If you live in New York or anywhere nearby, you know that Budos Band, the afro-funk branch of the Daptone Records family, put on a pretty damn good show. (Photo by Jacob Blickenstaff) Last week they played Manhattan’s (Le) Poisson Rouge, and the band will be sticking around its homebase for th...

Daptone Records, the Brooklyn soul label that releases albums by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and the Budos Band among others, was burglarized over the Presidents’ Day weekend, the label’s co-founder, Gabriel Roth, said in an e-mail message reported on BrooklynVegan.com. Mr. Roth wrote that nu...

Menahan Street Band went into the AOL studios last month to record a session for the Interface. Suffice it to say, shit was torn up. You can watch the not 4, but 5, songs they recorded here (along with an interview with bandleader Thomas Brenneck), or subscribe to the video podcast or mp3 podcast. M...

In case you didn’t hear, the one and only Sharon Jones and her Dap-Kings graced the stage of Late Night with Conan O’Brien yesterday, performing a very emotional, very tight rendition of “Let Them Knock,” off 100 Days, 100 Nights. The Music Slut has posted the performance. Sh...

In case you missed Monday night’s stellar performance on the Late Show w/ David Letterman on CBS, by the miracle of the Internet, Brooklyn Vegan has a treat well worth your broadband! Plus pics from last Friday’s Valentine’s / Homecoming Beacon Theatre gig c/o Brooklyn Vegan More p...

“A hard-touring, Brooklyn-based funk/soul band, The Dap-Kings mixes percussion, trumpets, guitars, organs and bass, but its key ingredient is the incredibly soulful voice of Sharon Jones. The group expertly emulates classic ’60s and ’70s funk, using only analog recording equipment ...

“Who knew that Nigeria’s Fela Kuti and Ethiopia’s Mulatu Astatke had a bunch of bastard white children running around Staten Island and playing a hybrid of their two inimitable sounds? The Budos Band–the name is a shortened version of Los Barbudos, or the “bearded ones&...