Los Sospechos are basically The Budos Band with the kind of bold flavor they enjoy in … Albuquerque! Depending on the specific description/press release being offered, this band consists of either members of the Budos Band joined by new faces or is just members of the Budos Band under a different name. The music certainly sounds Budos-ish, albeit there is an extra touch of the White Sands in the mix. Either way, it’s good. The two songs are taken from the Postales soundtrack.

DOWNLOAD: Los Sospechos – Jano’s Revenge

DOWNLOAD: Los Sospechos – Mirror Door

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The Budos Band has a new album The Budos Band III out in August, here is the track that Daptone leaked as a sneak peek.

Download: The Budos Band – Unbroken, Unshaven

Click below for more info on the album and tour dates.

It’s official, people. On August 10, 2010, Daptone Records will release The Budos Band III, the long-awaited follow-up to 2007′s The Budos Band II. Conceived during weekly, beer-fueled writing sessions in their dank Staten Island rehearsal space, sharpened to a fine point on the road – more than 150 live gigs over the last two years – and recorded during an intensely productive 48 hour period in January 2010, The Budos Band III is chock full of the type of tough sonic nuggets that have long earned The Budos Band the title, “the quintessence of Staten Island soul.”

The Budos Band III Tracklisting:

1. Rite of the Ancients
2. Black Venom
3. River Serpentine
4. Unbroken, Unshaven
5. Nature’s Wrath
6. Golden Dunes
7. Budos Dirge
8. Raja Haje
9. Crimson Skies
10. Mark of the Unnamed
11. Reppirt Yad

The Budos will be hitting the road hard this summer in support of the new record, starting in June and running through September 2010. Covering the U. S. and Canada, the band is performing in intimate night clubs to high profile festivals including Celebrate Brooklyn! in Prospect Park, Bumbershoot, Millennium Park in Chicago, Outside Lands in San Francisco, and multiple jazz festivals in Canada.

Tour Dates:
6/11 Rocks Off Concert Cruise NYC
6/27 Jazz Festival – Calgary, AB
6/29 Jazz Fest – Saskatoon, SK
6/30 Jazz Festival -Winnipeg, Manitoba
JULY
7/11 Bloomington, IN Bluebird
7/12 Chicago, IL Millennium Park
7/13 Ann Arbor, MI Blind Pig
7/15 Quebec City, QC Quebec City International Summer Festival
7/16 Ottawa, ON Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest
7/17 Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace
7/21 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda’s
7/22 Harrisburg, PA The Abbey Bar at ABC
7/23 Floyd, VA Floydfest
7/24 Washington, DC Black Cat
AUGUST
8/7 Brooklyn, NY Celebrate Brooklyn! @ Prospect Park Bandshell
8/12 Los Angeles, CA Levitt Pavilion
8/13 Pasadena, CA Levitt Pavilion
8/14 San Luis Obispo, CA Downtown Brew
8/15 San Francisco, CA Outside Lands @ Golden Gate Park
8/17 Phoenix, AZ Sail In
8/19 Santa Fe, NM Santa Fe Brew Co
8/22 Dallas, TX Granada
8/24 Oklahoma City, OK Conservatory
8/25 Kansas City, MO Record Bar
8/27 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
8/28 Boulder, CO Fox Theater
8/31 Salt Lake City, UT State Room
SEPTEMBER
9/1 Boise, ID The Grove Plaza
9/2 Eugene, OR W.O.W. Hall
9/3 Portland, OR Dante’s
9/4 Seattle, WA Bumbershoot

I finally have to admit it. I hate R&B music, not in that annoying former Phish fan now classic soul fanboy sort of way where they hate all the “current” shit but love the classic soul sound. Where I really couldnt give a fuck about what artist is using autotune and making a song with tired sexual metaphors for the jr. high set. No, No my blood boils with contempt for the soul revivalists. Don’t get me wrong, I have put in time, played the roll, etc. I used to make the 90 minute mix tapes in college that had a well placed Jodeci song for, if timed correctly, finishing up with the woman i was making love on. I got those best of Al Green CDs when I used to scam music from the Columbia Record Club. I have listened to the orginals versions of the songs that were sampled to make great rap songs. I got the soundtracks to the blaxplotation era movies, I even tried my hand at the new soul revival acts and you know what, I just dont like them. They are talented as shit, no question but they make some contrived ass bullshit, that sounds dated as fuck in the same way Big Bopper, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Jimi Hendrix do.

The content sucks dick and gets even sadder when you consider that almost all of these people are in their late 30s/early 40s and still upset that their man is a dog, or is constantly checking out some other chick. Really? you havent figured this out yet? Howsabout you shut the fuck up and either date the nerd fuck at your office that will placate your oversized ego, or just grow the fuck up and realize that guys like to look at women, no matter their age, just as the get older they act on it less because lets face it, most women are major fucking headaches. Also where do you get off with the whole “you let a good thing go” routine? Apparently every guy or gal you date makes the same call. My guess is the problem’s with you, so take a long hard look in the mirror and maybe write a song called “I’m only good for having sex on for a short period of time because I have a grating personality” Catchy title right? The funniest occurance is when they write a song about their family not liking their current significant other, well as we see from the tracklist and your track record you have shitty taste, so maybe check in with what they are saying and try a new direction you moron.

Anyway, despite my hatred of all things R&B, I am reviewing this new Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings because I know a lot of people like this shit. Please note that the above rant was completely inspired by the insipid content on this fuck of an album.

Daptone recently released Daptone Gold, a collection combining some of their biggest hits with obscurities and unreleased material. The compilation is up to the high standard set by previous releases, however devout followers of the label likely already have a good amount of material presented. By the same token it’s also good way for neophytes to get familiar with some of the more notable items in their catalog.

Here are a few of the tracks that caught my ear (keep in mind that this whole collection is solid, what I’m posting is more skewed to my personal preferences)

Lee Fields with Sugarman and Co. – Stand Up

Lee Fields’ My World is by far my favorite album of this year, so I was glad to see several tracks from him included in this release. This one is probably my favorite of them.

Sugarman And Co. – Down To It

The group that backs Lee Fields on Stand Up comes through with an instrumental soul/funk excursion with a mood so dangerously sleazy it could be used to soundtrack an orgy of Bob Guccioni vs multiple hookers happening in the middle of 42st street in NY circa 1972 while pimps stab tourists with pearl-handled stilettos.

Cynthia Langston & the Gospel Queens – I need you to hold my hand

This one is a sweet gospel soul number, religiously themed and firmly on the opposite end of the moral specter from the Sugarman and Co. track.

Binky Griptite and the Mellomatics – The Stroll part 2

A b-side from a single released by the Dap-Kings’s guitarist/emcee earlier this year. Straight up instrumental funk with dueling guitar solos, good stuff.

And here’s something a little extra for the holidays. A free track by Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings called Ain’t No Chimneys In The Projects. A decidedly un-maudlin tune which is way more Cold World than Oh Tannenbaum.

Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings – Aint No Chimneys In The Projects