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The Roots
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Thu Jul 1
10 pm
The Roots at Briggs & Stratton Big Backyard (Summerfest)
The Roots have been extremely cool so far as the house band on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, a show that gains a lot from the energy the group emits just sitting there. In addition to its ineffable aura, no other outfit in hip-hop (not to mention any other realm of music) boasts as strong a reputation for barnstorming funk pyrotechnics. Even if The Roots’ incendiary leanings are tempered a bit on TV, the Late Night gig hasn’t dampened the group’s restless activity: A new Roots record called How I Got Over came out in June, featuring contributions from members of Dirty Projectors and re-workings of songs by Joanna Newsom and Monsters Of Folk—which is also pretty cool.
Briggs & Stratton Big Backyard (Summerfest) 200 N Harbor Dr, Milwaukee, WI
The Roots have been extremely cool so far as the house band on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, a show that gains a lot from the energy the group emits just sitting there. In addition to its ineffable aura, no other outfit in hip-hop (not to mention any other realm of music) boasts as strong a reputation for barnstorming funk pyrotechnics. Even if The Roots’ incendiary leanings are tempered a bit on TV, the Late Night gig hasn’t dampened the group’s restless activity: A new Roots record called How I Got Over came out in June, featuring contributions from members of Dirty Projectors and re-workings of songs by Joanna Newsom and Monsters Of Folk—which is also pretty cool.
Updated 12/14/2011
