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Two years after releasing the Frontier's Edge EP, The Budos Band are returning with their first full-length since 2020's Long in the Tooth. Titled simply VII, the new album sees them doing what... more

Frontier's Edge is the new EP by the fiery, energetic, genre-defying group The Budos Band. Their first release after departing their two-decade-long home of Daptone Records and joining Diamond West... more

Merging the groovy Afro-funk of their early stuff with the Black Sabbath heaviness and psychedelic trippiness of their more recent recordings, the Budos Band bring darkness to the dance floor with... more

The pride of Staten Island return with their fifth album, an expansive fusion of high-octane rockers, Ethiopian rhythms, throwback Afro-soul and spacey groovers powered by both organ and guitars.... more

This utterly unique mélange of Afrobeat, psychedelia and proto-metal (a la Black Sabbath) arrived in 2014. This one got a lot of people talking: "The Sticks," "Aphasta," "Black Hills," "Tomahawk,"... more

A different side of the Daptone sound was this instrumental combo, who mixed African music with the throwback sounds of Southern soul. This 2005 album features grooves both heavy and hypnotic: "Up... more