Ed Sheeran shakes a banana as he sing his chart topping hit “Shape of You” in the “Classroom Instruments” series of Jimmy Fallon’s “The Tonight Show”. Read More »
Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon has somehow figured out a way to make pretty much anything go viral. Which is exactly why it’s not so surprising to hear that his new video with “Hello” singer Adele and The Roots has completely taken the Internet by storm. Read More »
Roots' drummer and Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon star Questlove answers in depth questions about controversial rapper Iggy Azalea and singers Beyonce and Sia a new interview in Time magazine. His new show, SoundClash, premieres Wednesday night on VH1 and Palladia. Read More »
Philedephia the city of "Brotherly Love" was one exciting, and outrageous place the past weekend for the 4th of July holiday. Read More »
Nicki Minaj is celebrating 4th of July with The Roots for the Philadelphia's "Wawa Welcome America" celebration. The rapper will perform alongside with Ed Sheeran, Aloe Blacc, Jennifer Hudson. Singer Ariana Grande was apart of the line up to perform, but since has backed out. Read More »
Dave Chappelle proves that he is the name to beat when it comes to comedy. Earlier this week the comedian interrupted the Today Show, while promoting his sold out comedy show featured at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Read More »
After being banned for almost 30 years, Joan River's made her triumphant return to The Tonight Show last night. Read More »
Idina Menzel this weekend blew us all away with her amazing Academy Awards performance of the Frozen original song “Let It Go.” The Oscar-winning song was also performed earlier this week on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, but this time with a bit of a twist. Just as he had done on Late Night, Fallon made this performance a little more special with the help of the Roots and children’s instruments. Read More »
Jack Johnson is, apparently, still very much alive and making Christmas music with the world's most overqualified house band, The Roots. The man behind songs like "Banana Pancakes" joined the band who made "The Seed" famous for a bluesy, laid-back (though the keyboard work could pass for something from Studio One) cover of "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer." Read More »
Earlier this year, Elvis Costello & The Roots teamed up for an album that is as awesome as "an album from Elvis Costello & The Roots" sounds called Wise Up Ghost In spite of all their in-studio greatness, Elvis and The Greatest House Band In The Multiverse still had to get some practice in before performing the tracks live at the Brooklyn Bowl for a record release show in September. Read More »
It may not be time to out the turkey in the oven quite yet, but some of music's biggest stars are starting to prepare for Thanksgiving. Today (Nov. 5) the musical lineup for the 87th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was announced, and it includes both musical veterans and some of the industry's rising stars. Read More »
Ylvis’ song “The Fox” quickly became a viral video hit on YouTube this summer; so of course Jimmy Fallon invited the Norwegian music sensation on to perform for the first time on late night television. Just as the Late Night crew does with many guests, the Roots joined Ylvis for this live version of the song. They basically just recreated the music video in a live setting, but it was still great to see Fallon and the Roots getting involved! Read More »
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon has somewhat of a gift with taking pop songs and turning them into stripped down versions that sound kind of better in a way! This week, Fallon along with the Roots joined Miley Cyrus for a special a capella rendition of her popular hit song, "We Can't Stop." Read More »