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The posters for Erykah Badu's upcoming tour have somehow managed to be almost as arresting as the album said tour will be supporting—not a small feat, given that New Amerykah Vol. 1 is crazy good. Check out the posters for her shows in Israel and Nigeria, and click the Moscow poster at left for the full itinerary for her May-June jaunt, which features a lot of dates with the Roots. [SoulBounce]

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Get ready for tomorrow's once-in-a-lifetime Boredoms-and-77-drummers performance with six rarities from the Japanese legends. [wizardishungry]

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And now a brief correction regarding our post about the Roots' "75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)" below: "The 'bass' on 75 bars is actually tuba. It's played by the dude with the best name in all of music: Tuba Gooding Jr." Our apologies to Mr. Gooding Jr. for the slight and a hat tip to commenter thatsoraven. [Idolator]

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videodrone

Roots Resurrect Hendrix (Or At Least Wyclef) On "The Colbert Report"


Ok, so "The Roots" played "The Star-Spangled Banner" on The Colbert Report last night, right? Only it was ?uestlove, a touring bassist who joined less than a year ago, and a guitarist who signed on in 2003. Call me old-fashioned, but it just ain't the Roots without Kamal playing keyboard ostinatos and somebody beatboxing on top. If you want a tribute to Woodstock, why not just let Wyclef and will.i.am (I'm sure he knows how to play bass) join ?uestlove in some sort of left-leaning rap supergroup? Call it WQW! The Black Root 'Gees! Probama! [Comedy Central]

1:30 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Anthony Miccio
248 views, 6 comments

Latest by GhostOfDuane: Roots also do a badass Machine Gun jam. more »

reworkings

Patrick "The White Akon" Stump Yanked From Roots Album

You didn't want the worst, you didn't get the worst! The Roots have caved to public disgust and removed "Birthday Girl," their collabo with omnipresent Fall Out Boy troubadour Patrick Stump, from their upcoming album Rising Down. "Birthday Girl" is still the album's first international single, but it's been reduced to "iTunes-only" status in America. I don't really see what makes the song so heinous. It might be a little Sublime for hardcore fans of the band, but if it lacks crossover potential, it's due to the Roots' milquetoast albatross Black Thought, not Stump (ladies on YouTube seem to like the track just fine). If the vocal was credited to Cody ChesnuTT, would the Internet have been so put off? [Nah Right / Photo: AP]

3:45 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Anthony Miccio
854 views, 5 comments

Latest by GhostOfDuane: the roots show i was at recently didn't look all that different from a fall out boy show, except the pants that all the white folks wore were marginally baggier. and that was at the apollo! more »

videodrone

The Roots (Literally) Light It Up


With no chorus, a disorienting Black Thought verse smothered in mic fuzz, and a video where the band douses a kidnapped white dude with gasoline before lighting a match, the forbidding "75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)" will sadly not end up toppling Flo Rida from Billboard or Chris Brown from TRL, but the band can take some comfort that their latest anti-pop offering moves to one of the nastiest combinations of bass and drum you're likely to hear on a major label record this year. Especially the bass. [OnSmash]

12:40 PM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By Jess Harvell
622 views, 14 comments

Latest by chartreuse: something tells me there is nothing like this on the Janet or Mariah albums. The Roots are like the last real rock band...Things fall apart indeed. more »

Did Sarah "Ultragrrrl" Lewitinn jump the gun when she announced that Stolen Transmission had split from Island Def Jam, and would be going back to its roots in her bedroom? According to a source at the label, meetings next week are going to decide the label's eventual fate. [Billboard.biz]

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Apparently Dancing With the Stars' viewers were as flummoxed by Jennie Garth's Fall Out Boy tango as we were; she got sent home on last night's results show. Although if the commenters on this post are to be believed, secret Mormon conspiracies are really at the root of Garth's exit. Oh, America. [rickey.org]

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march sadness

Beach Boys Purists Have Team To Root Against In This Year's NCAA Tournament

Say hello to the UCLA Bruins, who have a freshman named Kevin Love as their center. Why might some people who love the men who brought us "Fun, Fun, Fun" want to root for the team's demise? The answer lies in this quote from today's New York Times: "'He doesn't like to admit that he listens to [The Beach Boys] as much as he does,' said Mike Love, an original Beach Boy and one of Kevin's uncles. 'Because it might mess with his street cred.' " Well, Mike, it's probaly not the fact that it's the Beach Boys as much as it's the fact that the most hated member of the band happens to be a blood relation. After all, when I read that quote earlier, I realized that today's Times story was the first time that I'd seen the name "Mike Love" without the word "Fuck" in front of it in, oh, about 15 months or so. [NYT / Photo: AP]

10:25 AM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Maura Johnston
186 views, 5 comments

Latest by Thierry: He's not fooling anyone with that hat. Fucking Mike Love. more »

mp3

Stuck On Repeat: Don Ho's Daughter Gets To The Root Of Her Boy Problem

We've had some digital form of "Another Dumb Blonde," the first single by Don Ho offspring Hoku, on our hard drives since the days when we used dialup to root around Napster (ah, the low-bandwidth era); POPtastic! posted the MP3 over the weekend, and damned if it hasn't crept back into our MP3 playlist. It's a teasing slice of kiss-off pop, and its smart-chick spirit isn't even marred by the vocoder drops that plagued so much of Billboard's Hot 100 during the post-"Believe" era. More »

4:35 PM on Thu Jan 18 2007
By mjohnston
1,028 views, 5 comments

Latest by josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you: Apropos of chaircrusher, I feel sorry for any woman who has to suffer the surname 'Ho' in this age of bling. In fact, the only person for whom I feel more remorse is the 'Smallwood' that was in my foreign-study more »

leak of the day

The Roots' New Single Is A Gym Class Zero

ARTIST: The Roots ft. Patrick Stump
TITLE: "Birthday Girl"
WEB DEBUT: March 10, 2008 More »
?uestlove emulates Kanye West's superconspicous-consumptionish blogging style, only with a bit of a populist twist. Sample entry: "i realized how spoiled i've gotten in the past few years with my "one scuff and throw em out" steeze with my kicks. remember when mom and dad made you wear your sneaks until the sole could speak several languages?" [okayplayer.com via Nah Right]

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Snoop Dogg will co-headline 311's annual Summer Unity Tour this summer, a long-running jam that has featured such collegiate favorites as the Roots, Matisyahu, and OAR. It's good to see that, despite distractions like a reality show, a movie career, and a vocoder, Snoop hasn't forgotten about those kids just getting into the sticky-icky. [Reuters/Photo: AP]

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It's the slowest news day ever, so here's a maybe-true spoiler for The Next Great American Band! If it's true, the producers sure are going the "shock elimination to goose ratings in a big way" route early. And yes, Dot Dot Dot will be ruining a Lieber and Stoller song on the telly tomorrow night. I'm rooting for "Is That All There Is?," myself. [Vote For The Worst]

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The title of Britney Spears' forthcoming album? Blackout. No, really. Apparently it "refers to blocking out negativity and embracing life fully and captures the dance-friendly nature of the songs," and not sleeping through her court-ordered drug tests. Anyway, we hope that she at least shows off her recently acquired sense of humor by having cover art that's inspired by the classic sleeve reproduced at left. [Mediaseed.tv]

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The first episode of Rock Of Love, VH1's "ladies love Bret Michaels" tramp-a-thon, is now streaming online. Five-minutes-in impression: It's going to be real hard not to root for the one whose favorite song is "Every Thorn Has Its Rose." [VH1]

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We Guess This Means His Ashes Aren't In An Urn Somewhere Well, it could have been worse: The headline writer could have pointed out his "Push Th' Little Daisies" cover. Levert Returns To Roots On Posthumous Album [Billboard]

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Our Advertisers Didn't Think That "Fed Up" Was By Britney, Either

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11:00 AM on Fri Jan 19 2007
By mjohnston
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oh boy

Lindsay Lohan's Long Island Roots Are Showing All Over Her New Single

Another Lindsay Lohan album? Why not, when everything else about the music business is in Titanic-redecoration mode? Thankfully, she seems to have given up on the overly parenthetical titles for "Bossy," the first song from the album to leak. From the bratty lyrics to the Shep Pettibone dime-store synths, the Ne-Yo-written/Stargate-produced track sounds like it was conceived during a particularly debaucherous night of cruising Hempstead Turnpike, hanging out at Spit, and filling up on hangover-prevention food at the Empress Diner. Make of that judgment what you will; I happen to think that the results are completely acceptable for, say, a late-night trip down the Northern State Parkway. (And I'd like to give special props to whatever studio engineer had to scrape the cigarettes-and-whiskey edge of La Lohan's voice—she sounds like a changed woman!) [MINIMP3CENTER]

2:30 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Maura Johnston
320 views, 9 comments

Latest by narymary: Her 5 note range is amazing! more »

The Daily News provides us with today's "rumor that's really the result of a late-night, half-drunken Google search": "Nickelback's alleged Christian-rock roots are the subject of Internet speculation, but the band's antics as of late leave no doubt they've abandoned any puritanical practices." "Alleged Christian-rock roots"? "Internet speculation"? Unless Rush and/or Molloy are talking about a one year-old page on Yahoo! Answers and 40,000 other pieces of Google flotsam, I'm going to chalk this little slip-up to their inability to tell Chad Kroeger and Scott Stapp apart. (Here's a hint for future reference: They may sound sorta alike, but one of them is actually still famous.) [Rush & Molloy]

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11:00 AM on Fri Aug 31 2007
54 views, 1 comment

human resources

John Varvatos Is Keeping It Real

The clothing designer's hiring policy for his brand-new store, located in the former location of CBGB, is allegedly trying to keep the space true to its roots: "All the staff they're hiring for the store are musicians in their other lives... He's really trying to keep the space about music." Why do I have the feeling "musicians in their other lives" is code for "looks like a not-as-well-nourished Julian Casablancas?" Oh, if only G.G. Allin was still around to put in an application. [Gatecrasher / Pic via Racked]

8:45 AM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Maura Johnston
204 views, 4 comments

Latest by Cassiel: I dressed exactly like Minnie Pearl for my interview and they still wouldn't hire me. Posers. more »

videodrone

Snoop Dogg Makes Best Video Of 2007 1979

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Listening Station: Hoots & Hellmouth Takes You "Home"

We first got turned on to Philadelphia roots-pop outfit Hoots & Hellmouth last year, when the band played a stompingly good show in the basement of Chinese restaurant (long story); the mesmerizing "Home In A Boxcar" has been stuck in our heads ever sice, and so we were glad to find it on the group's sef-titled debut, due out next month: More »

10:15 AM on Fri Mar 16 2007
By Brian Raftery
419 views, 3 comments

mp3

Leak Of The Day, Part Two: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Sees Red

Music blog alternapop points us in the direction of two new tracks posted on Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's official website. The first single, "Weapon Of Choice," is a return to the band's fuzz-rock roots, and it's got a pissy-as-all-hell chorus: More »

12:25 PM on Fri Feb 16 2007
By Brian Raftery
408 views, 2 comments

aggregated assault

Aggregated Assault: What The Music Blogs Are Posting Right Now

- A collection of songs titled "Hold On" that, somehow, omits Wilson Phillips. [The Late Greats]
- A few tracks from the Boredoms' recently reissued Super Roots EPs. [Raven Sings The Blues]
- Thanks to the Internet, there is no such thing as a "secret show" anymore, especially if your band's name is the Arcade Fire. [Kwaya Na Kisser]
- When Marcia met Davy: The Monkee tweaks "Daydream Believer" for The Brady Bunch. [totally claimin']

11:52 AM on Mon Jan 22 2007
By mjohnston
17 views, 1 comment

clips

Wrapping Up Beat Street Records' Final Days

Today's New York Daily News story about the closing of Brooklyn's famed record store Beat Street—which shut down in, uh, October—prompted us to find a eulogy for the store that didn't include quotes from a Fannypack member. Luckily, someone had the foresight to film the store's final days and edit together an eight-minute mini-doc on YouTube. Be warned: If watching footage of people rooting around a near-empty record store gets you a bit sniffly, you may want to skip it. More »

4:37 PM on Tue Dec 19 2006
By Brian Raftery
269 views, 2 comments

Latest by NobodyLikesMe: Funny, but this store got nary a whisper in the Boerum Hill/Downtown Bklyn anti-gentrification groups. I can't imagine why not..... more »

leaks

The Shins Hit The Fans...Sort Of

Apparently, the new Shins album, Wincing The Night Away, has now become part of the Information Superhighway. You can read a review of one track, "A Comet Appears," over at Prefix; you can listen to the song, as well, but alas, it's a stream, not an MP3. Meanwhile, a commenter on Stereogum appears to have blurted out some sort of where-to-find-it guidelines, but that info has apparently been pulled. More »

6:13 PM on Fri Oct 20 2006
By Brian Raftery
127 views, 2 comments

poor hipsters

Why Don't Rappers Realize Indie Rock Is Cool?

Why do "top-notch rappers" always work with "cheesy rock'n'rollers?" Loving popular rap while hating popular rock must be difficult for those who want to keep it real while keeping it eclectic. That rappers don't seem to show the same disdain for mainstream pap like Maroon 5, Fall Out Boy and Gwen Stefani that their white hipster fanbase does must stick in the craw of folks who know that the Flaming Lips are so much better than what's on the radio. Is it that Timbaland just hasn't heard the Flaming Lips? Does he need a critic's guiding hand? Or are they just being commercially cagey? And if the final product is good, is it ok to like it? Does that mean you like harlots like Nelly Furtado now? Thank to that accursed Roots feat Patrick Stump devil of a song, Slate's Ben Mathis-Lilley must wrestle with the pop guilt/bullshit that any self-righteous indie snob who puts Kanye West in his top ten list must eventually face. More »

1:00 PM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,587 views, 45 comments

Latest by Lawson: I think this 'story' is mainly an indictment on forced music journalism in general - y'know, "copy's due, oh shit i better think up of two things in music completely unrelated and write on them". there is a constant stream more »