If you haven't heard of The Budos Band, I'll forgive you.
But if you read this, listen, and don't go out and buy a Budos Band record, I'll question your judgment.
Supported by Brooklyn-Based indie label, Daptone Records, The Budos Band (along with other great talent from that label) are proving that the sounds of funk, jazz, and afro-beat are far from dead.
Their first album, self-titled, opened with the killer track, Up From the South, and explored these sounds with such skill and grace, they make you wonder why this stuff isn't still in the forefront of mainstream music today.
With their upcoming release, The Budos Band II, it looks like these guys are going to prove all the more how the jazz band kids from your high school are actually much cooler than you. Head over to their MySpace page to check them out. The first track from the new album, Budos Rising will, like all other Budos songs, have you bobbing your head and aching for some outdoor summetime concert party (where they're playing, of course), with a drink in your hand, dancing with a scantily clad gorgeous member of the opposite sex.
To put it another way, as the folks at Audiversity did, "you almost want to make a movie inspired by this soundtrack because it will inevitably be one badasssss film."
All hail the return of the Budos Band, August 7.
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