GOGOL BORDELLO GYPSY PUNKS UNDERDOG Deuces Are Wild Rare among fine musicians is

Rare among fine musicians is one who never bit the industry weenie

and has had a major impact on the scene

and Pete Bernhard (The Devil Makes Three)

sociopolitical anxiety

with elements of both musical originality and a sense of modernity

GOGOL BORDELLO GYPSY PUNKS UNDERDOG Deuces Are Wild Rare among fine musicians isThese "gypsy punks," as the band jubilantly describes itself, were once precisely that, a spectacular clash of cultures that smashed the exuberance of Ukrainian gypsy music and the pounding rhythms and exhilarating fire of Slavic folk, with the roar of punk rock. That was then, but now globalization has got them in its grip, and Gogol Bordello set about crashing through national boundaries, reconnecting the cultural links borders have severed. If a