What an experience this was! I had the honor of playing drums with Adrian Quesada’s Boleros Psicodelicos for Austin City Limits last weekend, as we performed the album in its entirety and more. (I played drums on four tunes on the album). Still buzzing from both the festival and the TV show taping, which will air on PBS in upcoming months. Till then, enjoy some photos from the eye of photographer Greg Giannukos.
Today’s the blast off, funk folks! Our seventh LP, Plug It In, up for pre-orders now on our Bandcamp page. Get funkitized or get flunked!
Pre-order the vinyl LP and/or digital here (digital comes free with the vinyl).
Pre-order will get you 6 of the 12 tracks digitally – the rest of the album comes on release day, 11-11-22. There’s plenty of bundle deals that include some of our back catalog as well.
Oh, and to our overseas supporters – the rising cost of shipping records across the pond is beyond our control. BUT, we’re happy to announce the record is available for pre-order at Rap and Soul Mail Order (UK) and HHV (rest of Europe). That outta save you some dough on the shipping.
If streaming is your thing, follow us on Spotify, Apple Music or your preferred DSP to keep updated for all the digital single and album drops.
Thank you for your support!!
The Du-Rites will be playing Channel Music Fest in Dobbs Ferry on Saturday, Sept. 17. Right on the Hudson River, Waterfront Park. 5PM show time. Free + all ages. After our set, we’re the backing band for LuLu Lewis at 6PM, so you really get us for two straight hours of hard grooving. Half funk, half disco/punk. Opening for Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers). A slice of rehearsal footage below. Come by!
Why not drop new tunes on Tuesday for old times sake? New Du-Rites single “Penny Loafers” out today wherever you stream! From our forthcoming 7th LP Plug It In, out in November. Here’s a short clip:
Play while you head over to Crazy Eddie’s for an insannnne end of summer A/C sale. More on the way!
Big up Danger Mouse for giving me the opportunity to play drums on the super dope Danger Mouse & Black Thought Cheat Codes album, out today! It’s a small instrumental section at the end of “Identical Deaths”. It happened by accident when he was playing me the album last summer in my basement; I picked up the sticks and started playing along to the main part of the song. He just said “keep that up,” I recorded it, he added full instrumentation and that’s it.
Proud to have a small part of a big record. Also dope to be credited as a session player. The sample pack stuff is dope in its own way, but I rarely get label copy credit for that stuff and session credits help keep you working. So huge gratitude for Danger Mouse, Dan Auerbach, Adrian Quesada, Madlib and Egon, Prince Paul, Soul Supreme, Lord Finesse, Binky Griptite, Showbiz, Dotan Bergman, Saucy Lady, Big KO and everyone else who saw a clip or heard the packs first, then called me to join them live on stage or play on their records and challenge myself in the past couple years. Now go get Cheat Codes!
NYC: We’re live on stage this Friday (August 5) at Brooklyn Bowl opening up for my longtime friend and music peer RJD2. The funk will be heavy and continuous. Join us. A rehearsal clip below.
Thanks Jacob Burnett from The Vineyard Podcast for having me on. A lot of drum nerdery, musical journey-ism and tips to stay inspired-ness. Enjoy.
This was pretty cool! Happy to see those break records got around. More custom and session druming as of recent that I’ll share when those releases are ready.
The Du-Rites are now kicking off the campaign for the fall release of our seventh album, Plug It In. The first single, “Bay B. MoMa” – a sort of double entendre about art museums with lyrics that make no sense – dropped today on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms. Our spiritual advisor, Broughamin’ Fred, on lead vocals. It’s all about the groove with us anyway. Slow, psychedelic, sleazy, greezy, nasty funk for your summer!
Last week I had the honor of traveling to Austin, TX for a live taping at KUTX radio station (NPR), playing drums in Adrian Quesada’s backing band. We performed cuts from his new album, Boleros Psicodelicos. The album is killer – I’m very happy to have played on four of the tracks, as well as being part of this great group of musicians and singers for the live taping. Watch full performance below.