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Watch Justin Vernon Play "Perth" with The Roots

During his stay in New York for his SNL appearance, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon stopped by Jimmy Fallon’s studio to perform an alternate, extended take on “Perth” from last year’s Bon Iver. Vernon performed the track as an exclusive to Fallon's studio audience.   read more

Watch Nas Perform “Nasty” with The Roots on Fallon

Live from Indianapolis for the Super Bowl, _Late Night With Jimmy Fallon_ hosted rapper Nas last night to perform his new single “Nasty” with The Roots.   read more

The 10 Best Songs By The Roots

To celebrate ?uestlove's birthday today, we dug through The Roots catalog, revisiting the band's 10 best songs.  read more

Watch Wale Perform With the Roots on Fallon

Wale received backing instrumentation from the Roots and vocal assistance from Miguel on “Lotus Flower Bomb” last night on Late Night. The song has been the only single off of Ambition and is more of a slow jam than a break out hip-hop anthem. Regardless, the rapper performed the song to perfection.  read more

The Roots: Doing It Their Own Weird, Wonderful Way

Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson, drummer/sonic visionary for hip-hop icons The Roots, is currently being harassed by a gang of rowdy Muppets.   read more

Paste mPlayer Issue 22 Is Live!

With a meticulously crafted new album, The Roots are on the cover of this week’s issue, which also features Southern gothic band 13ghosts, Best of What’s Next group Mother Mother and comedian Joe DeRosa....  read more

NBC to Screen The Roots' Fallon Songs

NBC will now check all songs that the Roots perform on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Billboard reports. This comes after the band performed a version of the Fishbone track “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” during Michele Bachmann’s Nov. 22 appearance on the show.   read more

The Roots: undun

The Roots have always had this knack for finding a balance between necessary creative exploration and accessibility among even the most casual fans of hip-hop, of being able to bring joy and light in one breath and cerebral political discourse in the next, human darkness in the one after that.  read more

The Roots' New Album: There's an App for That

Taking a leaf out of Björk's book, hip-hop band The Roots are diving headfirst into the integration of albums with smart phone techonology. Just this week the group made their brand new album undun available for streaming on NPR's website — and today they're rolling out an exclusive app to enrich the listening experience.  read more

Stream the New Album from The Roots

Next week, The Roots will be releasing their thirteenth album, _undun_, but now you can listen to the album a week early.  read more