Although her bandmates cut their teeth playing in various outfits in Northern Ireland’s music scene, Lyndsey McDougall had never been in a band until she formed New Pagans. “To be honest, I am so sick of young, male bands who look like they don’t care about anything,” she told us in our recent Band To Watch interv...

A whole bunch of prominent artists are coming together this weekend for #SOSFest, a virtual festival to benefit the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) Emergency Relief Fund for venues struggling during the pandemic and support the Save Our Stages Act. Foo Fighters, Phoebe Bridgers, Miley Cyrus, the Roots, YG, Major Lazer, Leon Bridges...

Foo Fighters are among the many artists headlining the stacked #SOSFest this weekend. Organized by the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) to support the Save Our Stages Act, the virtual festival will also feature performances from Phoebe Bridgers, the Roots, Miley Cyrus, YG, Major Lazer, Leon Bridges, and more. And to preview their up...

The Philadelphia rapper Malik Abdul Basit, who recorded as Malik B., has died. Basit was one of the founding members of the Roots, the long-running and beloved hip-hop band, who confirmed his death to Rolling Stone. No cause of death has been reported yet. Basit was 47.

The Roots have been a Philadelphia institution for decades. ?uestlove and Black Thought, the two original members who are still in the band, formed the Roots in 1987, when they were both students and a Philly performing-arts high school. They played their first show -- not counting street-corner busking -- at a 1989 talent show,…