Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The basic Budos formula remains the same—snaky tendrils of guitar, smoky ribbons of electric organ, and hard-hitting rhythms ...

More than 20 years into its career, the Budos Band is touring in short bursts and keeping things loose and relaxed. “When we’re down (in Atlanta), that’ll be part of a weeklong run, and I think that’s ...

Many bands like to claim that they can’t be categorized or summed up by a genre name. But few acts are as truly, adventurously singular as The Budos Band. The Brooklyn-based nine-piece instrumental ...

The album cover for the Budos Band’s 2005 self-titled debut features an active volcano gushing out lava as it spills downhill. At the time of its release, the group was fresh to the scene with a ...

This week's show is made possible by a generous amount of existential anxiety. This includes the ego-destroying rock anthem "I Don't Matter At All," from the Toronto band Pkew Pkew Pkew, and an epic ...

Lucy Dacus has announced summer dates for her Forever Is a Feeling Tour, kicking off in Philly on July 15 with Julien Baker & TORRES, and also including shows with Jay Som and Julia Jacklyn. Before ...

Starting Tuesday, June 23rd, Hudson Square will be another one of the spots in NYC with a free weekly music series — it joins free programs at Stuy Town Oval, Madison Square Park, Williamsburg ...

The unpolished diamond of Daptone Records, Staten Island, N.Y.'s The Budos Band left the mostly-full State Room's attendees sweaty and begging for more.--- Formerly Barbudos Band—"bearded ...

The Budos Band's sound is unmistakably its own: heavy bass lines repeat over aggressively funky drumbeats while horns play boisterous melodies and a West African shekere gourd instrument keeps steady ...

The Budos Band began as an instrumental jam band, and their seventh album—arriving five years after their last full-length, Long in the Tooth (playfully referred to as the group’s entry into middle ...

The Budos Band is an American instrumental band from Staten Island, New York, formed in 2005. AllMusic describes the group as a "doom rock Afro-soul big band with a '70s touch" that joins "musical ...