This year, RÜFÜS DU SOL is celebrating ten years since the release of their debut, Atlas, and while backstage during Coachella’s weekend two, Jon George and James Hunt did a little looking back with KROQ host Kevan Kenney.

“It was really cool finding old photos of us on tour,” says James. “We did the ‘Atlas’ tour around Australia in 2013 -- digging up old photos and remembering how different it was back then to now. They were definitely the good days.” Jon says of their progression since then, “It is interesting… maybe more mature. I feel mature.”

RÜFÜS DU SOL are getting set to kick off their Las Vegas residency spanning seven dates at the illustrious XS Nightclub at the Wynn on May 5. “It feels like a home being back there again,” Jon says. “One thing that we love about doing DJing is it's a different expression from the live show,” adds James. “We spend a lot of time investing most of our resources and energy into the fact that we're a band, primarily. But we love DJing. It informs our music, we listen to a lot of dance music, especially me and Jon, and the residency is just a really good way for us to showcase the music we love listening to. We have a label called Rose Avenue Records -- a lot of that stuff is dance floor leaning, so we get to play that stuff. Also, the Wynn -- they do invest in more tasteful house and techno, compared to some other places in Vegas. It is a really good platform for this kind of music we listen to and love.”

Planned for the evening, the duo have a four-hour set scheduled, and the idea is simply to “have a lot of fun” James explains, “We make a lot of edits… they're not anywhere online. We use [bandmate] Tyron [Lindqvist’s] vocals on tracks. We make custom little mashups and you know, basically, we curate the set so that there's constant recognition of RÜFÜSthings.”

“I like that we got the freedom too with DJing,” Jon adds. “Obviously, when we did the live show, we're pretty locked into our set list. But with the DJing, we can sort of see if we're losing the audience a little bit or if we need to jolt in energy -- whatever it may be. We’ve got a lot of music that we can sort of lean in any way, in any direction.”

Don't miss Kevan Kenney's full interview with RÜFÜS DU SOL above, and stay tuned for more of KROQ's coverage from Coachella 2024.

This year, RÜFÜS DU SOL is celebrating ten years since the release of their debut, Atlas, and while backstage during Coachella’s weekend two, Jon George and James Hunt did a little looking back with KROQ host Kevan Kenney.
“It was really cool finding old photos of us on tour,” says James. “We did the ‘Atlas’ tour around Australia in 2013 -- digging up old photos and remembering how different it was back then to now. They were definitely the good days.” Jon says of their progression since then, “It is interesting… maybe more mature. I feel mature.”
RÜFÜS DU SOL are getting set to kick off their Las Vegas residency spanning seven dates at the illustrious XS Nightclub at the Wynn on May 5. “It feels like a home being back there again,” Jon says. “One thing that we love about doing DJing is it's a different expression from the live show,” adds James. “We spend a lot of time investing most of our resources and energy into the fact that we're a band, primarily. But we love DJing. It informs our music, we listen to a lot of dance music, especially me and Jon, and the residency is just a really good way for us to showcase the music we love listening to. We have a label called Rose Avenue Records -- a lot of that stuff is dance floor leaning, so we get to play that stuff. Also, the Wynn -- they do invest in more tasteful house and techno, compared to some other places in Vegas. It is a really good platform for this kind of music we listen to and love.”
Planned for the evening, the duo have a four-hour set scheduled, and the idea is simply to “have a lot of fun” James explains, “We make a lot of edits… they're not anywhere online. We use [bandmate] Tyron [Lindqvist’s] vocals on tracks. We make custom little mashups and you know, basically, we curate the set so that there's constant recognition of RÜFÜS things.”
“I like that we got the freedom too with DJing,” Jon adds. “Obviously, when we did the live show, we're pretty locked into our set list. But with the DJing, we can sort of see if we're losing the audience a little bit or if we need to jolt in energy -- whatever it may be. We’ve got a lot of music that we can sort of lean in any way, in any direction.”
Don't miss Kevan Kenney's full interview with RÜFÜS DU SOL above, and stay tuned for more of KROQ's coverage from Coachella 2024.

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