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The Roots
The Roots


Background information
Origin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Genre(s) Hip-hop
Jazz
Soul
Rock
Funk
Years active 1987—present
Label(s) Def Jam Recordings
Geffen Records
Interscope Records
Island Def Jam Music Group
MCA Records
DGC Records
Website Website
Members
Black Thought
Questlove
Kamal Gray
F. Knuckles
Captain Kirk Douglas
Damon "Tuba Gooding Jr." Bryson
Owen Biddle
Former members
Ben Kenney
Kenyatta "Kid Crumbs" Warren
Josh "Rubberband" Abrams
Malik B.
Rahzel
Scott Storch
Martin Luther
Scratch
Dice Raw
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You Me At Six, Opeth, Duff McKagan Join Download Line Up

March 24, 2009
You Me At Six, Opeth, Duff McKagan Join Download Line UpYou Me At Six and former Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan's Loaded have joined this year's Download festival line up.

Other additions to the festival include Opeth, Meshuggah and Dir En Grey.

Steadlur, Lawnmower Death and Five Finger Death Punch will also perform at the event, which takes place in Donington Park on the weekend of June 12th-14th.

As previously reported, Download will be headlined by Slipknot, Def Leppard and Faith No More.

The festival will mark Faith No More's first live show in eleven years. The band, fronted by Mike Patton, split in 1998.

(by Jason Gregory)



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