — It's heavily rumored that The Roots will retire from touring in March 2009 to become Jimmy Fallon's house band. Fallon will take over the late night slot from Conan O’Brien. Blog posts and YouTube videos have been mysteriously disappearing l... more info

Stereogum — As promised, the Roots (aka Jimmy Fallon's new Late Night house band maybe) hit up kids' show Yo Gabba Gabba! recently to spread "Lovely, Love My Family." The song's an upbeat and sunny-day ska thing, and the pastels and dancing creatures make sure ... more info

Buzzgrinder — The rumor mills are abuzz with this news out of left field: This past weekend, a hip hop blog called Nah Right posted a YouTube interview with ?uestlove, a member of hip hop live band supergroup The Roots. And he said that The Roots were retiring fr... more info