The Knux are packing their bags for a U.S. winter tour in support of their recent album Eraser released last month. Check their Facebook page for full route and dates.

The duo also teamed up with Kid Cudi for “Run,” complete with a fun-filled probably NSFW video. The guys stopped by our studio to talk about song leaks and why they’re not always such a bad thing.

The Roots are set to release their latest album undun on December 6. The 10-track concept album is based on the life of Redford Stephens, though the band gives no information other than his birth and death dates.

“undun is the story of this kid who becomes criminal, but he wasn’t born criminal…he’s actually thoughtful and is neither victim nor hero. Just some kid who begins to order his world in a way that makes the most sense to him at a given moment,” says drummer ?uestlove.

Check the first single “Make My” featuring Big K.R.I.T. over at Okayplayer. Also take a peek behind the scenes with ?uestlove on his role as bandleader with the group at “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.”

Wilco reminds of the do-goodin’ neighbor who’s constantly throwing a bake-sale profiting some horrifying natural disaster or caroling a twee politically correct non-denominational cross-gender tune under random windows. Wilco–like the iconic nice neighbor–is theoretically perfect, and, at times, practically invisible.

Their latest dose of feel-good, vaguely frumpy community service comes in the form of a partnership with Farmer Foodshare, a non-profit that benefits local farmers and the hungry.

Why do the good guys get the cultural shaft? Check out their interview over at Epi-Log. Oh, and their (vaguely bad boy) video from the new album, Whole Love, that, finally, at long last, embraces not just the sweet, tear-jerking poetry in life, but also the deepest ruts in the dirtiest skids.

Meshell Ndegeocello has announced a U.S. winter tour as she prepares to release her ninth album in 20 years, Weather, out November 8. The tour kicks of in November, with additional dates in January.

The album features a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Chelsea Hotel,” and appearances from Chris Connelly (Revolting Cocks, Ministry), Benji Hughes, and Joe Henry.

Check out a recent interview with Meshell at Austin’s KUT radio, as well as our sit-down with the musician, who talked about the benefits and conundrums of being raised as an army brat.

Did real beer even exist in the ’90s? Eh, not if you judged by the suds on tap at most bars. But a movement was brewing.

Dogfish Head Brewery got going in 1995–the incorrigibly zany brewers throw chicory, pumpkins, honey, oddball roots and all kinds of other non-kosher flavor enhancers into their mix, instead of classic beer-makin’ grains used for hundreds of years.

Flash forward 16 years, and Dogfish is one of the most respected–if still staunchly quirky–hops joints around. They’re celebrating their good fortune with Faithfull Ale, crafted to celebrate Pearl Jam’s 20th anniversary as a band and its iconic album “Ten.” The ale is hopped to 20 IBU’s and is fruit-forward, boiled in currants!

“To me, Ten is the perfect example of a record-lover’s-record. The whole thing rocks,” Dogfish Head President and Founder Sam Calagione, said, rather redundantly, in a released statement. “As an off-centered brewery, we believe in celebrating the breadth of our whole portfolio and we feel an affinity for Pearl Jam a long-player band in a singles-obsessed world.”

Cheers to that.

J-Zone is set to release the book “Root for the Villain: Rap, Bullshit and a Celebration of Failure” this fall.

The book is “a collection of memoirs and think pieces written by a curmudgeonly commercial failure who is somehow laughing hysterically at both himself and the stupidity of the world,” according to the rapper. The first chapter is available over at Ego Trip.

Check our archive for more of J-Zone’s take on the music industry, chicks and punk rock ethos.

The culminating interview that breaks down the meta-cultural imprint elBulli seared into our culinary soul (with magical, blazing hot Parmesan air, no doubt), has finally arrived.

We can all take a deep breath, because after every single major critic issued a 50-page thesis in the subdivision of food writing titled “My Fancy Meal at elBulli Was Awesome, In Large Part Because I Have a Giant Petty Cash Account,” the restaurant couldn’t be officially shut down until one last VIP weighed in.

Eva Longoria finally stepped up to the plate on a recent “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

Check out her critical insights in the video below, including, but not limited to, her timeless observation that “they really do crazy stuff!”

Jonathan Gold couldn’t have said it better.