Staten Island-based Afro-Soul outfit The Budos Band have confirmed plans to launch a new EP this summer. The forthcoming project, entitled Frontier’s Edge, is due out July 28 via the band’s own label, ...

The Budos Band are an "Instrumental Staten-Island Afro-Soul" outfit recording on the Daptone Records label. The band has eleven members (up to thirteen members at times) who play instrumental music ...

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 ...

You can count on one hand the number of tour dates The Budos Band has scheduled this year. Luckily, for fans of the big-band afrofunk group, one of those stops is in Aspen. "Everybody has a baby now" ...

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 ...

The Budos Band is the quintessence of Staten Island Soul. Their exciting new afro-influenced take on instrumental music has been captivating listeners from turntables as well as bandstands across the ...