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Village Voice – Sep 9, 2007
“We’re the Budos—we got a new album out and it’s got a scorpion on the front” exclaimed baritone-sax player and quasi-bandleader Jared Tankel from the cramped stage. He’s telling the truth: It’s a freakishly golden scorpion you might find crawling around the lava-spitting volcano that graced the cover of the band’s 2005 self-titled debut. These images combined with song titles like “Ride or Die” “Chicago Falcon” “King Cobra” and “rigin of Man” might lead you to peg the Budos as a gang of teenage wannabes shredding up some frustrated outer-borough death metal. Instead they’re a bunch of hirsute twenty- and thirtysomethings churning out gritty cinematic soul worthy of the most formidable go-go dancers. And while none materialized at Joe’s enough hipsters got their swerve on to suggest that if the band was allowed to spew its groove long enough some naughty shit would inevitably go down. Unfortunately a short sticky encore had to suffice forcing us to wait until the Staten Island Ferry system realizes they’ve found a perfect house band. In fact one of the best ways to experience the Budos raw is to take said ferry on a Monday night jump on the SIR to the Stapleton stop walk a half-mile or so down Bay Street—past the ratty bars pizzerias and decaying façade of the Paramount Theater—and take a right on Sands Street heading to the end of block specifically the white building with holy scripture painted on the side… Unfortunately a short sticky encore had to suffice forcing us to wait until the Staten Island Ferry system realizes they’ve found a perfect house band. In fact one of the best ways to experience the Budos raw is to take said ferry on a Monday night jump on the SIR to the Stapleton stop walk a half-mile or so down Bay Street—past the ratty bars pizzerias and decaying façade of the Paramount Theater—and take a right on Sands Street heading to the end of block specifically the white building with holy scripture painted on the side. If you don’t get your ass kicked by any number of metal bands bludgeoning the small confines of their rehearsal spaces you just might squeeze your ass into the Budos’ weekly practice abode. nce a Pentecostal church the building now houses rows of these training closets. The Budos practically need a giant shoehorn to squeeze instruments and all into theirs decorated with biker-chick pinups booze memorabilia and Christmas lights. The night I’m there the landlord is shaking the band down for several months of back rent refusing to leave until everyone offers up their beer money. nce he disappears they start woodshedding a new tune infused more with Addis Ababa than Isla de Staten.
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MTV.com – Sep 10, 2007
it’s a little toasty” Grohl noted — a cover of the Queens of the Stone Age’s “I Wanna Make It Wit Chu. ” Well maybe it would be wrong to call that last one a cover given that QTSA leader Josh Homme was performing along with the band. Alas Atlanta metal band Mastodon didn’t get a chance to play Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” with Grohl and friends but instead were joined by Homme for one of their own tracks “Colony of Birchmen” giving Dave a much-needed break after loads of vigorous headbanging. But the breather didn’t last long as the sometimes-drummer — along with Foos guitarist Chris Shiflett — re-emerged with thrash-metal legend Lemmy Kilmister for a cover of his band Motörhead’s “I’ll Be Your Sister. ” Lemmy hung around for the next song in the set “Shake Your Blood” by Grohl side project Probot and the entire evening was capped off with amazingly mustached Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse “The Devil” Hughes joining his Foo pals for a toe-tapping version of EDM’s “I Want You So Hard (Boy’s Bad News)… Alas Atlanta metal band Mastodon didn’t get a chance to play Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” with Grohl and friends but instead were joined by Homme for one of their own tracks “Colony of Birchmen” giving Dave a much-needed break after loads of vigorous headbanging. But the breather didn’t last long as the sometimes-drummer — along with Foos guitarist Chris Shiflett — re-emerged with thrash-metal legend Lemmy Kilmister for a cover of his band Motörhead’s “I’ll Be Your Sister. ” Lemmy hung around for the next song in the set “Shake Your Blood” by Grohl side project Probot and the entire evening was capped off with amazingly mustached Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse “The Devil” Hughes joining his Foo pals for a toe-tapping version of EDM’s “I Want You So Hard (Boy’s Bad News). In the Hardwood Suite where it was much cooler in comparison to the Foos suite it was models models everywhere — it basically looked liked the world’s biggest go-see.
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New York Times – Sep 9, 2007
)ARCH ENEMY This Swedish band helped popularize the ferocious but triumphal subgenre that’s sometimes called melodic death metal. “Rise of the Tyrant” should help convert a few more American fans… This is end-of-the-road music: not the end of his life but essentially the end of his long run of musical innovation. With unissued extras it’s all of his studio work from 1972 to 1975 encompassing the albums “n the Corner” “Big Fun” and “Get Up With It. ” Brave reckless forbidding funky filthy obdurate music flooded with wah-wah treatments and booming bass heavily post-edited by Davis’s producer and collaborator Teo Macero.
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MTV.com – Sep 9, 2007
A new compilation of performances from “Saturday Night Live” will be available exclusively at Target stores beginning Sunday. Live From SNL! Music Performances From Saturday Night Live the first live album from the show in almost a decade will feature performances from the past four years by the likes of Avril Lavigne Kelly Clarkson Pink Maroon 5 Foo Fighters Beck Arctic Monkeys Dave Matthews the Shins the Strokes and Franz Ferdinand. If you thought zzfest would wear out zzy sbourne for a while think again: He will support his recently released album Black Rain with an extensive trek also set to feature Rob Zombie… Iron Maiden are getting ready to “Dance With Death” again — the metal gods are pulling together another larger-than-life world tour. The band’s Somewhere Back in Time trek will hit Australia — for Maiden’s first shows there in 15 years — as well as five additional continents from February through August. The guys are expected to log 100000 miles on the tour.