"Roots to Grooves" explores the music, life and careers of musical artists from their earliest beginnings through to their most recent releases.
Join musicians Jay Purcell and Jesse Quigley as they discuss a different artist each week, and share their own perspectives on the subject matters at hand.
"Roots to Grooves" is a production of SIGNL.
Danger Mouse is Brian Burton: a musical auteur and producer extraordinaire. Brian has etched out his place in music by creating symbiotic relationships with juxtaposing music style and genre. Danger …
Japanese Breakfast is Michelle Zauner. Born in Korea and raised in Eugene, Oregon, the Brooklyn based artist engages the listener with tasteful experimentation, and deeply intimate indie rock. Michel…
Little Simz is London born Simbiatu Ajikawo. Bursting onto the music scene with authority, Simz is a rapper first, and an actor second. Simz entices you with engaging compositions and acute storytell…
Electric Guest is Asa Taccone and Matthew Compton. After a nonrandom opportunity to work with Brian Burton, AKA ‘Danger Mouse’, the dynamic duo began creating funky indie rock with a lofi twinge – ha…
Jessie Ware is an English pop songwriter, performer, and podcaster. Garnering acclaim in 2012 with her debut album, Devotion, she has built a successful music career with blooming potential, and has …
Foxygen is Sam France and Jonathan Rado; an experimental and progressive indie music production duo based in Los Angeles California. Following a musical encounter in high school, Sam and Jonathan rea…
Tank and the Bangas are a bundle of joy and positivity sheathed in music and verse. In 2017, the New Orleans based group performed on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series, launching them onto the worldwide…
Magdelena Bay is Matt Lewin and Mica Tenenbaum, a young pop music duo with a retro aesthetic and a progressive persuasion. Magdalena Bay honed their sound with multiple singles and short EPs, taking …
Tom Misch is a producer of downtempo, beats who incorporates his own vocals and jazz infused guitar playing into his tracks. Tom rose to prominence as a teenage bedroom producer in the 2010's, upload…
Flying Lotus is Steven Ellison, a progressive electronic music producer fusing hip hop, jazz, and dubstep, into tasty cocktails of novel vibration. A descendant of the famed Coltrane family, Flying L…
Eli Keszler is a New York based producer, performer, and percussionist, known for grand art installations and inventive compositions. Informed by improvisation and experimental noise, Eli Keszler uti…
Mount Kimbie is Dominic Maker and Kai Campos, an electronic duo from South Bank, London.
Arguably responsible for popularizing the term ‘post-dubstep’, Mount Kimbie expand on the tenants of dubstep, a…
Joywave is a New York electro-pop indie band formed in 2010. After seeing success releasing collaborations with coincident artists, Joywave paved their way to acclaim with their own heavy hitting dan…
Richard Ashcroft is Britain’s spiritual successor to the forefathers of English alternative rock. As lead songwriter and frontman for the renowned project, the Verve, Ashcroft’s mysterious and tortur…
Kaytranada is Haitian born, Canadian raised, Louis Kevin Celestin. Finding a love for DJing and producing in his teens, Kaytranada released digital EPs, albums and remix compilations where he honed h…
"Zero 7" is the legendary European downtempo pop group with releases spanning 3 decades. Beginning as tea boys at a London recording studio, producers Henry Binns and Sam Hardeker began releasing the…
"Hauschka" is the solo project of German pianist, composer and producer Volker Bertelmann.
Volker's approach to music is described as "Prepared Piano", a technique which sees him experiment with the p…
"Unknown Mortal Orchestra" is the musical project from singer, guitarist and songwriter Ruban Nielson.
Ruban was born in Darwin Australia, but moved to New Zealand when he was a child. His first artis…
Leon Michels grew up in New York, picking up the Saxophone while he was in high school. His teachers introduced him to early jazz from artists such as Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington.
It was his enco…
"Deerhunter" are an American rock band from Atlanta, Georgia, originally formed in 2001 by frontman Bradford Cox (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and drummer Moses Archuleta.
Bradford prefers an organic ap…