Friends of The Rub – The Freshest
Posted: April 13, 2012 Filed under: Friends of The Rub, MP3, Rub Radio, The RubOur next installment of “Friends of The Rub” showcases a really unique live project by Vancouver DJ team The Freshest (comprised of DJ’s Seko, Marvel, Kutcorners, and Rico Uno). The duo of DJ Marvel and Kutcorners absolutely crush it here with a mix of R&B/Rap tricked out with some dirty synths and keys, all played live. They make this look far too easy!
Keep in touch with The Freshest by checking out their website as well as their Twitter timeline.
Friends of The Rub – Matthew Africa
Posted: April 10, 2012 Filed under: Friends of The Rub, MP3, Rub Radio, The RubThis week, we start up our new bi-weekly series “Friends of the Rub” as our way of keeping you in the loop with our favorite artists and colleagues. Can’t think of a better way to get this going than with our good buddy Matthew Africa and his latest release “Yay Game: The Best of E-40.”
DOWNLOAD “YAY GAME: THE BEST OF E-40”
Make sure to keep up with Matthew via Twitter and Facebook
Get up on new dance discoveries and party classics, mixed live by beloved Brooklyn selectors The Rub. DJ F.M.C joins us all the way from Oslo, Norway, where he recently won the 2011 National Thre3style DJ competition. He rips through a set of moombahton, house and a ton of exclusives.
http://www.scionav.com/radio17/2/The-Rub-Radio
Photos: Housewarming Party at The Bell House
Posted: March 23, 2012 Filed under: Photos, Press, The Rub
After an amazing run at Southpaw, we were all excited to get our foot in the door and start a brand new era at our new home The Bell House.
The night was a smashing success. We thank you all for coming out to celebrate and support us in our new digs. The place was packed and our guests all brought their ‘A’ game. It was such an honor to have Max Glazer, DJ Sure Shot, Scott Melker, and Kool Kear rock with us and they did not disappoint.
Reminder – We will be back the last Saturday of every month starting on April 28th!
View the entire gallery on The Rub’s Facebook Page (Don’t forget to ‘LIKE’ our page): The Bell House Housewarming Party 3/16/12
It’s time to say hello to The Rub’s new home! While we won’t be hitting our new schedule of last Saturdays at The Bell House until April, we couldn’t let a month go by without a Rub. Join us this Friday, March 16th at 10PM at The Bell House as we warm up our new home with some of our favorite DJs (Max Glazer, Sure Shot, Scott Melker and Kool Kear) and all of our favorite partygoers (YOU!). And please tell all your friends.
Friday, March 16th
The Rub Housewarming Party
The Bell House – 149 7th Street btwn 2nd & 3rd Avenues, Brooklyn
Ayres, Eleven and Cosmo Baker.
Plus special guests Max Glazer, Scott Melker, Sure Shot and Kool Kear.
$10, 10 PM – 4 AM, 21+ w. ID
Scott Melker Edit – Lana Del Ray vs Jay-Z
Posted: March 16, 2012 Filed under: MP3, Rub Radio, The RubExtended Rub family member and featured guest tonight, Scott Melker, brings us a big big track giveway today of a new edit he has made.
We’ve worked with Scott Melker for years, as he has guested at the Rub numerous times, toured with Rub members, and even collaborated on mixes with us as well. He’s one of New York’s top DJ’s that fits in with our mentality perfectly.
We are ecstatic to have him play with us tonight and even more gratified to offer you his new remix:
Get up on new dance discoveries and party classics, mixed live by beloved Brooklyn selectors The Rub. Las Vegas edit king 19Sixty rips the set this month with a ton of exclusive edits, from 80s to house and beyond.
This show ran March 2012.
Live at Southpaw (February 2012)
Posted: March 1, 2012 Filed under: MP3, Rub Radio, The Rub | Tags: February 2012 Live MixWe put a whole lot of thought into our sets for the last one at Southpaw, and we wanted to hit a ton of Rub “standards” from the past 9 years in addition to the brand new music and classics we’re known for. The party was completely rammed from 10 PM til 4:00 AM, and this two hours is chopped down from the entire six hours we recorded. We edited it to reflect the arc of the party and tried to leave in the best parts without fucking up the flow too much, and you can hear all the drunken shoutouts and some of the crowd noise. This was the most fun party we’ve ever DJed in our lives, and we think it’s just a taste of what’s to come.
“One way to tell the story of a great American city is to track the deaths and lives of its many neighborhoods. Dutch traders once sold cedar on Cedar Street, back when downtown was midtown. CBGB gives rise, inexorably, to DBGB. Just as a red giant becomes a white dwarf, an edgy block must lose its edge. ‘It’s ironic, but everything I like about the neighborhood will probably disappear,’ an investment banker named Richard Conway told New York magazine. “And unfortunately, the reason is that people like me are moving into it.” It was 1985, and Conway was talking about the Upper West Side; but he could have been talking about the West Village in 1959, or Park Slope in 2011.”
“’I don’t like to use the word “gentrification,”’ Matt Roff, a co-owner of Southpaw, told me on Saturday night. We were in the hallway near the club’s entrance, where we could talk without shouting. ‘I prefer—I don’t want to say “progress,” either. I see it more as the nature of the beast. This is just how it goes.’ Southpaw, Park Slope’s biggest and grittiest music venue, will close at the end of the month. It will be replaced by the eighth franchise of the New York Kids Club, a ‘children’s enrichment center’ that offers cooking and rock-climbing classes for toddlers.
“While the real Jay-Z was presumably at home in Scarsdale with his infant daughter, the recorded Jay-Z was on Southpaw’s speakers, boasting about his art collection and pledging his undying devotion to Brooklyn. Inside, about eight hundred people shed winter coats, procured cheap cans of beer, and danced; hundreds more huddled against the cold outside, though bouncers had told them they had little hope of getting in. This was Southpaw’s signature event, The Rub, a hip-hop dance party that has taken place monthly since 2002. The party will move to The Bell House, a larger venue in Gowanus…”
Read the rest on The New Yorker Blog
View the entire gallery on Kenny’s Facebook page: http://ow.ly/8UDVX