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John Legend & The Roots: Wake Up

Jeff Strowe October 15, 2010 No Comments

For every “All Along the Watchtower” moments of perfection, the flip side, such as Zac Brown covering “Oh My Sweet Carolina” leaves you looking for the nearest pair of earplugs and questioning why more stringent copyright laws don’t exist. Fortunately for listeners, John Legend and The Roots have hooked up and fall into the former category by collaborating on a series of 12 funk-soul covers that pack a punch and take you back to 1972, both musically and thematically.

Video: Justin Timberlake & Jimmy Fallon’s History Of Hip Hop Medley

Jeffrey Greenblatt September 30, 2010 1 Comment

Last night, pop-singer turned actor Justin Timberlake stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to promote his reported eye-opening role as Napster co-founder Sean Parker in The Social Network. Timberlake,

PT: John & The Roots Have Soul Power

Jeffrey Greenblatt September 27, 2010 No Comments

As we previously reported neo-soul singer John Legend and hip-hop act The Roots have teamed up to release Wake Up! – which hit stores last Tuesday and is a throw

Video: John Legend & The Roots w/ Common – Wake Up Everybody

Jeffrey Greenblatt August 27, 2010 No Comments

While James Brown may have been the Hardest Working Man In Show Business, The Roots clearly deserve the moniker as the Hardest Working Band. The Philly hip-hop act, who serve

Vid: The Roots f. Yim Yames – Dear God 2.0

Jeffrey Greenblatt June 21, 2010 No Comments

After months of delays The Roots will finally drop their ninth studio album, How I Got Over, tomorrow via Def Jam. Last week the Philly hip-hop group, pulled double duty

Videos: Jimmy Fallon Stones Week Schedule

Scott Bernstein May 12, 2010 2 Comments

For those who don’t mind spoilers, you can find out which Exile on Main Street tune Green Day (Monday), Keith Urban (Tuesday), Sheryl Crow (Wednesday) and Phish (Thursday) will cover

Bloggy Goodness: Record, Record Store Day

Jeffrey Greenblatt April 29, 2010 1 Comment

Just a couple of weekends back, scores of independent music stores around the country participated in the third annual Record Store Day. Now that the dust has settled and receipts

Vid: Sting & The Roots – Message In A Bottle

Scott Bernstein April 27, 2010 No Comments

Quite a meeting of the musical minds went down at the National Mall this past Sunday where 150,000 people came out for a rally in support of action on climate

Bloggy Goodness: An Ace Up His Sleeve

Jeffrey Greenblatt December 17, 2009 2 Comments

Attention hipsters – Phish is responsible for the current trend of indie-bands playing special full album shows. Back in 1994, the Vermont jam-act used the second set of their stop

Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Roots Down

Jeffrey Greenblatt October 12, 2009 No Comments

While the verdict may still be out on Jimmy Fallon’s late night hosting abilities, the one thing that everyone can agree on is that as the house band The Roots