Our annual list of late night television's best performances has quickly become an annual exercise in big-upping Jimmy Fallon's music talent booker. Way to go, person responsible for pointing those…   Read Story »

On last night's episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Rufush Wainwright sang "Minuit, Chrétiens," the French version of the Christmas song "O Holy Night," with the Roots backing him up in a…   Read Story »

One of the real joys in Jimmy Fallon's late-night run has been the Roots' choices of jokey, thematically appropriate walk-in songs for Fallon's various celebrity guests: "Da Butt" for Serena…   Read Story »

The 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…   Read Story »

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,…   Read Story »

If you were a high school punk at any point in the 1990s, Rancid's "Ruby Soho" is a song that's running through your veins at all times. Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong recently produced Sacred Fire, a…   Read Story »

The Roots' new album undun is a concept album about a man named Redford Stephens, and as it turns out, that particular concept comes from another concept album -- a very celebrated one at that. To…   Read Story »

You'd think they'd slip on Thanksgiving week -- and nobody could blame them -- but the fact that the Roots came through with a video this week is just a testament to how diligent the crew remains.…   Read Story »

The Roots are rolling out a new video and track from their upcoming concept LP undun each Tuesday and this week's edition comes in the form of "Stomp," another black-and-white clip of a hooded figure…   Read Story »

For her new album Betty Wright: The Movie, the '70s soul legend teams up with the Roots, whose ?uestlove co-wrote and co-produced the entire album. And on the smooth rocker "Grapes On A Vine," Lil…   Read Story »