Detroit-based  Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. just premiered a brand new song. The new track, entitled ”Hiding” is off of the duo’s upcoming EP, Patterns, which will be available this coming Tuesday, April 16th digitally and April 20th physically as a vinyl only Record Store Day piece. The physical version of the EP will include two exclusive remixes.

Earlier this week, the band released the official lyric video for “If You Didn’t See Me (Then You Weren’t On The Dancefloor)” the EP’s first single. Upon it’s release, “If You Didn’t See Me…” hit #1 on HypeMachine’s Most Popular Chart.

Josh and Daniel had this to say about the lyric video: “Hi friends. A few months back we were asked to make a ‘lyric video’ for our new song “If You Didn’t See Me (Then You Weren’t on the Dancefloor”. We didn’t exactly understand what a lyric video’s purpose was,  but it was explained to us that Justin Timberlake and Michael Buble had recently done lyric videos. Since we enjoy any comparison of us made with a straight face to two such perennially snappy dressers as JT and M Bubes we went for it. We also thought it might be fun to turn the video into what is essentially one long, strange commercial for our favorite synthesizer that we used on our forthcoming album… the Teenage Engineering OP-1. If you’re not familiar with the OP-1 it’s really, really amazing AND is the reason you see Daniel playing the world’s smallest keyboard in the video (i’m sure at least a couple of you were wondering). If you ARE familiar with the OP-1 this sorta serves as a fanboy video for its usage and illustrates how we sampled our own vocal, chopped it up and ran it through the OP-1 to create the ‘hook’ you hear intermittently throughout “If You Didn’t See Me…”. “

It’s been a crazy ride for these two Detroit boys. Within a year of posting a self-produced EP on their website, DEJJ were performing in front of 10-15,000 people at Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits, and selling out headlining dates across the country. Warner Bros. Records released the band’s debut album, It’s A Corporate World, in June of 2011, which was championed by Rolling Stone, Paste, Filter and Stereogum. DEJJ became one of the most blogged about bands of 2011. Josh and Daniel are modern day musicians not resigned to a certain category.

Tour Dates:

4/20 – DETROIT – MAJESTIC THEATER (Record Store Day Show)  

4/25 – DC – ROCK AND ROLL HOTEL 

4/26 – BROOKLYN – MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG    

4/27 – BROOKLYN – BROOKLYN BOWL (DJ Set)  

5/10 – DALLAS – THE LOFT 

5/11 – AUSTIN – THE PARISH

5/16 – LOS ANGELES – EL REY

5/17 – SAN FRANCISCO – THE INDEPENDENT

5/24 – CHICAGO – LINCOLN HALL