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Led Zeppelin
7th July 2008, 13:24
Short Biography:

http://www.estateamonlue.it/2007/img_gruppi/gogol_bordello.jpg

Gogol Bordello is a multi-ethnic Gypsy punk band from the Lower East Side of New York City that formed in 1999 and is known for its theatrical stage shows. Much of the band's sound is inspired by Gypsy music, as its core members are immigrants from Eastern Europe. The band incorporates minor-key accordion and fiddle (and on some albums, saxophone) mixed with cabaret, punk, and dub as well as multiple languages. Phill Jupitus has once described the band as "a bit like The Clash and The Pogues having a fight... in Eastern Europe," while Kenneth Partridge of The Hartford Courant described lead singer Eugene Hütz's voice as "somewhere between that of Borat and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog".



Albums:

Voi-La Intruder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voi-La_Intruder)–1999 (Rubric Records (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubric_Records))
Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_Kontra_Culti_vs._Irony) - September 2002 (Rubric Records (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubric_Records)), 2XLP - December 2006
Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_Punks:_Underdog_World_Strike) - August 2005 (SideOneDummy Records (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SideOneDummy_Records)), 2XLP - March 2006
Super Taranta! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Taranta%21) - 10 July (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_10) 2007 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007) (SideOneDummy Records (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SideOneDummy_Records)) US #115,[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gogol_Bordello#cite_note-6) UK #67, 2XLP - July 2007
Videos:

Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_81l4DXlwM

Gogol Bordello - Wonderlust Kinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jv3b0VKec8

Gogol Bordello - Not A Crime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJlGutqFqfg

Gogol Bordello - 60 Revolutions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQSaYgAp2lw

Gogol Bordello - American Wedding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE-oHVC8H40

Links:

Official Website (http://www.gogolbordello.com/)
Myspace Profile (http://www.myspace.com/gogolbordello)
Unofficial Fan Forum (http://avenue-b.net/forum/)
Interview with Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hutz (http://www.musicomh.com/interviews/gogol-bordello_0408.htm)
Interview on BYT (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/interviews/premium-dancing-with-gogol-bordello/)
Interview with Eugene Hutz (http://www.bmoretunes.com/?page_id=33)
Interview with Tommy Gobena from Gogol Bordello (http://www.musictowers.com/news/features/interview-gogol-bordello-ta-ra-ta-ranta/)
Interview at NPR's Studio 4A (2006) with several songs performed (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5371385)

Holden Caulfield
11th July 2008, 21:37
best song on Volia is... either 'God like' for a slower one and 'Greencard Husband'

best on Underdog is... 'Undestructable'

best on Super T is... Wonderlust King or Victory or American wedding,

cant decide which one on the last one yet

Comrade B
13th July 2008, 08:35
LOVE THESE GUYS! I try to play them as much as I can on the radio show I co-host on!
Gogol is playing nonstop in my car.

Led Zeppelin
14th July 2008, 13:18
They have some pretty good songs.

Holden Caulfield
17th August 2008, 15:20
Hutz is giving an interview in TIME magazine this issue,

why Eugene? why do yo do this?!!! first madonna and now this?

Foldered
19th August 2008, 10:28
Gogol Bordello is epic. I'd love to see them live.