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Daptone Excavates Vault, Releases The Budos Band EP

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

Live Review: Sufjan Stevens and St. Vincent jam out to Phil Collins, more @ BAM Takeover 2008

St. Vincent's Annie Clark modestly announced that she would be introducing new songs during her 45-minute performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's 2008 Takeover. It's the "right venue" to "embarrass" myself at, she quipped. Her statement didn't make much sense after rolling through an untitled track with a wicked salsa beat and "Bicycle," a lilting, melodic shuffle through ornate piano arpeggios. No, she was probably referring to her closing number, in which the Takeover curator himself, Sufjan Stevens, joined her on the melodica for a charming cover of Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight." ...  read more