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The Roots Present - The Jam
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The Roots Present - The Jam

Tuesday, July 14 11:30p
at Highline Ballroom, New York, NY
Price: $10.00 in advance $12.00 day of show.
Age Suitability: None Specified
Tags: concert

Innovators in rap and hip-hop, The Roots began focusing on live instrumentation in recordings and concerts in 1987 when rapper Black Thought (Tariq Trotter) and drummer ?uestlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) met at the Philadelphia High School for Creative Performing Arts. Forsaking the usual hip-hop protocol, The Roots' produced its first major-label album, Do You Want More?!!!??! (1995), without any samples or previously recorded material, and made a name for itself by defying genres and conventions. The group is known for its complex and politically aware lyrical content ranging from violence and its consequences to the crime, poverty, guns and drug culture plaguing its hometown of Philadelphia. In 2009, The Roots will be the house band for Jimmy Fallon's new NBC late night talk show. This show kicks off a series of Tuesday late nights featuring the band alongside special guests TBA at The Highline.

Category: Music
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By taking the sounds traditionally produced by old-school DJs--spare breakbeats, scratch squiggles, burly bass lines--and recreating them in the organic context of a traditional live band, the Roots presented themselves at once as visionaries and rigid traditionalists.
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Highline Ballroom
431 W. 16th St.
New York, NY 10013
(212) 414-5994
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