Shabazz Palaces starts 2024 with “Angela” featuring Stas THEE Boss and Irene Barber. The foggy funk moves like a dispatch sent from some otherworldly military. Springy synthesized basslines fill the air as Stas and Barber riff and rap on the track. A foreign crime report comes through the song’s middleContinue Reading
Shabazz Palaces’s visual for “Bad Bitch Walking” is a moderately-paced movement of figures against a white backdrop. Ishmael Butler, Stas Thee Boss, choreographer Tanisha Scott and model Shernita Anderson are the focus of the video for the cosmic funk single. Butler’s pondering of whether to pursue an extraordinary woman while sittingContinue Reading
Stass THEE Boss just released her Voices album and it is a reinterpretation of the gospel world. She takes sounds from church and reshapes them into songs that almost neatly fall into the landscape of deep house. The mostly instrumental nine songs are contemplative and dance-worthy at the same time.Continue Reading
[youtube id=”pT0Yxq22Dho”] Stas Thee Boss introduces Shabazz Palaces before they perform a live set in the KEXP studios. They take a quick break and she interviews them about their current albums Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star and Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines. They discuss the possibility of turning the albums intoContinue Reading