Music on Thursday at SXSW: Psych, Wayne Coyne and The Screamin' Eagle of Soul

By Ryan Bort at 3:30 PM on March 15, 2013

Even if you've already seen him once, even if you've already seen him a thousand times, when the Screamin' Eagle rears his head back and let's one fly it's as if you're hearing it for the first time.  read more

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Video Premiere: Menahan Street Band - "Ivory and Blue"

By Ryan Bort at 10:00 AM on October 23, 2012

The Menahan Street Band is probably most commonly known as the “house band” for Dunham Records. They’ve played with Sharon Jones (as the Dap-Kings), Amy Winehouse and Charles Bradley, and their soulful sound has come to define the Brooklyn label....  read more

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Daptone Excavates Vault, Releases The Budos Band EP

By Henry Freedland at 3:00 PM on May 6, 2009

There's something pretty undeniable about the Daptone Records 11-piece outfit The Budos Band. Even if the Staten Island group didn't have some sheer strength in numbers or instruments (and even if their sounds didn't careen off Afrobeat and funk into soul and swing), their music provides a lesson in groove and feel for all who behold it. (And if those sounds like terms Tito Puente and Charles Mingus might have used in heated argument with one another, well, there's a reason for that.)...  read more

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Daptone Records gets robbed

By Rachel Dovey at 2:27 PM on February 18, 2009

It's a bad week for the music industry. Chicago's Touch and Go Records just announced its closure and now, Brooklyn soul label, Daptone Records, has sent word that it was broken into and robbed Sunday night....  read more

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The Menahan Street Band: Make The Road By Walking

By Sean Edgar at 12:00 PM on October 17, 2008

Golden tones shine on Brooklyn preservationists' debutThe Menahan Street Band, named for the Bushwick address where producer Thomas Brenneck lives and recorded this album, provides a priceless entry into Daptone Records' gospel of modern jams with a collection by members of the Budos Band, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, El Michels Affair and Antibalas. This debut LP of steam-of-conscious instrumentals presents an inviting take on the genres of funk and soul with the most unobtrusive delivery imaginable: The gentlemen sand their sound into smooth, minimal waves of swelling horns, tumbling bass lines and ricocheting wah-pedal beats that fade in so...  read more

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Daptone Records teams up with Scion for sampler

By Cristina Martin at 11:59 AM on November 28, 2007

You've heard Band of Horses in Ford commercials and Wilco in advertisements for Volkswagen. Yes, car companies have begun love indie music too. Now, collaborations are reaching past the automotive ads, and steering into the recording studio. Scion, a member of the Toyota Motor Sales family, has partnered up with Daptone records to help sponsor and produce a remix album. The compilation will feature revamped tracks from various artists that are on the Daptone label, such as Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings and the Budos Band, jazzed up by the likes of Mark Ronson, Kenny Dope and Mad Professor....  read more

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