The concert is sponsored by two Bates student organizations, the college radio station WRBC-FM and the Chase Hall Committee, the principal campus programming board.

Tickets cost $8 plus tax and service charge and are available at www.batestickets.com and all Bull Moose Music stores in Maine and New Hampshire. Only 200 tickets will be available to the general public. For more information, visit www.wrbcadio.com.

Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino, noted for their straightforward dance melodies, have performed at festivals such as the Siren Music Festival in Brooklyn, Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago and the KahBang Indie Music and Art Festival in Bangor.

Their most recent release, Grand, reached No. 170 on the Billboard Top 100 and includes the singles “Daylight,” recently featured in a commercial for Bacardi, and “Lessons Learned,” whose video has been nominated for an MTV Video Music Award.

Established in 1958, Bates College Radio, WRBC 91.5 FM, is a leader in college radio nationally. WRBC plays music from all genres and eras. Shows are hosted by students and members of the Lewiston-Auburn community. Find the station at www.wrbcradio.com or at 91.5 FM in the Lewiston-Auburn area.

The Roots, a hip hop sextet recently nominated for two Grammy Awards, perform at 8 p.m. Monday, March 26, in the Bates College’s Gray Athletic Building, Central Avenue.

Doors open at 7 p.m. The concert is presented by the college’s Chase Hall Committee. General-admission tickets cost $30 and are on sale at Bates, Bowdoin and Colby colleges, all Bull Moose Music locations and online. For more information, please call 207-795-7496.

The Roots are applauded for expanding hip hop’s stylistic and thematic boundaries. “Incorporating live instrumentation and thought-provoking lyrics, the Philadelphia band expertly blurs the lines separating artistic integrity and commercial acceptance,” a reviewer for National Public Radio’s World Café wrote.

“The new Game Theory represents another classic Roots record, with a conciseness not heard on previous albums; it’s also staunchly political in tone, matching the seriousness of the times.”

The Roots were recently nominated for two Grammy Awards. Released last August on Def Jam, the song suite Game Theory was nominated for best rap album. A cut from that recording, “Don’t Feel Right,” was nominated for best rap performance by a duo or group.

The sextet also won the NAACP Image Award for outstanding duo or group in a ceremony March 2, and wowed the audience with a medley of U2 songs in honor of the Irish band’s lead singer Bono, who received the NAACP Chairman’s Award at the event.

The Roots are: ?uestlove, the drummer; Black Thought, emcee; Leonard “Hub” Hubbard, bassist; Kamal Gray, keyboardist; Kirk “Captain Kirk” Douglas, guitarist; and Frank Knuckles, percussionist.

The band’s own roots reach back 20 years to 1987 and Philadelphia’s High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, where Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson and Tarik “Black Thought” Trotter met and first discussed starting a band. The Roots had their major-label debut with 1995′s Do You Want More?!!!??! (Geffen), and won popular and critical acceptance with 1999′s Things Fall Apart.

Admission to this concert sponsored by the Bates College Chase Hall Committee is $15 ($10 for students). Tickets are available at Bull Moose Music in Lewiston.

The Gin Blossoms emerged from a burgeoning club scene in Tempe, Ariz., in 1987. A textbook example of the alternative-scene route to success, they were named Phoenix’s best rock band by readers of the Phoenix New Times, played the prestigious South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas, in March 1989, and later that year were named the nation’s best unsigned band by College Music Journal.

The group hit the mainstream in 1993 with the hit “Hey Jealousy.” Tragically, that success took place without the man who wrote that song, Blossoms’ co-founder Doug Hopkins. He left the group that year and in December 1993 committed suicide.

The Gin Blossoms survived the loss of their chief songwriter with little loss of popularity, only to succumb to creative differences in 1997. The current reunion grew out of a series of jam sessions during summer and fall 2001.

The current band includes four of the five Blossoms aboard during the band’s glory days: singer Robin Wilson, guitarists Jesse Valenzuela and Scott Johnson, and bassist Bill Leen. Gary Smith has replaced Phillip Rhodes on drums.

“All I can say for sure is it’s more possible for us to work together full time this coming year than it has been for the last five years,” Wilson told the Phoenix New Times last December. “The band’s attitude, our feelings about the whole thing, are more on track now.”

In conjunction with the tour, Universal Music Group is issuing a 10th-anniversary collector’s edition of the band’s breakthrough album, New Miserable Experience, with a bonus disc of B-sides and rarities. A DVD compilation of their videos is also planned.

“Wilson is proud to be getting back with his former bandmates to reclaim the catalogue of jangly pop gems he now regards with renewed respect,” the New Times reported. ” ‘When we started rehearsing again, I realized it was pretty cool,’ he says. ‘There’s a lot of great material to play. And there’s a lot of songs that people know the words to. It’s gonna be pretty easy for a lot of people to sing along to the entire set.’ ”

For more information, call Bates College at 207-786-6255 or Bull Moose Music at 207-784-6463.

The show, which also features Boston-based Guster and the hip-hop band Fun Lovin’ Criminals, begins at 7:30 p.m. in Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building. Ticket information is available through the Bates student activities office, 207-786-6305.

In “Red,” God Street Wine shows its ability to move among musical styles. Its songs display influences including reggae, Bob Dylan and classic pop, and reviews have been encouraging, according to guitarist and lead singer Lo Faber, who said emotion played a big role in the album’s creation.

“(‘Red’) was the first time in our whole career that the band had a collective sense of anger and frustration that we needed to vent,” Faber said of the group’s response to what members felt was mishandling by a previous label.

“We were forced to question everything — our talent, our career, our existence as a band,” Faber said. “It didn’t matter who heard it, if it became a hit, if we got another record deal or if we ever toured again. We just wanted to make a good album.”

God Street Wine has long had a loyal following. Its fans call themselves “Winos” and swap bootleg tapes of the hundreds of concerts the band has played over the years.

The group’s previous releases include “Bag,” “Who’s Driving?” and “$1.99 Romances.” Until its recent deals with Geffen and Mercury, it had been called “the best unsigned band in the country.” The band records at its own 32-track studio at its home in upstate New York.