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Questlove remembers the exact moment when the Roots became passé. In Mo’ Meta Blues, the memoir he published last year, the renowned drummer, bandleader, producer, DJ, and all-around music geek flashes back to the filming of Michel Gondry’s concert film Dave Chappelle’s Block Party in 2004: I remember one moment so clearly that it’s like [...]
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Earlier this year, the songwriting legend John Prine came back with the new album The Tree Of Forgiveness, on which he shows why so many of his peers have revered him for so long. One of the songs from The Tree Of Forgiveness is "When I Get To Heaven," a wry vision of what Prine…
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During his long exile from his recording career, Lil Wayne became a frequent guest on sports talk shows, to the point where Skip Bayless now looks like one of his best friends. But Lil Wayne is now, finally, back in the business of releasing music. Last week, Wayne finally got out of his legal entanglements…
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Aerosmith were joined by Jimmy Fallon and The Roots to perform their 1975 classic, 'Walk This Way', with classroom instruments
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Aretha Franklin: Watch Ariana Grande Cover Aretha Franklin With The Roots On Fallon
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Ariana Grande appeared on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon tonight to promote her new album, Sweetener. She was apparently just scheduled to participate in a comedy skit but, as TMZ lays out, producers asked her to perform a song in tribute to the late Aretha Franklin when she arrived on set. Grande…
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Elvis Costello is one of those legacy artists who always seems to be around in some capacity, so it's been easy to forget that a full five years have passed since his last release -- Wise Up Ghost, his 2013 collab with the Roots. That's about to change this fall. Costello's just announced a new…
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