Fun Fun Fun 2012: Run-D.M.C. Reunion Highlights Lineup Leaks

The full lineup for the 2012  Fun Fun Fun Festival  has not been released yet.  To appease eager fans (and entice ticket sales), festival organizers have been "leaking" a handful performers over the past couple of weeks.  The latest news, and probably biggest so far, is a partial reunion of old school rap legends and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members Run-D.M.C.  Living members Joseph "Run" Simmons and Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniel (DJ Jason "Jam-Master Jay" Mizell was murdered in 2002) will reunite to perform together for the first time in a decade at this years Fun Fun Fun.

As someone who purchased Run-D.M.C.'s first album on cassette in my early teens and a fan of hip-hop since the golden age, I'm excited.  After watching fellow old-schoolers Public Enemy rock the festival with overflowing energy last year, I'd bet on the duo delivering a good set.

If you happen to catch this post early and are hear in Austin, head over to the Mohawk RIGHT NOW - some Fun Fun Fun tickets are being given away during a "Run-D.M.C. Happy Hour" from 5-8.  If not, well, buy tickets to the fest?  In the meantime, here's a little update of Run-D.M.C.'s "It's Like That" produced by Jason Nevins a few years back.




By the way, other leaks so far include Atlas Sound, Bob Mould, Against Me!, The Head and the Heart, Danny Brown and fellow rap legend Rakim, a late scratch from last year's festival.