The Roots and Elvis Costello are teaming up in the studio to release a collaborative album, Wise Up Ghost

Over the weekend, the National-curated festival Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (named after the Walt Whitman poem) took place at the borough’s sprawling venue BAM. Performers included the Roots, Solange, David Lonstreth of Dirty Projectors, Parquet Courts, and many others. We sent Daniel Topete to shoot Here We Go Magic, Phosphorescent, and S...

The forever-sincere backpack-rap vet Talib Kweli is old buddies with the Roots, so anytime he’s got new music coming out, it’s a fair bet he’ll end up on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, with the band backing him up. Kweli’s new album Prisoner Of Conscious is out soon, so last night, he was on Fallon [...]

If you caught any of Major Lazer’s frantic, fun-as-hell festival-rocking live shows over the last few years, you likely saw girls twerking on speaker-risers, Skerritt Bwoy performing death-defying feats of daggering, and Diplo perched behind his DJ table, looking vaguely bemused at the whole spectacle. But the Major Lazer that appeared...

Next week, Ghostface Killah will release Twelve Reasons To Die, the soul-rap concept album he made with the producer and composer Adrian Younge. Last night, he stopped by Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to perform the album track “I Declare War,” and he had a pretty amazing cast of supporting players with him: the Roots, [...]