Roots Music News--3.31.12

Warped Tour Returns To Its Roots RollingStone.com I think we've entered a new time of music, it's closer to 1995 than ever. You leave your iPod on shuffle and you can go from Taylor Swift to Mumford & Sons to Kanye West to Falling In Reverse. Taking the festival back to its roots was important for ... See all stories on this topic » RollingStone.com

Rock & Roots music festival off to blazing start Yahoo! Singapore News (blog) So it was that Timbre Rock & Roots @ Marina Promenade got off to a blazing start on Friday evening with a series of incredible, high-energy sets that promises a whole lot more to come. With three of the four acts on the night being blues musicians, ... See all stories on this topic » Yahoo! Singapore News (blog)

Sponging up local musical talent TheDay.com By Rick Koster Anyone venturing into area music clubs recently can attest to the fact that it's been raining roots and Americana. More to the point, Parent, leader of the local alt-country band the Rivergods and co-founder of the ... See all stories on this topic »

The Symbologist: Roots of Sacred Geometry Wicked Local Music and art, science and math, all have patterns. There are patterns in the tiniest things and in the expanse of the universe. Patterns are combinations of repeated shapes. The most perfect shapes are those of the golden mean, or golden ratio — a ... See all stories on this topic »

SXSW 2012: A week spent lost in Austin (Part 5 of 5) Daily News Transcript ... fumbling in and out of bars as music blared. This week was a slow ramp up from Tuesday onward, as the parties and showcases got better and better. Saturday was supposed to be the pinnacle of that building momentum and with bands like The Roots, ... See all stories on this topic »

7Lions' 'Born 2 Run' video debuts ESPN And now, the band debuts the song's video here on ESPN Music. The song is also catching on at grass-roots levels, in marathons, workouts and road races, a testament to the theme of the song, according to Prophet (aka Mika Guillory), the group's rapper. See all stories on this topic »

Friday night lights up for Ottawa music fans Ottawa Citizen In an interview after their sound check, the three women who comprise the core of the band said they were "completely flabbergasted" to receive a second Juno nomination, after their surprise win for roots and traditional album of the year in 2010. See all stories on this topic »

Could this be our year for a couple of Junos? Winnipeg Free Press The last time a local artist accepted a glass Juno statuette was 2009 in Vancouver, when Chic Gamine won the Roots & Traditional: Group award and Doc Walker won Country Album of the Year. Additionally, expats James Ehnes and DJ Brace took home a ... See all stories on this topic »