I generally hate covers albums. As much as I love John Legend and The Roots individually, there was a little part of me that thought their album-length collaboration, “Wake Up!” was going to be a humongous bust. My heart sang even further when the album was previewed by their version of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes’ “Wake Up Everybody”. Covering anything on which Teddy Pendergrass originally sung is generally a crime in and of itself, but adding Melanie Fiona […]
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The Roots Continue to Show How to “Get Over” in the Hip-Hop Game
To say that The Roots have been hip-hop’s most consistently dope act is to do them a disservice. Fact is, the Philly crew has been one of the most consistently dope acts in music PERIOD over the past decade and a half. Despite making slight adjustments to their sound over the years in order to compete in the marketplace, the group’s never made a move that was desperate or ill-advised. Until (unless?) OutKast and the Beastie Boys come back, The […]
Preview The Roots’ “How I Got Over” Now!!
My brother from another mother, GG over at SonicClash hipped me to a very cool preview for The Roots’ upcoming “How I Got Over” album, which FINALLY comes out on Monday (yes, I said Monday). You can check out the first 90 seconds of each track on the album. There’s no doubt in my mind that Black Thought, ?uestlove and the rest of the band (which includes Tuba Gooding Jr., the best name in the music business) will come with the […]
"Dear God": Thanks for Allowing The Roots to Put Out a New Record
Straight up. I love The Roots. Even if I didn’t think ?uestlove might be my Blerd brother from another mother, I’d still dig the band. Hell, they make Jimmy Fallon tolerable, and that is a tall, tall order. Previewing the June release of “How I Got Over”, the Philly band’s 9th studio album, check out “Dear God 2.0”, a slight re-imagining of a track originally written and performed by indie rock supergroup Monsters of Folk that was released last fall […]
Liquid Liquid Lives on Late Night!!
I was on Twitter at some point last week and remembered ?uestlove of The Roots posting something that sounded like he was trying to say Liquid Liquid was gonna be on the Jimmy Fallon show. I was sort of half paying attention, and just kinda put it aside. “Couldn’t be,” I thought. “They must have broken up years ago”. Lo and behold, I’m surfing the internets and there’s Liquid Liquid performing “Cavern” on Jimmy Fallon’s late night talk fest with […]
People All Over the World…
Last Saturday, VH-1 premiered “Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America”, a documentary paying tribute to a show that’s an integral part of black history, music history, and black music history. In the days before BET and MTV (and even during the years when MTV existed but played next to nothing by black artists), “Soul Train” was just about the only place to go to see R&B, funk and hip-hop artists performing their hits on television. In addition, Don Cornelius’s […]