The Roots and Elvis Costello are two tireless acts who are so in love with collaborating. These days you see Elvis join in jams on his Spectacle interview/performance show. Questo et al do it all the time at their Late... CONTINUE READING ELVIS COSTELLO JAMS WITH THE ROOTS, COLBERT»
Posted on November 23, 2009 in Video (4 comments)
Tags: Deastro | Elvis Costello | Jimmy Fallon | Stephen Colbert | The Roots
Your local triple-A format radio station's favorite of this year's supergroup explosion stopped by 30 Rock last night. That's M. Ward, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Yim Yames, singing "Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.)," the minor key harp and soul track... CONTINUE READING MONSTERS OF FOLK DO "DEAR GOD (SINCERELY M.O.F.)" WITH THE ROOTS ON FALLON»
Posted on November 5, 2009 in Video (10 comments)
Tags: Jimmy Fallon | Monsters Of Folk | The Roots
These days Michael McDonald has been very Wu-Tang in his indie scene appropriation, working with Holy Ghost!, covering Grizzly Bear, owning fantastic facial hair, etc. But last night Jimmy Fallon made it easy for the honey-piped icon to get a... CONTINUE READING YACHT ROCK HEROES JOIN THE ROOTS ON FALLON»
Posted on October 6, 2009 in Video (9 comments)
Tags: Christopher Cross | Jimmy Fallon | Michael McDonald | The Roots | Yacht Rock
You may remember earlier this year when Brandon put together a little show at a little bookstore in SoHo for which Dirty Projectors performed the little feat of composing a six-song suite for Björk in a week, after recording their... CONTINUE READING DIRTY PROJECTORS BRING MOUNT WITTENBERG ORCA TO FALLON»
Posted on September 29, 2009 in MP3, Tour Dates, Video (20 comments)
Tags: Dirty Projectors | Jimmy Fallon | Questlove | The Roots | Thom Yorke
Last fall Diesel celebrated its 30th birthday in Brooklyn with a concert by N.E.R.D., Franz Ferdinand, T.I., and a very pregnant M.I.A. So expectations for last night's Diesel:U:Music event and its promise of very special guests were high (like planes)... CONTINUE READING DIESEL:U:MUSIC FEAT. CLIPSE, KANYE, LYKKE LI, ROOTS, PASSION PIT @ WEBSTER HALL, NYC 7/30/09»
Posted on July 31, 2009 in Photo, Video (8 comments)
Tags: Clipse | Cobra Starship | Esau Mwamwaya | Heartsrevolution | Kanye West | Lykke Li | Passion Pit | Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt | The Flaming Lips | The Noisettes | The Roots | Theophilus London
Last night Jarvis Cocker gave a spirited and loose-limbed performance of his Further Complications title track. He clearly enjoyed himself (and his magic hands). To further complicate things, though, there was a certain Roots drummer on site who was less... CONTINUE READING JARVIS COCKER VISITS JIMMY FALLON, ESCAPES WRATH OF QUESTO»
Posted on July 31, 2009 in Video (31 comments)
Tags: Crystal Castles | Jarvis Cocker | Jimmy Fallon | Pulp | Questlove | The Roots
Yes it's Fallon's show in name, but really we should be calling this thing Late Night With The Roots And Jimmy Fallon's Shrewdly Assembled Writing Staff. Whatever it is GE is paying Questo and Black Thought to anchor Late Night,... Late Night With Jimmy Fallon)'">CONTINUE READING NEW ROOTS - "HOW I GOT OVER" (LIVE ON LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON)»
Posted on June 25, 2009 in Video (15 comments)
Tags: The Roots
Jimmy Fallon's Saved By The Bell reunion campaign got a boost when Mark-Paul Gosselaar did the show last night as Zack Morris, and covered Zack Attack classic "Friends Forever" with Questo and crew. Watch at Videogum. ... CONTINUE READING ZACK MORRIS PLAYS WITH THE ROOTS»
Posted on June 9, 2009 (0 comments)
Tags: Jimmy Fallon | The Roots | Zack Morris
They performed it on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, so the One-Trick Pony track has something conceptual to its joyful, horn-lined lilt. Even if Fallon's jokes don't always work, his sound people generally do, and it's not surprising the Roots... CONTINUE READING PAUL SIMON DOES "LATE IN THE EVENING" WITH THE ROOTS»
Posted on June 3, 2009 in Video (11 comments)
Tags: Jimmy Fallon | Paul Simon | Steve Martin | The Roots
Black Thought instead of T-Pain, background dancers, nautical themed pashmina afghans. This performance is REAL. ... CONTINUE READING THE LONELY ISLAND & THE ROOTS DO "I'M ON A BOAT" ON FALLON»
Posted on May 13, 2009 (0 comments)
Tags: Jimmy Fallon | The Lonely Island | The Roots
While the Roots crew is giving late night television a musical facelift, their one-time DJ/beatboxer dude Scratch has assembled a heavyweight constellation of cameo talent for his second post-Phrenology solo LP. Tracks feature Kanye, Estelle, fellow Philly guy Musiq, Consequence,... CONTINUE READING NEW SCRATCH (FEAT. DAMON ALBARN & TALIB KWELI) - "TOO LATE"»
Posted on April 23, 2009 (5 comments)
Tags: Damon Albarn | Local Natives | Peter Bjorn And John | Scratch | Talib Kweli | The Roots
Add Robert De Niro and you've got yourself an opening night bill trying to please everyone on a show that's otherwise clearly about targeting young men and their twitter accounts. So maybe the Astral Weeks-pimping Van Morrison fit on the... CONTINUE READING THE ROOTS, VAN MORRISON, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE HELP COVER THE DEMOGRAPHIC SPREAD ON THE LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON DEBUT»
Posted on March 3, 2009 in Video (16 comments)
Tags: Headlights | Jimmy Fallon | Justin Timberlake | Stephen Malkmus | The Roots | Van Morrison
Obviously the gossip at last night's Deerhunter show was all about NBC's decision to give Jay Leno a talk show weeknights at 10 PM. What does this mean for Conan, who is taking over the Tonight Show timeslot? Or Jimmy... CONTINUE READING JIMMY FALLON AND QUESTLOVE TO START PRACTICING THEIR BANTER»
Posted on December 9, 2008 in Video (0 comments)
Tags: Girl Talk | Jimmy Fallon | The Roots
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... CONTINUE READING THE ROOTS DO YO GABBA GABBA!»
Posted on November 18, 2008 in Video (7 comments)
Tags: Built To Spill | Questlove | The Roots | Yo Gabba Gabba!
So says ?uestlove! Or, so says a rumor that so says ?uestlove. Jimmy (aka Bag Of Hair) is taking over Conan's seat next year, and having Ahmir for interstitial banter would be at least one factor mitigating his show being... CONTINUE READING THE ROOTS TO BE JIMMY FALLON'S HOUSE BAND?»
Posted on November 17, 2008 (2 comments)
Tags: Jimmy Fallon | The Kills | The Roots
This MP3 was posted around so much yesterday I didn't even bother to listen until later in the night, because I figured you guys didn't need to hear "A Milli" another time. I was so wrong though. The Roots were... CONTINUE READING NEW ROOTS (FEAT. LIL WAYNE) - "A MILLI" (LIVE)»
Posted on October 10, 2008 in MP3 (1 comments)
Tags: Bob Mould | Coachella | Lil Wayne | The Roots
Yo Gabba Gabba!, the kiddie show that grabbed our attention with original music from Cornelius and the Shins, has booked lots more bands to appear in season two. Ladytron, MGMT, Mates Of State, Datarock, Hot Hot Heat, the Roots, Jimmy... CONTINUE READING MORE INDIE ROCKERS VISIT YO GABBA GABBA!»
Posted on September 25, 2008 in Video (28 comments)
Tags: Altered Images | Datarock | Hot Hot Heat | Jimmy Eat World | Ladytron | Mates Of State | MGMT | Mixmaster Mike | The Roots | The Ting Tings | Yo Gabba Gabba!
This is it, the final photo blowout from the inaugural All Points West fest. If you didn't spend your weekend on the internet/in line for a ferry over to Liberty Park, you can see some photos from Friday, a... CONTINUE READING ALL POINTS WEST: SATURDAY & SUNDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on August 11, 2008 in Concert (9 comments)
Tags: All Points West | Animal Collective | Arcade Fire | Bell Orchestre | Ben Harper | Cat Power | Emily Haines | Kings Of Leon | Metric | Secret Machines | The Roots | The Virgins
Photos by Kyle Dean Reinford Over the past decade and change, the scene that's come to define Philadelphia -- in media exposure and in most cases, artistic merit -- has been spearheaded by the most fabulous Roots crew. Going... CONTINUE READING PHOTOS FROM PHILADELPHIA'S INAUGURAL ROOTS PICNIC»
Posted on June 9, 2008 in Concert (8 comments)
Tags: Deerhoof | DJ Jazzy Jeff | Esperanza Spalding | Gnarls Barkley | J Davey | Santigold | Sharon Jones | The Cool Kids | The Dap-Kings | The Roots
The most fabulous Roots crew have a new record out soon, and it looks like they're raising awareness by any means necessary: whether that entails collaborating with a Fall Out boy (see "Birthday Girl"), enlisting a porn star in their... CONTINUE READING THIS WEEK THE ROOTS BECAME COMEDY CENTRAL'S HOUSE BAND»
Posted on April 16, 2008 in Video (3 comments)
Tags: Adam Sandler | Amy Poehler | Ben Stiller | Conan O'Brien | Jon Stewart | Jonah Hill | Kelsey Grammar | Matthew Broderick | Megan Mullaly | Rob Schneider | Robert Smigel | Rosie O'Donnell | Stephen Colbert | Susan Sarandon | The Roots | Triumph The Insult Comic Dog | Will Arnett
Last time we saw the Roots in a video was for intense verse/no chorus Black Thought rant "75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)." To find a visual more in keeping with the Philly crew's video for the Patrick Stump-guesting "Birthday Girl," you... CONTINUE READING NEW ROOTS (FEAT. PATRICK STUMP) VIDEO (FEAT. SASHA GREY) - "BIRTHDAY GIRL"»
Posted on April 15, 2008 in Video (6 comments)
Tags: Casiokids | Fall Out Boy | Patrick Stump | Sasha Grey | SXSW | The Roots
While most of you are sleeping or busy deciding how much money to give Trent for his trouble, ?uestlove is over in his corner of the internet keeping us awake by surreptitiously leaking a new Gnarls Barkley single and not-so-surreptitiously... CONTINUE READING NEW GNARLS BARKLEY - "WHO'S GONNA SAVE MY SOUL"»
Posted on March 3, 2008 in Video (13 comments)
Tags: Cee-Lo | Danger Mouse | Gnarls Barkley | Questlove | The Roots
As we heard a few days ago, the Roots return has been heralded with a one verse/no chorus Black Thought rant over a hard bass-drum groove. If you thought that was pretty hot and raw, you haven't seen the way... CONTINUE READING NEW ROOTS VIDEO - "75 BARS (BLACK'S RECONSTRUCTION)"»
Posted on February 29, 2008 in Video (6 comments)
Tags: The Roots
The Roots' 8th studio LP Rising Down is out out April 29th, and Okayplayer hosts the first "blog banger," which runs through a "one verse/no chorus, lyrical assault from Black Thought over a sharp ?uestlove drum break and analog bass." Backpackers might wanna unload and dig in; what he "spit is like a psychology exam." Works for us, just hope Def Jam does a better job with it than last time -- our hearts can take no more depressed Ahmir webcam confessionals.
Posted on February 22, 2008 (2 comments)
Last time we watched a ?uestlove video diary, it was a somber faced and quiet affair. It's a little different when he calls the rest of the most fabulous Roots crew to hover over his shoulder and clicks on 2... CONTINUE READING 7 ROOTS 1 CUP»
Posted on December 7, 2007 in Video (11 comments)
Tags: No Age | The Best Show | The Roots
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