Visit an online archive of Peel Sessions with youtube links!

Dave Strickson has created a fab online archive of over 1,000 Peel Sessions – check it out right here. Son House from 1970 below.

R.I.P. songwriter Cynthia Weil, 1940-2023

Sadly, songwriter Cynthia Weil – who penned numerous hits with Barry Mann – has passed away at 82. She'll be greatly missed. 

That time Ira Kaplan threw out the first pitch at a Mets game

Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan did a much better job of tossing a ceremonial first pitch than either 50 Cent or Questlove. 

Yo La Tengo's latest album, This Stupid World, is available wherever fine vinyl recordings are sold. 

Happy Birthday Lydia Lunch!

Celebrating Lydia Lunch's birthday with a Retrovirus performance with Bob Bert at Szene Wien in 2013 and an interview.  

Watch The Fleshtones live in Cáceres, Spain

Here's some footage of The Fleshtones getting sweaty at a packed Boogaloo Café Concierto in Cáceres, Spain back in March. 

Budos Band kicks off post-Daptone era with Morricone-esque "Frontier's Edge"

The Budos Band takes a sharp turn into spaghetti western territory with the Frontier's Edge EP out July 28th via Diamond West. 

Here's the scoop...

After a two-decade run with Daptone Records, Frontier’s Edge is the first new music from the group on the new label, Diamond West Records — run by The Budos’ saxophonist Jared Tankel and guitarist Tom Brenneck. The Budos Band’s departure from Daptone was on good terms; the split from their long-time home base was an organic result of the band’s evolution.

“It’s just a natural growth,” says Brenneck. “We’re going further away from the sound of Daptone and into territory they probably wanted to stay away from. We’re a powerhouse in the studio; we can produce ourselves. I take the helm, but the band, they know what they want.”

As expected from The Budos Band, Frontier’s Edge resists analysis; it represents the band as they are: a contained explosion. You don’t pick apart Frontier’s Edge; you feel it all at once.

“Somehow, we wrote six songs in two days,” says The Budos’ drummer, Brian Profilio. “Tom was able to take what we were doing and put it together in a cohesive manner.”

Whether this is your first rodeo with The Budos Band or you’ve been following them throughout their two-decade run, Frontier’s Edge contains their musical universe — Afrobeat, Ethiopian music, proto-metal, any number of other streams — in microcosm.

You can pre-order a copy of The Budos Band's forthcoming Frontier's Edge EP right here.  Listen to the Morricone-esque title track below. Catch The Budos Band live at Club Soda in Montreal on July 6th since no Toronto date has been announced for their current North American jaunt – see the tour schedule below.

The Budos Band on tour

June 28 – Portland, ME – The State Theater*

June 29 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall*

June 30 – Rochester, NY – Photo City Music Hall

July 1 – Ferndale, MI – Magic Bag

July 2 – Chicago, IL – Salt Shed*

July 3 – St. Paul, MN – The Palace Theater*

July 6 – Montreal, QC – Club Soda

July 7 – Quebec City, QC - Festival D’Ete De Quebec

July 8 – Chicoutimi, QC – La Noce Saguenayl

July 28 – Yuzawa, Niigata Japan – Fuji Rock Festival

August 25 – Port Townsend, WA – The Thing Festival

*Supporting Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade

Watch Fela Kuti & Africa 70 live in Berlin, 1978

Here's Fela Kuti's full performance in Berlin with the great Tony Allen, Tunde Williams & Lekan Animashaun in Africa 70.