The last time the Roots held their Roots Picnic festival, it was a virtual affair. In 2020, the Roots, the long-running Philly rap greats, teamed up with Michelle Obama for a remote webcast that featured guests like H.E.R. and Lil Baby. Today, the Roots have announced that the Roots Picnic is once again returning to Philadelphia this June. It&am...

The veteran jazz pianist Robert Glasper has always been a prolific collaborator, traveling outside of jazz into the worlds of rap and R&B. Glasper has worked with artists like Kendrick Lamar, Mac Miller, and Q-Tip. In recent years, he’s taken part in supergroups like August Greene, R+R=Now, and Dinner Party. In 2019, Glasper r...

Ashley Monroe, the rootsy country singer who’s part of Miranda Lambert’s group Pistol Annies, has had a trying year. Shortly after releasing her new album Rosegold, Monroe revealed that she’s undergoing chemotherapy, battling a rare form of blood cancer. But Monroe hasn’t let that diagnosis stop her from m...

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Although her bandmates cut their teeth playing in various outfits in Northern Ireland’s music scene, Lyndsey McDougall had never been in a band until she formed New Pagans. “To be honest, I am so sick of young, male bands who look like they don’t care about anything,” she told us in our recent Band To Watch interv...