PLANET / TIME OF THE GYPSY
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Wed – January 4, 2006
TIME OUT NEW YORK / BEST ALBUMS OF 2005
Gogol Bordello Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike (Side One Dummy). Philosophically, GB’s vision seeks to turn punks, hip-hoppers, dubheads and, yes, Gypsies into the contemporary equivalent of James Brown’s party-crazed longhairs and Afro blacks. Musically, it’s the Clash gone to the Balkans.
Sun – November 27, 2005
DAILY TELEGRAPH (UK) / PUNK FOLK BROTHER
THE ‘GYPSY PUNK’ COLLECTIVE GOGOL BORDELLO ARE ELECTRIFYING NEW YORK’S MUSIC SCENE WITH THEIR BLEND OF FRENZIED FOLK MUSIC AND ON-STAGE THEATRICS. THE BAND’S FRONTMAN, EUGENE HUTZ, TELLS CRAIG MCLEAN ABOUT HIS ROOTS IN THE UKRAINIAN UNDERGROUND, HIS NEW CINEMA CAREER AND HIS NARROW ESCAPE FROM CHERNOBYL.