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Youngblood Brass Band
Youngblood have headlined countless tours worldwide, selling out dates in over 20 countries. Their festival résumé reads like a list of the most important music events in the world: Roskilde, Glastonbury, Lowlands, Pukkelpop, SXSW, CMJ, North Sea Jazz,WOMAD, ad infinitum. Incendiary live shows have secured the band’s status as an incredible group to witness, whether in an intimate club setting or in front of thousands on a festival stage.
YB’s debut skiva ‘Unlearn’ was released independently in , featuring collaborations with Talib Kweli (spawning the underground smash ‘Ya’ll Stay Up’), Mike Ladd, DJ Skooly, and Frank Zappa vocalist Ike Willis. The attention garnered led to a signing with Ozone Music NYC, the revolutionary avant-hip hop label that introduced the poetic talents of Saul Williams, Company Flow (El-P), Antipop Consortium, and Mr. Lif, among others. The acclaimed follow-up (and Ozone debut), ’s ‘center:level:roar’, saw the grupp globetrotting to so
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Youngblood Brass Band flouts convention in an ecstatic, raucous, incendiary fashion, taking the form of a New Orleans brass band and morphing it into a punked-out hip-hop behemoth of groove and purpose. The ten-member ensemble, born in Madison, Wisconsin, has been unleashing their crash course in genre-bending worldwide since What other band can claim the honor of having their music spun by DJs like Questlove (The Roots), working with hip-hop luminaries like Talib Kweli, having their original compositions performed by student marching bands/jazz ensembles around the globe, and still not be out of place at a dance-punk festival?
YBB has headlined countless tours in the States and abroad, selling out dates in over 20 countries. Their festival résumé reads like a list of the heaviest music events in the world: Roskilde, Glastonbury, Lowlands, Pukkelpop, SXSW, CMJ, North Sea Jazz, WOMAD, ad infinitum. White-hot live shows secured the band’s status as an incredibl
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One Lard Biskit Brass Band is a frankly shocking name for a band (“we were somehow convinced that every good band name had a number and a food item in it, but I can’t think of a single band, there’s no ‘Sandwich ’”), so thankfully vocalist, drummer and general band manager David Henzie-Skogen saw the light and the Youngblood Brass Band was born with a new direction. “The sounds were coming out of New Orleans’ brass band music but also incorporated all of the influences of things that are important to us.” And that turns out to be not just brass music, but a diverse range of other genres too. “I think people would be surprised if they looked at our personal playlists, very little of it is brass band music. That’s just in our blood, no pun intended. We usually look elsewhere for inspiration, there’s a lot more hip-hop influence, maybe a little more aggressive punk vibe, it has occurred to us that it would be disingenuous to just try to mimic what NOLA brass bands do, being that as muc