Gogol Bordello

Ilan Ramon documentary airs tonight An Article of Hope, a documentary that will be broadcast on Channel One on January 31 at 9:30 p.m., chronicles…

What do you get when you take a 1980s Hebrew classic, cross it with gypsy folk music and klezmer, stir in some Eastern European tunes and season with…

If it’s Tuesday, this must be Vienna. Ori Kaplan is truly a citizen of the world – the saxophonist for the Balkan Beat Box was born and raised in…

For the past two years Nu Med, Balkan Beat Box’s last album, was my ultimate upper. The minute I played it on my MP3 I would jump up and down like a…

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The Barby, Tel AvivDecember 20"There was never any good old days, they are today, they are tomorrow," sang Eugene Hütz at the Barby on Sunday night,…

Playing with Rami Fortis and Yirmy Kaplan in the 1990s didn't prepare Israeli guitarist Oren Kaplan for the enveloping musical and physical presence…

Gogol Bordello is like a mini-United Nations, except that its members actually get along and really accomplish something - like creating a manic…

The Lower East Side Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello will play in Tel Aviv this coming December. The band's core members originate from Eastern…

People may think of documentary films as dour and depressing, but this year's lineup at DocAviv, the international documentary film festival in Tel…

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