The Roots, also known as The Legendary Roots Crew, The Square Roots and The Foundation, are an influential, Grammy winning hip hop group based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fa...read more on Last.fm →
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Jason Grishkoff
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Jun 12, 2013
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Back when I started doing the Song of the Day series, we would quote other blogs rather than writing our own reviews. That changed after ~6 months, but it means that there's a whole back-catalog of amazing music on Indie Shuffle that just doesn't hav...
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Joshua Mellin
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Jun 7, 2012
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Leave it to Deep Dish halve Sharam Tayebi, the man who made Eddie Murphy-as-singer cool again with his club-tastic 2006 re-imagining of the comedian's 80's hit "Party All The Time", to emerge triumphant in doing something as bonkers as melding class...
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James Curtis
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Jul 25, 2010
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Being from the UK, there are three things that make me marvel that The Roots took 16 years and 8 albums to produce what has critically been received as their best: 1) When "˜How I Got Over' came out in my country, it barely made a ripple of crap hitt...
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Jason Grishkoff
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Feb 7, 2010
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The Roots are set to release their ninth studio album How I Got Over. The album title comes from a Mahalia Jackson gospel song of the same name. The band has described the new LP as upbeat, funky with political influences. The title track was first p...
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