So, maybe I’m not hip enough or familiar enough with the writers over at Brightest Young Things, but somebody please tell me Peter is being ironic when he swears he has no idea who The Roots are. Please? Someone make me feel better?
Anyway, BYT is giving away a bunch of tickets to The Roots’ show at the 9:30 Club next week, so you should enter.
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December 27th, 2009 at 9:28 am
Given the stylistic allusion to Carles and reference to the meta-humour of the work in the concluding note, one can deduce that this blog post should be interpreted as a joke. As to if The Roots have released relevant music in a long time – or, some would say, a thoroughly consistent and valuable album ever – remains an open question.