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"Cliroy"
The newest single off of EMPIRE CENTRAL, available everywhere now.
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2023 European Festival dates announced!
This July the Pups are back at it again in Europe, with dates in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Finland, Norway, and Portugal!
New Bokanté album
Check out the video for Adjoni here, off of Bokanté's upcoming new album, History.
North American Summer Tour 2023
We are incredibly excited to announce our North American 2023 tour dates, kicking things off in San Francisco and taking the party all the way up to Montreal.
New York and Philadelphia Shows Streaming Live on nugs.net
Didn't make it to a show on the March/April US run? You can watch the New York and Philly shows, along with many more Snarky shows from previous tours, on nugs.net. If you’re new to Nugs, you can sign-up here
EMPIRE CENTRAL wins BEST CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM at the 2023 GRAMMYS®
This one is for Bernard Wright.
That it was his last professional recording makes it all the more meaningful, and I can’t overstate how much of an impact he made on us, both collectively and individually.
I’m overwhelmed by the fact that “Empire Central,” a record celebrating Texas’ incredibly rich, diverse music culture (both past and present), has been recognized by the Recording Academy. This album never could have happened without the community that formed the sound of this band, specifically our good friends in Dallas (of which there are too many to name). It was appropriate that Jason “JT” Thomas (one of our many born and bred Texans) and Nic Hard (who made the thing sound amazing on his first live-in-studio recording with us) were there to accept the award on our behalf, as well as Jamie Margulies (who managed the whole project from start to finish) and Eric Lense (who runs our label, GroundUP Music).
- Michael League, February 2023
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Chonks
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Bigly Strictness
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Coven
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Bling Bling
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Xavi
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While We're Young
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Bad Kids To The Back
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Even Us
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Tarova
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Semente
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Gemini
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Grown Folks
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Beep Box
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GØ
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The Simple Life
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Palermo
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The Big Ugly
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I Asked (featuring Becca Stevens & Väsen)
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Molino Molero (featuring Susana Baca & Charlie Hunter)
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Liquid Love (featuring Chris Turner)
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Soro (Afriki) (featuring Salif Keita, Carlos Malta, & Bernardo Aguiar)
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Sing to the Moon (featuring Laura Mvula & Michelle Willis)
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Don't You Know (featuring Jacob Collier & Big Ed Lee)
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I Remember (featuring Knower & Jeff Coffin)
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Somebody Home (featuring David Crosby)
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Be Still (feat. Becca Stevens & Väsen)
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Fuego Y Agua (feat. Susana Baca)
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Shapons Vindaloo (feat. Väsen)
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One Hope (feat. KNOWER)
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Brother, I'm Hungry (feat. Nigel Hall & NOLA International)
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Jazz + Funk + World + Soul + Pop
Snarky Puppy is truly a different kind of musical animal.
The once Texan, now New York-based quasi-collective Snarky Puppy has gone from the best-kept secret to one of the most respected names in instrumental music. Although still "underground" in many respects, the band earned its first Grammy Award in early 2014 (for Best R&B Performance), followed by two more in the subsequent years, and has earned high praise from critical stalwarts like the BBC, Village Voice, The Guardian, New York Times, and Washington Post, as well as the world’s most respected musicians, from Pat Metheny to Prince. Since 2014, their albums have topped Billboard Jazz, Billboard Contemporary Jazz, Billboard Heatseeker, and iTunes Jazz charts. The band has always used live performance as its chief form of evangelism, and over the last 8 years has maintained a more intense tour schedule than almost any band in the idiom with over 1,200 performances.