The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — Recently, 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

Brooklyn Vegan — G-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

USA Today Music — Also new this week: Guitarist Nils Lofgren reflects on his career on 'Old School.' more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The 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

LargeHeartedBoy — The year's last major music release week brings two albums that will surely make many year-end lists, The Black Keys' El Camino and The Roots' undun. Lucero's Mi Secreto De Amor and Tender Forever's Where Are We From EP... more info

Chicago Tribune — 4 stars (out of 4) more info

Guardian Music — (Def Jam)The house band on Jimmy Fallon's US talk show, the Roots recently accompanied a Republican politician's guest spot with the Fishbone song, Lyin' Ass Bitch. That kind of mischief isn't among the ingredients of the Philiadelphia collective's ... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — When The Roots' Questlove first started getting serious backlash for calling Michele Bachmann a "lyin' ass bitch" via her walk on music, he was faced with a few different choices: dig his heels in, possibly putting his job in jeopardy, or issue the k... more info

411 Mania — This week's MBML has news on Sufjan Stevens and The Roots, Broadcast, and Lana Del Rey. Also, read an exclusive interview with Leah Siegel from Firehorse, chatting about all sorts of things. And of course, I've got new recommended listening picks. ... more info

Stereogum — The Roots have been building toward undun for a little over a month now, supplying weekly videos for undun tracks as well as sharing three parts of the album’s four-part “Redford” suite with us. Now, the Roots entire concept record has hit the ... more info