We fully support not supporting this piece. From SF Weekly : Instrumental hip-hop should be banned. It’s the banal, meandering stepchild of hip-hop. It’s a front-runner for the dubious honor of being the world’s most snooze-inducing form of music. And, shockingly, there are still producers and fans who insist on validating it like it’s anything but sample-based Chinese water-torture—one of whom, RJD2, will be airing out his oh-so-atmospheric productions at Manor West on Wednesday, Feb.1… Read and comment. From thedailyswarm.com.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., RJD2, Jukebox the Ghost and We Are Scientists will headline the first-ever Nowadays festival. The indie-leaning festival will take place at Bethlehem, PA’s ArtsQuest Center at the SteelStacks arts and cultural campus from March 30-31. The festival’s two stages....

Based in Philadelphia, Icebird is the result of a collaboration between renowned beatmaker Rjd2 and singer-songwriter Aaron Livingston. The pair released their debut album The Abandoned Lullaby last October on Rjd2′s label Electrical Connections. Icebird – Wander Icebird – Charmed … Continue reading »

Filed under: News , Exclusive , RPM , New Music , New Releases Alan Wilkis Alan Wilkis is one of Brooklyn, N.Y.'s best kept secrets. The producer has been remixing the likes of Yeasayer , RJD2 , Phantogram and many others to great critical acclaim, but now it's time for the beatmaker to put on his bandleader cap and step out on his own. Wilkis' newest project, 'PRINTS,' is a multimedia collection of songs, videos and art installations that all stem from the same instrumental seed. After working the Kickdrums on 'Come and Go' and getting the remix treatment from Spacebrother and Big ...

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Das Berliner Label Suol beginnt in diesem Jahr mit einer Compilation-Reihe, die sich als hauseigene Mix-Serie präsentieren wird. Für die Premiere hat sich Fritz Kalkbrenner bereit erklärt, der mit seinem Debütalbum "Here Today Gone Tomorrow" vor zwei Jahren eine Echo-Nominierung einheimste. Neben einem bisher unveröffentlichten Song – einem Cover von "Ruby Lee" von Bill Withers – legt der Berliner mit der Zusammenstellung seine musikalischen Wurzeln und Vorlieben offen: von HipHop über Soul und Funk bis hin zu Dance- und House-Musik. Das Album "Suol Mates" wird hierzulande am 16. März erscheinen. Im Folgenden könnt ihr euch das Artwork sowie die Tracklist zu Gemüte ...

(!K7/Fuse) The return of the other space cowboy RJD2’s career has been all over the place. He started out making instrumental hip hop and occasionally teaming up with MCs like Aceyalone (a collaboration that included the track later used as the theme for Mad Men, which has presumably been pretty lucrative for him). But then he took a hard turn into rock with his 2007 album The Third Hand, which wasn’t received nearly as well, before recovering with The Colossus in 2010. That album saw him tryi ...

OK, this is not really new (almost 2 years old) but deffo cute here is RJD2‘s classic, The Glow directed by Brad Hasse

STS9 have confirmed the opening acts for their upcoming Chicago shows. As previously reported, the group will host one of their Great Cycle Spectacles at Chicago’s Congress Theater on January 20 and 21. RJD2 will open for the group on...

Slacker has launched three new Artist Showcase stations: RJD2 Radio, The Parlotones Radio and Blue October Radio. Each station is curated and hosted by the respective band or artist and features songs hand-selected by them along with exclusive commentary. These three stations join a growing

She said disco, DJ from northern France, has shown up on our radar before and we’re excited to see some new stuff. This mix fit today perfectly, a sleepy and comfortable Saturday that made no claim to leave the house. Embedded in the ambient yet at times energized mixtape are Bot’ox, murmurs of RJD2 and [...]

WHAT : Lights All Night WHEN : December 30-31 WHERE : Dallas, TX WHO : Girl Talk, Diplo, RJD2, Neon Indian, MSTRKRFT, Caspa, more WHAT : The Falls Festival WHEN : December 28 - January 1 WHERE : Lorne and Marion Bay, Australia WHO : Foxes">Fleet Foxes, Arctic Monkeys, Beirut, Crystal Castles, Dan Deacon, CSS, Foxes">Fleet Foxes, J Mascis, Metronomy, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, CANT, more WHAT : Snowglobe Festival WHEN : December 29-31 WHERE : Lake Tahoe, CA WHO : A-Trak, Thievery Corporation, Theophilus London, Star Slinger, YACHT, Mux Mool, more WHAT : Rhythm and Vines WHEN : December 29-31 WHERE : Gisborne, New Zealand WHO : Cut Copy, Grandmaster Flash, Architecture in Helsinki, Calvin ...

Based in Philadelphia, Icebird is the result of a collaboration between producer Rjd2 and singer-songwriter Aaron Livingston. The pair released their debut album The Abandoned Lullaby last October 11th on Rjd2′s own label Electrical Connections. To hype up the release, … Continue reading »

The xx have started preparing a follow-up to the London electronic pop outfit's Mercury Prize-winning self-titled debut , with an eye on an early 2012 release. "The majority of the stuff that I'm working now is the xx stuff," producer Jamie xx says in a newly posted video interview with the Creators Project, a joint media effort by Vice and Intel. "We're just about to start recording. Hopefully we'll get it done in time to be asked to do festivals next year, because that's the most fun." 2009's The xx has a slinky bedroom intimacy ...

[ Last Update : December 9] “I hate New Year’s Eve, it’s always so anticlimactic.” – Friends of yours that don’t see live music every year. Perhaps you’ve already got a show picked out for New Year’s Eve 2011-2012. Maybe you lucked out and it’s local or maybe you’re traveling 3,000 miles or even crossing an ocean to get there. Regardless of the status of your plans, it’s always fun to know what else is going on at that exact moment all over the country. [Photo of Umphrey's McGee NYE 2010-2011 by Chad ...