To commemorate the release of their 13th album, Undun, The Roots performed three sold out shows at Highline Ballroom in NYC.  At these shows, The Legendary debuted many new songs from their latest release.  There has been a lot of buzz around their “bonus” performance of The Otherside w/Bilal on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (see video below), so we thought it was only right to let loose an epic, extended, 15 min version from Highline last week.  One of our favorite cuts off the new album is Lighthouse, so we’re also including the live version as well for your listening pleasure.

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Robert Glasper held his album release party/concert at Le Poisson Rouge not too long ago and rounded up his usual suspects (Chris “Daddy” Dave, Casey Benjamin, Derrick Hodge and Vicente Archer) to play cuts off his fantastic new record, Double Booked (iTunes | Amazon).  Many special guests came out for the occasion, including Bilal, who performed his awesome new song off the Double Booked album, “All Matter”.  Here’s our exclusive 10+ min recording of the song, which is jammed out with some amazing solos and some out of this world drumming by Chris Dave.  I also found some video of the performance, which I included below.

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An oldie but a goodie today… Bilal performed with his band at SOB’s in NYC and brought out Mos Def for “Reminisce”.  Classic material right here.

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