Video: The Budos Band

Sophomore album from Staten Island instrumentalists (and Dap-King labelmates) is a hulking freight of Afrobeat-tinged funk.

• The Budos Band - Chicago Falcon

Okay, so not everyone makes a snap-connection between God's creatures and their Decepticon-counterparts, but I happen to be one of them, and when I heard The Budos Band's latest was homage to one certain little anthropod, those little green lights that I call my neurons fired off Scorponok . Just look at those claws... chilling . Not nearly as chilling as the up-tempo Stanton Island afrobeat this eleven piece can pull off with their arsenal of drums, bass, guitar, electric organ, trumpets, sax, bongos, congas, tambourine, guiro, clave, shekere and cowbell. If they [...]

• Budos Band - Budos Rising
• Budos Band - Scorpion