Elijah Wood is a music guy. We know this. Way back in 2005, Wood used some of his Lord Of The Rings money to launch an indie label and put out an Apples In Stereo record. (He was in their "Dance Floor" video, too.) He starred in a Flying Lotus clip. In 2021, Wood reunited with the rest of the LOTR cast to rap about the movies with Run The Jewels and Method Man on Colbert. Wood also DJs! But he does not go by the name DJ Frodo. He wants to make sure you know that he's not DJ Frodo. He's been insisting this for years.
Nearly a decade ago, Elijah Wood went on Seth Meyers and debunked the widespread rumor that he's really DJ Frodo. He said that those reports were "unequivocally false... I've had to constantly tell people that that's no my DJ name, which is so crazy because I would be insane to call myself DJ Frodo."
As a DJ, Elijah Wood has long been on a whole different trip. As Wood told both Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert around that time, he's one half of Wooden Wisdom, a vinyl-only DJ duo with music supervisor Zach Cowie: "We play everything from stuff from the '70s through to the '90s, a lot of international stuff, African, Turkish... We do not play hits."
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Wood and Cowie have been at it for 15 years, but they just launched an Instagram in January. Interestingly enough, they have some fantasy-themed gigs coming up.
In May, they've got a sold-out show at Denver's Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, and it seems to be the only one on their schedule that's billed, at least on the eTix page, as a "full-blown Lord Of The Rings rave experience."
So: What does that mean? And would you play a "full-blown Lord Of The Rings rave experience" if you were not really DJ Frodo? Wooden Wisdom's next show is this weekend at the Vanguard in Orlando, and I truly hope no orcs show up.
Right now, Wood is out promoting Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come, one of his many recent roles in a nasty and relatively small horror flick. Last week, he talked to Rolling Stone about his rare vinyl last week, which includes an incredibly rare promo vinyl version of Prince's shelved Black Album.
