On April 14, 2012 he along with Travis McCoy, Black Thought,? uestlove and The Roots performed a medley of Beastie Boys classics at the 2012 Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony.

On " 75 Bars ( Black's Reconstruction )" off the Rising Down album, Black Thought refers to The Roots as " gentlemen of an extraordinary league ".

Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues.

White Blossoms from Black Roots: The History and the Chronology: Volume One, was planned to be the first of five albums that would a chronological retrospective that would showcase the evolution of Norman as a songwriter, featuring a juxtaposition of styles from 1956 to 1986.

However, soon after the CD pressings of White Blossoms from Black Roots had been sent to the distribution company, " the FBI arrested the head of the company for check forgery and seized all of the merchandise ", resulting in loss of access to his artwork, and digital tape masters, as well as to the material prepared for other Solid Rock Imports artists.

Before, during and after his stint in Black Flag, Cadena was a member of Redd Kross, Twisted Roots, and Ella and the Blacks, a band which he co-founded.

Black Thought and Malik B. of The Roots.

Among the artists for the set are The Roots (" Star ", which samples " Everybody is a Star "), Maroon 5 and Ciara (" Everyday People "), John Legend, Joss Stone & Van Hunt (" Family Affair "), The Black Eyed Peas ' will. i. am (" Dance to the Music "), and Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and Robert Randolph (" I Want to Take You Higher ").

" Alternative Roots ", an episode of the BBC comedy series The Goodies, spoofed the popularity of The Black and White Minstrel Show, suggesting that any programme could double its viewing figures by being performed in blackface, and mentioning that a series of The Black and White Minstrel Show had been tried without make up.

Sugar Minott continued to record on his Black Roots label, Youth Promotion Label and for Major and Independent labels.

Minott's desire for independence led him to leave Studio One in 1978 and form his own Black Roots Records label and Youth Promotion organization, the latter with the aim of helping young singers from the same ghetto background as himself.

* Black Roots ( 1979, Black Roots / Island )

* Roots Lovers ( 1980, Black Roots )

* African Girl ( 1981, Black Roots )

* Dancehall Showcase ( 1983, Black Roots )

* Herbman Hustling ( 1984, Black Roots )

* Slice Of The Cake ( 1984, Black Roots )

* Inna Reggae Dance Hall ( 1986, Black Roots )

* African Soldier ( 1988, Black Roots )

Ninja Tune is a British independent record label started by DJs Matt Black and Jonathan More, better known as Coldcut and managed by Peter Quicke.

Her relationship with the Capitol label spanned almost three decades, aside from her brief but artistically rich detour ( 1952 – 1956 ) at Decca Records, where in 1956 she recorded one of her most acclaimed albums, Black Coffee.

In early 1987, Evans negotiated a deal with Revolver FM for a one-off release on the specially created Black Records label ; by the time of the release of the single, " Sally Cinnamon ", the group's sound had changed considerably, with chiming guitar hooks and a strong melody, alienating some of their old fans but attracting many new ones.

In the 1960s, record producer J. D. " Jay " Miller published pro-racial segregation music with the " Reb Rebel " label featuring racist songs by Johnny Rebel and others, demeaning black Americans and the Black Civil Rights movement.

In the mid-1980s, Hughes recorded several different albums with bands and artists including Phenomena ( Phenomena, Phenomena II: Dream Runner ), Gary Moore ( Run For Cover ), and Black Sabbath ( Seventh Star, though this was to have been a solo album by Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, and only came out as a Sabbath album due to record label pressure ).

According to Rolling Stone, Love's unreleased 1973 LP " Black Beauty " will finally hit shelves on June 7, 2012, according to a statement released by the new label High Moon Records.

The superfamily label does not include quite different designs given the same family name for what would seem to be purely marketing, rather than design, considerations: Caslon Antique, Futura Black and Futura Display are structurally unrelated to the Caslon and Futura families, respectively, and are generally not considered part of those families by typographers, despite their names.

Similar to Black Flag and Youth Brigade, Dead Kennedys released their albums on their own label Alternative Tentacles.

I only think NS Black Metal is an inappropriate label for the music ".

in 1990 after Albini had an argument with the label over the release of a Big Black record.

Black Flag guitarist Greg Ginn's SST record label, a seminal alternative rock label of the 1980s, maintained its headquarters in Lawndale.

With Cilla Black, Billy J. Kramer, the Fourmost, and contemporary Mancunian band The Hollies also signed to the label, Parlophone in the 1960s became one of the world's most famous and prestigious record labels.

His last studio recordings as a leader were made in November 1971 for the English Black Lion label, near the end of a worldwide tour with " The Giants of Jazz ," a group which included Dizzy Gillespie, Kai Winding, Sonny Stitt, Al McKibbon and Art Blakey.

The label has also remastered and re-released the early works of its acid heroes 808 State and The Future Sound of London, and relaunched the career of electronic duo producers Black Devil with a re-release of their first record.

1984 saw Black Flag ( and the SST label ) at their most ambitious.

Despite 1984-85 being the most fruitful period for the band and their record label, Ginn and Rollins would ultimately decide to eject Roessler from Black Flag, citing erratic behavior.

SST Records, an independent American record label that was initially founded to release Black Flag ’ s debut single, released recordings by influential bands such as Bad Brains, The Minutemen, Descendents, Meat Puppets, and Hüsker Dü.

The band subsequently toured with label mates Minus The Bear, performed hometown shows at Chicago's Metro and the Black Cat in Washington, DC, and performed on the JBTV Television Show in Chicago, IL.

* Black Market Activities, a record label

Ginn repurposed the company as a record label to release material by his band Black Flag.

However, the band felt that SST did not devote enough attention to its releases ; Hüsker Dü drummer Grant Hart said after the band left the label, " I think there's a little reluctance on their part to let anything get a little more attention than Black Flag.

Ginn and Dukowski ended up doing several days in Los Angeles County Jail for contempt of court, but the case fizzled out soon afterward when Unicorn went out of business, freeing Black Flag of any further obligation to the label.

The Long Road to Freedom, An Anthology of Black Music, a huge multi-artist project recorded during the 1960s and 1970s with RCA, was finally released by the label in 2001.

From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, he was closely associated with the punk rock band Black Flag and the record label SST Records, both founded by his older brother Greg Ginn.