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The Roots - Tv Bosses Rein In The Roots Drummer

4776 days ago
ContactMusicThe Roots drummer Questlove has been forced to notify chat show bosses at Nbc of his song choices in advance after he was recently reprimanded for apparently mocking U S politician Michele Bachmann on air Nbc staff are now vetting all setlists from t... more info

The Roots | Undun

4777 days ago
TopixThe year was 1999, and the Roots were entering a cool-kids club thanks to the release of Things Fall Apart . more info

Roots playing Okayplayer holiday party & Robert Johnson's birthday (but not whatever they want on Fallon anymore)

4777 days ago
Brooklyn VeganThe Roots on the Intrepid (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) The Roots and "special surprise guests" will celebrate the holdays at their 5th Annual Okayplayer Holiday Jam, which goes down at Brooklyn Bowl on Thursday (12/15), followed by the usual Questl... more info

The Roots Discuss Their Next Album

4779 days ago
411 ManiaThey see it as a movie or play... more info

Roots Bring undun To Work

4784 days ago
StereogumThe Roots took a couple of undun tracks to their day job — or night job, depending how you look at it — including the “Redford” medley inspired by Sufjan Stevens’ song of the same name. Check out the videos, which include a somewhat inexpli... more info

Questlove Served Me Fried Chicken

4784 days ago
TimeFamous musicians rarely offer to cook me food, much less serenade me while it’s being served (what’s the hold-up, Paul McCartney?). But Questlove, the significantly Afro-ed drummer for The Roots (real name Amir Thompson), wasn’t just taking pit... more info

The 11 Best Song By The Roots of the 90s

4785 days ago
The Good, The Bad and The UnknownRecently, the Roots got in trouble for playing Fishbone's "Lying Ass Bitch" as the entrance song for Michelle Bachman when she appeared on the Jimmy Fallon show.  Was is it a dick move?  Sure.  Did she deserve it?  Probably not.  Was it kinda fu... more info

What's going on Tuesday?

4785 days ago
Brooklyn VeganG-Side @ a FFF Fest afterparty (* more by Tim Griffin) today in NYC * Gerald Cleaver @ The Stone * Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes * Endless Boogie @ Boo-Hooray * The Roots @ Highline Ballroom * Dawes, Robert... more info

Listen Up: The Roots, Robin Thicke, T-Pain, more

4786 days ago
USA Today MusicAlso new this week: Guitarist Nils Lofgren reflects on his career on 'Old School.' more info

Album review: The Roots' 'undun'

4786 days ago
L.A. Times - Pop & HissThe Roots’ latest studio album is an artful melding of experimental jazz, ’70s R&B, guitar rock flourishes, wall-shattering beats and rhymes that take a scalpel to the existential angst of the hip-hop generation. It’s both bleak and unexpectedl... more info

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