May 11, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Danger Mouse and The Roots frontman Black Thought have announced the release of a joint album, Cheat Codes, which will be out on August 12 via BMG. They have shared a video for a new single from the album, “No Gold Teeth.” More

Mar 08, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Pitchfork Music Festival has announced their 2022 lineup. The National, Mitski, and The Roots will be headlining. Other acts include Spiritualized, Parquet Courts, Dawn Richard, Indigo De Souza, SPELLLING, Camp Cope, Wiki, Japanese Breakfast, Lucy Dacus, Low, Magdalena Bay, Dry Cleaning, Toro y Moi, and Cate Le Bon, among others. The festival will take place from July 15–17 at Union Park in Chicago. Tickets will go on sale this Friday (March 11) at 10 a.m. CST. More

Oct 19, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

This past weekend, NIVA (National Independent Venue Association) hosted the Save Our Stages Fest, which featured many notable musicians performing in important music venues across the land, businesses that have been shut down since the pandemic took hold in March. More

Jul 07, 2020 By Julian Roberts-Grmela

Black Thought, the lead singer from the band The Roots, has announced the third EP in his Streams of Thought series. Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane and Abel was produced entirely by Sean C (JayZ, Diddy, Pusha T, Joey Badass) and will be out July 31. More

Jun 13, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Christine and the Queens (aka Héloïse Letissier and her amazing dancers) recently shared a new song, “Girlfriend” (which features Dâm-Funk). Last night they also performed the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. They were backed by house band The Roots, as well as Dâm-Funk. More

Oct 30, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The Roots and Bilal recorded “It Ain’t Fair” for the soundtrack to the recent Kathryn Bigelow film Detroit, about the riot in the city in 1967. Now The Roots and Bilal have stopped by NPR’s offices to perform “It Ain’t Fair” as a Tiny Desk Concert. More

Sep 06, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Dave Matthews Band have announced “A Concert for Charlottesville” in their hometown of Charlottesville, VA. It’s billed as “An Evening of Music and Unity” and is in response to the neo-Nazi/alt-right/KKK rally in Charlottesville last month that led to violence and three deaths. More

Jul 28, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

It was a busy week for new tracks, with two pop singers (Jessie Ware and Charli XCX) making a strong showing. A couple of classic rockers made a return, and while Ringo Starr’s new song (featuring Paul McCartney and others) was pretty standard old rocker fare, one of Mick Jagger’s new songs (either “Gotta Get a Grip” or the remix of it by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker) surprisingly almost made our Top 8. More

May 11, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Dirty Projectors released a new self-titled album back in February via Domino. Last night Dave Longstreth and band stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform “Cool Your Heart.” More

Apr 25, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

OutKast’s Big Boi is releasing a new solo album, Boomiverse, this June (exact date TBA) via Epic. He’s already shared its first two singles, “Mic Jack,” which features Adam Levine from Maroon 5, and “Kill Jill,” which features Killer Mike and Jeezy. More

Apr 19, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Alt-J are releasing their third album, Relaxer, on June 2 via Canvasback Music. Previously they shared “3WW,” which featured the vocals of Ellie Rowsell of Wolf Alice, as well as a video for “3WW,” and “In Cold Blood,” which sounded like something that could have easily been found on the band’s Mercury Prize-winning debut album from 2012, An Awesome Wave. More

Dec 01, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band), released their new album, Teens of Denial, back in May on Matador. More

Oct 26, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

1980s hitmaker and Genesis frontman/drummer Phil Collins has been releasing deluxe reissues of all his albums, recently put out a memoir amusingly entitled Not Dead Yet, and also just released a new singles collection fittingly entitled The Singles on Atlantic/Rhino. More

Sep 27, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The Lemon Twigs are a promising new brother duo from Long Island. On October 14th they release their debut album, Do Hollywood, on 4AD. More

Jun 11, 2014 By Laura Studarus

The Roots new video “Never” features a young man haunted by his past. More

May 21, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Occasionally we have to issue a reminder: The Roots are cooler than any of us will ever be. More

Apr 08, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Following Wise Up Ghost, their collaborative album with Elvis Costello, The Roots have revealed that they soon release a new album titled ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin. More

Sep 18, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Given that it was a visit on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon that inspired their collaboration in the first place, last night on the show Elvis Costello and The Roots performed the track “Walk Us Uptown” from their newly released joint album Wise Up Ghost. More

Sep 09, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Next week sees the release of a number of noteworthy albums on Sept. 17, all of which are now streaming in full online. More

Jul 22, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Elvis Costello & the Roots’ collaborative album Wise Up Ghost will see the light of day September 17 via Blue Note Records. More

May 29, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

As previoiusly reported The Roots and Elvis Costello recently teamed up in the recording studio for a collaborative album. More

Feb 27, 2013 By Mike Hileary

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, the perennial bandleader of The Roots, has announced that he will release his very own memoir this coming summer. More

Jan 23, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

The Roots have announced the upcoming release of new collaborative album with Elvis Costello. More

Oct 16, 2012 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

On Saturday October 13, the Austin City Limits Music Festival continued in Austin, TX. We sent photographer Robert Redfield down to capture the action. Check out his photos of Jack White, Father John Misty, Zola Jesus, Andrew Bird, Gotye, Caveman, Gardens & Villa, The Roots and Band of Skulls here. More

Jul 02, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Hip-hop/soul collective and late night house band The Roots have announced that they will release a new album entitled &TYSYC. More

Jun 01, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

In an effort to help the Red Hot Organization and the (RED) initiative in their fight against AIDS in Africa, tUnE-yArDs’ Merrill Garbus has joined forces with The Roots’ Questlove to be a part of an upcoming tribute compilation entitled (RED) Hot + Fela, honoring the work of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. More

Apr 20, 2012 By Cody Ray Shafer

The Roots’ ?uestlove has announced a new business venture with Michelin Star Chef Graham Elliot. ?uest Loves Food will essentially be a food truck catering special events and serving up quirky dishes, such as the origami wrapped fried chicken, called Love’s Drumsticks. More

Mar 02, 2012 By Laura Studarus

The week of the Bruce Springsteen continues on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. The Boss himself has already been in the house, bringing with him a few new songs. Now Elvis Costello has stepped up to the challenge of covering “Brilliant Disguise” and “Fire.” More

Feb 03, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

The 11th annual Sasquatch Music Festival has announced its official lineup of artists, including Jack White, Bon Iver, Tenacious D, The Shins, St. Vincent, Feist, The Roots, Beirut, and Beck. More

Dec 07, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

When The Roots ever found time to record a new album in between serving as Jimmy Fallon’s house band is anyone’s guess, but last night Questlove and the rest of the crew were given the opportunity to play a few song selections from the band’s latest LP undun. More

Nov 28, 2011 By Laura Studarus

The Roots’ new album undun is a concept album about a man called Redford Stephens—a name inspired by a short instrumental piece on Sufjan Stevens’ Michigan album. More

Oct 07, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Today The Roots announced their first ever concept album. More

Aug 16, 2011 By Wendy Redfern

Check out photos from Day Two of the Outside Lands Festival, held in the historic Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA. The gallery includes photos of Muse, Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys, The Roots, and STRFKR. More

Aug 02, 2011 By Margot Cooper Gruen

Last night tUnE-yArDs played on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Joining in on w h o k i l l track “Gangsta” was members of Fallon’s house band The Roots. More

Feb 17, 2011 By Laura Studarus

As a Grammy winner and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Booker T. Jones has a pretty remarkable Rolodex. That was made clear by the announcement of new album, The Road From Memphis (out May 10 via ANTI-Records). More

Jan 13, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Our Year-End Issue features an in-depth interview and exclusive images of The Roots’ ?uestlove. We have exclusive behind-the-scenes video from the shoot. More

Jun 24, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Hanging with Jimmy Fallon on Late Night and releasing their own album isn’t enough for The Roots. Now they’re teaming with R&B musician John Legend for Wake Up!, a collection of 11 gospel, rock, and R&B songs from the 1960s and ‘70s. More

Jun 21, 2010 By Hong Le

Last Friday The Roots performed their new single “Dear God 2.0” with Jim James of My Morning Jacket on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. They also released the music video for the single. Check out the videos.

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Jun 18, 2010 By Laura Studarus

As previously reported, The Roots’ new ablum How I Got Over features collaborations with the ladies of Dirty Projectors, Jim James (Monsters of Folk/My Morning Jacket), and our current cover artist Joanna Newsom. Now you can hear the album in full on The Roots’ MySpace. More

May 21, 2010 By Michele Yamamoto

The ladies of Dirty Projectors were featured in ?uestlove’s in-the-studio video working on the Roots’ upcoming album. We have the video and the album’s tracklist. More

Apr 23, 2010 By Laura Studarus

The Roots’ (aka coolest late night show house band ever) new album How I Got Over will feature a few familiar faces—Joanna Newsom and Monsters of Folk‘s Jim James. More