One For The Weekend: The Budos Band

Check out "Overlander" off the new Budos Band album "VII" due May 30. They rock the Danforth Music Hall on June 27th.

The Budos Band rocks The Phoenix, Saturday

The mighty Budos Band returns to Toronto for one last blow-out at The Phoenix on Saturday with Pretty opening. 

Hear The Budos Band's "Haunted Sea" off their new album out today

"Haunted Sea" is off the Budos Bands new album Long In The Tooth available here. 

One For The Weekend: The Budos Band

The Budos Band's latest studio album, Long In The Tooth is out October 9th via Daptone. Check the title track below. 

Here's the scoop...

Marking 15 years from the release of the Budos Band's debut album, Daptone's Royal Court from Staten Island delivers a truly epic collection of new material that finds the group further bridging the gap between the farfisa-fueled Ethio-Funk stylings of their early recordings, with the psychedelic, Sabbath-inspired hellfire of late. Listen to the title track from Long In The Tooth. Pre-order the album and get various Budos Band merchandise right here. 

Philly's finest Low Cut Connie tear up The Drake Hotel, Saturday

Low Cut Connie's latest Hi Honey was produced by Thomas Brenneck and features Greg Cartwright.

Watch the Tarantino-esque video for the Budos Band's Magus Mountain

Magus Mountain is off the Budos Band's new album Burnt Offering out now on Daptone Records.

Budos Band get creepy for new album "Burnt Offering" due October 21

The Budos Band's new direction inspired drummer/artist Brian Profilio to go witchy for Burnt Offering's sleeve.

BUDOS BAND TOUR DATES
Jul 12 - Chicago, IL @ Metro
Jul 24 - Twilight Concert Series @ Salt Lake City, UT
Jul 25 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
Jul 26 - Seattle, WA @ Capitol Hill Block Party
Jul 27 - Victoria, BC @ Philipps Brewery
Jul 31 - Los Angeles @ Echo Plex
Aug 1 - Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
Aug 2 - San Diego, CA @ Casbah
Oct 25 - Brooklyn, NY @ The Wick
Nov 15 - Live Oak, FL @ Bear Creek Festival

New Budos Band tune unleashed

The thumping new Budos Band tune called "Unbroken, Unshaven" is the first track to be released from their forthcoming Budos Band III album (due August 10) and it sounds like a winner. You'll get to hear a full preview of the Staten Island soul crew's 11-track opus when the Budos bashers get down at Lee's Palace (529 Bloor West) on July 17. 
Daptone currently has a special pre-order deal for the new album – if you're one of the first 800 to purchase a copy of Budos Band III on CD or LP (with download link coupon included) from the label's site, they'll throw in a free copy of the new Budos Band limited-edition 7" single KAKAL b/w Hidden Hand. Check it out here.

Budos Band III track listing

1 Rite of the Ancients
2 Black Venom
3 River Serpentine
4 Unbroken, Unshaven
5 Nature’s Wrath
6 Golden Dunes
7 Budos Dirge
8 Raja Haje
9 Crimson Skies
10 Mark of the Unnamed
11 Reppirt Yad 




Unbroken, Unshaven by The Budos Band


LINKS
Budos Band site http://www.thebudosband.com/
Daptone Records htp://www.daptonerecords.com

Them Budos bashers are back

The Budos Band's as-yet-untitled new album was recorded in January at Daptone's House of Soul with the official release tentatively set for early July but you'll get an in-person preview tonight (Thursday, April 1) when Staten Island's finest 11-piece instrumental Afro-soul crew hit the Horseshoe with horns blasting. It may be April Fools Day but as you can see from the clips below shot a Brooklyn gig during a break in the "Budos III" sessions, these badass Budos boys are no joke.
Hamiltonians should note that the Budos Band will be heating up Hess Village tomorrow (Friday, April 2) with a party at The Pearl Company Arts Centre (16 Steven Street at King William). Doors open at 9 pm and tickets are $25.    

The Budos Band Live @ Southpaw January 16, 2010

Super Derge


Spectral Serpent


LINKS
http://www.thebudosband.com/
http://www.daptonerecords.com/budosband.html
http://thepearlcompany.ca

Daptone's ever-expanding funk empire

With Kid Cudi and Billy Blue Fresh taking a sampling tip from 50 Cent and jacking the guitar hook from The Traitor by the Menahan Street Band to nasty-up their own joints, the Dunham label subsidiary of Daptone has decided to capitalize on the hip-hop community's obvious appreciation of the Menahan's dark vibe by releasing a rap record of their own.
But instead of collaborating with  some overpaid MC whose gonna demand that their entire posse get paid for a cloudy studio session, they've gone with some less-expensive rising stars, 3 Titans. Never heard of 'em? Well, they're actually three fresh-flowing fifth graders better known around the school yard as Khalil Jackson, Jorden Plaines and Dallas Ifill who drop some 11-year-old wisdom about the value of education on the message single College b/w The Life Of A Scholar. The tight two-sider is produced by Dunham mainman Thomas Brenneck (of Dap Kings fame) and drummer Homer Steinweiss who enhance the bumpin' grooves with righteous vibes sweetening and a solid boom-bap respectively.  Check it out...

College by 3 Titans


Life Of A Scholar by 3 Titans



At the moment, Brenneck is in the studio putting the finishing touches on the much anticipated debut album from hard-belting soul shouter Charles Bradley whose 2007 single The World (Is Going Up In Flames) is one of the highlights of last year's excellent Daptone Gold collection.

The World (Is Going Up In Flames) by Charles Bradley @ Barrymore Theatre, Madison Wisconsin Dec 3, 2008

While we're on the subject of Daptone, label boss Gabriel Roth recently sat down for an in-depth interview with Wax Poetics contributor Jeff "Chairman" Mao presented by Red Bull Music Academy.
In the lengthy but engaging chat, the producer, arranger, composer, engineer, plumber and musician breaks down the Daptone philosophy, reveals a few Bushwick recording secrets, discusses his tenuous relationship with the music biz and recalls some lessons learned the hard way.
Roth also previews new recordings from the Budos Band (at the Horseshoe April 1) and Sharon Jones (at the Sound Academy May 25) in addition to spinning some of the Dap Kings uncredited moonlighting projects. The bit about Clive Davis asking him to produce the new Rod Stewart album at the 47 minute mark is too good to miss. Incidentally, the new album from Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, I Learned The Hard Way is due from Daptone April 6.

Gabriel Roth – The Mathematics Of Soul


LINKS
http://www.daptonerecords.com/
http://dunhamrecords.com/