event The Roots: The Jam
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Tue Nov 10
11:30 pm,
The Roots: The Jam at Highline BallroomHighline Ballroom 431 W 16th St, New York, NY
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 they emit even just sitting there. 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 calledHow I Got Over is due in the fall.
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Tue Nov 17
11:30 pm,
The Roots: The Jam at Highline BallroomHighline Ballroom 431 W 16th St, New York, NY
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 they emit even just sitting there. 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 calledHow I Got Over is due in the fall.
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 they emit even just sitting there. 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 calledHow I Got Over is due in the fall.
Updated 10/22/2009
