The Roots News

The City Roots event will fill the gap left by the much-loved Willow Festival, which last took place in 2003.

A DJ spins some sounds on the Hip-Hop On, Hip-Hop Off tour of significant sites related to rap in New York .

Works by 24 artists of African-Canadian heritage will be displayed at the Royal Ontario Museum during the city's annual Caribana festival.

Audio for today's show will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET. All Things Considered , July 14, 2008 - The new album from the Philadelphia hip-hop band The Roots contains verses from the perspective of a ...

Reclusive comedian Dave Chappelle missed two flights out of Ohio last night and failed to get to a Manhattan fund-raiser for Congressional candidate Kevin Powell of Brooklyn.

Wednesday night's fundraiser for Democratic congressional candidate and Real World alum Kevin Powell , billed as "An Evening with Dave Chappelle ," was notable not only for the young, fresh crowd it drew, but ...

Aboveground; underground...it's all relative to Platinum Pied Pipers ' producer Waajeed .

MARIE DAULNE IS beautiful, elegant, tall and confident. And as the leader of Zap Mama , she creates funky, soul-filled songs that tie together African rhythms, sedative lounge harmonies, jazz horns and hip-hop ...

A national summer tour brought The Roots to the Miller Oasis tonight. Published July 5, 2008 at 3:28 a.m. Tags: the roots , rising down , hip-hop Since their first album nearly ten years ago, The Roots have ...

Philadelphia's innovative hip-hop act the Roots is coming to Edmonton for the first time.

Forty minutes into his master class, Leonard Nelson Hubbard still hasn't picked up his bass.

It was a huge week in hoops, with the NBA Draft going down last night and all kinds of gems over at the Boogie Spot on QuickDFW.com. Not to mention Shaq vs.

A historical music exhibit with Bluegrass State connections has made a stop in northeastern Kentucky.

Hip hop doesn't get much better than The Roots. See them on the Fourth of July at the Miller Lite Oasis.

The Rochester International Jazz Festival ended on Saturday night but music continued Sunday at the 14th Annual Rochester Music Fest.

Last year they brought the Flaming Lips and Cowboy Mouth to Madison for a free show.

A bit of the Baltimore sound will make its way down to Ocean City this Friday when The Grilled Lincolns play Booty's Bar & Grill.

Pato Banton is coming to Whiskey Dick's on Saturday, June 21. This might be the last chance for South Shore reggae fans to catch Pato Banton while he's still in the music business.

I'm digging the new Estelle, Portishead, N.E.R.D., and Roots, but you know what I think is my favorite new joint of all? My favorite album right now is the new Al Green, Lay It Down .

'Lay It Down,' Al Green After two decades of devoting himself to gospel and his ministry in Memphis, Al Green returned to secular themes and soul music in the mid-'90s. The comeback hit full stride when he ...