Noise Pop 2012: The Budos Band, Allah-las, Pickwick, Big Tree @ The Independent 2/23/12
A beautiful southern California afternoon in 1974.
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A beautiful southern California afternoon in 1974.
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Music Hall of Williamsburg -- with The Budos Band!
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The funk tends to bring the fun, and Saturday night's installment of San Francisco's 10th annual Funk Festival lured the city's dance party people out to help Afrolicious and the Budos Band transform the Mezzanine into a full-on soul celebration.
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As long as acts like the Budos Band keep making great tracks like "Unbroken, Unshaven," we're pretty much destined to keep seeing equally great videos like the one above.
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This entry was posted on Friday, April 29th, 2011 at 8:58 am and is filed under Uncategorized.
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There's a good chance that my impression of how the following businesses and people work is nothing close to reality, but it's what television and wild stretches of the imagination have given me.
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Similar to 2009 , Roy Loney & Cyril Jordan of The Flamin' Groovies will reunite on stage with "musical accompaniment" by The A-Bones for two shows in two different countries this week.
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This entry was posted on Monday, January 17th, 2011 at 8:54 am and is filed under Rollo & Grady Photos , Uncategorized .
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We have two pair of tickets to give away to R&G readers for the Budos Band this Friday at the El Rey Theatre.
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Staten Island's finest instrumental Afrobeat band went into the studio for their new album with the intention, according to their bio, of making a psychedelic, doom-rock record but admit that it came out sounding like a Budos record.
Read MoreI'm not usually a fan of mash-ups or blends like this because they typically only offer fleeting moments of entertainment.
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Staten Island funk outfit Budos Band are pretty big Wu-Tang Clan fans.
Read MoreAchingly self-conscious instrumentals for hip NYC ironists, expressly not for the most solemn kind of Fela Kuti fan.
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Looking at Staten Island Afro-funksters the Budos Band , it's hard not to make comparisons to a certain city-named band.
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The Budos Band celebrated the release of their new LP The Budos Band III at Southpaw last week (9/18), and now will wreck Bowery Ballroom on December 3rd .
Read MoreStaten Island afro soul combo The Budos Band is one of the most innovative instrumental bands in the genre alongside Nomo .
Read MoreFiguring it was time to mellow out a little bit, I headed over to the State Farm Stage, just in time to catch Budos Band .
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Self-professed "afro-funk" 10-piece The Budos Band plays a lot.
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Just about every band we love eventually undergoes a transformation-- sometimes it excites us, sometimes it pisses us off.
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"Wow...just wow. I don't know why it took me so long to experience the stunning Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings , but lawdy, I'm sure glad I went to the concert that closed out a great summer of Celebrate Brooklyn! at the Prospect Park Bandshell and finally got to witness the phenomenon that she is. Sharon Jones blew my mind with her energy, singing, dancing -- you name it, she was a solid gold MVP, James Brown heir-apparent. For 2+ hours, she and her stellar bandmates (including members of the Bushwick Philharmonic) kept the [very large] crowd on their feet, grooving along to a wonderful retro-soul/funk sound that did not let up. She was also assisted on a few songs by the charming Lee Fields ." [ Qbertplaya ] If there's one show I regret missing by going out of town this past weekend, it was definitely the Daptone one in Prospect Park. More pictures and videos from Sharon Jones 's Saturday night free Celebrate Brooklyn show ( The Budos Band opened up the night), below...
Read MoreTwenty thousand people can't be wrong, Sharon Jones is the best.
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You'll get to see the band jangle in person this fall, when they head out on tours of the UK and North America.
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The Budos Band , Staten Island, N.Y.'s finest purveyor's of the Afrobeat tradition, are set to return Aug. 10 with their third album, and they've given Spinner an exclusive preview stream of it .
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This is the last time you'll have to hear about the potential issues performing for free in a large public space presents to a relatively obscure indie band.
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The Budos Band , the self-described "Afro-funk" collective from Staten Island, has an album coming out — and as anyone who's heard of the group knows, the surrounding tour will be something to witness.
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Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet.
Read MoreA couple months ago i picked up a copy of the Daptone Records (home of Sharon Jones and the Dap kings) Compilation Daptone Gold, and while all 23 tracks are pretty good, there were a couple that had me checking the ipod to figure out who they were by.
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Once again, something appears on the cover of a Budos Band album that could kill you.
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