ICE CUBE: Roots Picnic line-up announced

The most amazing aspect of The Roots Picnic is that the group and its executive decision makers have made certain to live up to its traditions while keeping the now five-year-old outdoor gig fresh. Certainly expanding the always sold out event into two days (June 2 and 3) with different acts on both days is way different.

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ICE CUBE: Roots Picnic line-up announced

POSTED: Thursday, March 15, 2012, 4:30 PM

Filed Under: Music | Philly Bands Show

The most amazing aspect of The Roots Picnic is that the group and its executive decision makers have made certain to live up to its traditions while keeping the now five-year-old outdoor gig fresh. Certainly expanding the always sold out event into two days (June 2 and 3) with different acts on both days is way different.

The Roots themselves headline the Saturday event with newly retired LCD Soundsystem boss James Murphy doing a DJ set with the fest’s alterna-act crown (every Picnic has a punk rocker!) going to St. Vincent. For the Sunday night event, oddball rapper Kid Cudi (whose new WZRD project is a rocking robotic treat) headlines with Tune-Yards as the top notch indie act and the Roots’ Philadelphia bro Diplo playing/ spinning as both a solo artist and as part of his dancehall-dub ensemble Major Lazor whose own new album should be out be June. Also split between the two days is the gently funkyShabbazPalaces, the eerily electronic Flosstradamus and Wale, the hip hopping toast of the Maybach Music Group.

Where tradition is concerned, every year The Roots have found a rap master to collaborate with, to play behind. This year — and I have to say this is the most exciting act they’ve had in a minute — the Roots will back De La Soul, the hippy dippy Dadaist Native Tongues act whose 3 Feet High and Rising is a sampladelic classic. The De La/Roots teaming will happen on June 2. Surely, though you’ll want tix for both days.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow from LiveNation.com, Live Nation Box Office (111 Presidential Blvd, Bala Cynwyd), TLA (334 South St., Philadelphia/ service-charge-free), Festival Pier (Columbus Blvd & Spring Garden St, Phila / day-of-show only) or by-phone at 800-745-3000.

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