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After nine years in Philly, The Roots are finally picnicking it in NYC.

King Krule at Terminal 5 in 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows. Here are some highlights…

Heliotropes at Cake Shop earlier this month (more by Amanda Hatfield) As tends to happen around Halloween, we’ve been getting a handful of thematically appropriate cover songs surfacing today, and this one comes from Heliotropes, who offer their take on “I Walked With A Zombie” by Roky Erickson and the Aliens…

A little after 1 p.m., the Parkway was already jammed with people who had come from near and far for the Fourth of July celebration in Philadelphia – and it stayed that way well into the night as the Roots repeatedly rocked the stage, and Earth, Wind & Fire’s Philip Bailey hit some stratospheric high notes…

Full press release below…

Pharaohe Monch sez GTFU! Its that time of year again… when NYC flexes its considerable Hip Hop muscle with a summer of killer hip hop shows…