Live Daily — The third-annual Roots Picnic--featuring headliner Vampire Weekend [ tickets ]--is set for June 5 at Philadelphia's Penn's Landing pier, according to the band's Okayplayer website. Roots drummer Questlove also hinted in a Twitter video that the suriv... more info
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