?uestlove was throwing Twitter shots at Justin Vernon just a few months ago, but all that is long-buried. Last week, when he was in town for Saturday Night Live, the Bon Iver frontman stopped by the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon studios. As a special treat for the studio audience, he and the Roots played [...]

Last night, Jimmy Fallon’s Late Night show, in Indianapolis for the Super Bowl, played host to rap legend Nas, who performed his blistering comeback single “Nasty” with the Roots backing him up. In the right context, Nas is an absolutely electrifying live performer, and this is pretty much exactly the right context....

MTV reports that President Obama has “a wish list” of campaign supporters for his upcoming 2012 run for re-election and points to a document obtained by The Tennessean. The list includes, among others, Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend, Jay-Z, The Roots, Counting Crows (?), the Band Perry (??) and a boatload of other celebs, CEOs,...

He also wants help from Janelle Monae, The Roots and Alicia Keys

Album releases slow way down this time of year, and this week’s Album Of The Week was mostly a two-horse race between the Black Keys’ El Camino and the Roots’ undun. That ends up being a pretty interesting race because the two albums work in opposite, almost opposed ways. El Camino is practically a riff-delivery [...]