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Current.com
Repercussions of Arizona SB 1070
Arizona farmers are experiencing a crisis due to the recent departure of over 500,000 Campesinos (Farm Workers). Jose Diaz Balart, reporting on Telemundo this evening interviewed farm owners asking them exactly what they plan to do with tens of thousands of acres of peppers waiting to be harvested. One farmer reported "well we don't exactly know what we are going to do...read more
TheSoundStrike.net
GOGOL BORDELLO BOYCOTTING ARIZONA - JOIN US!
Attn Friends: Gogol Bordello are officially boycotting Arizona in response to SB 1070. Read Eugene's statement and join the fight by signing the petition at the sound strike. Immigration naturally enriches culture and human resource of any country. Just like new genes bring gusto into any genetic pool...read more
Antimusic.com
Gogol Bordello's Tommy T Goes Solo
For the past three years, Tommy T (Thomas T Gobena) has been the bass player for gypsy punk powerhouse Gogol Bordello. Tommy was born and raised in Addis Abada (Ethiopia's capital city) and the knowledge of global rhythms he brings to Gogol's sound has become part of their unclassifiable approach to music making...read more
Chartattack.com
Gogol Bordello Bassist Releasing Solo Album
Gogol Bordello bassist Tommy T will release The Prester John Sessions, his debut solo album, on Nov. 10 through Easy Star Records. Tommy T's (real name Thomas T. Gobena) disc will be available via iTunes Oct. 13. Tommy T wrote and produced The Prester John Sessions, which was mixed by Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave, Gogol Bordello)... read more
Uptownmag.com
Go-go-go, all the time
Gypsy punk collective Gogol Bordello to release live DVD and new studio album
Led by manic, mustachioed, Ukraine-born frontman Eugene Hütz, New York's genre-spanning gypsy punk collective Gogol Bordello - whose members hail from all over the globe - has gone from an underground sensation to a global phenomenon... read more
Seemagazine.com
Tommy T: He’s A Woman-Eyeser
Tommy T (né Thomas Gobena) is an Ethiopian rock star. I have never written that sentence before today. Ethiopian rock star: cross that one off the list.
Not only is Tommy T a rock star, he, along with his bandmates in Gogol Bordello, is creating one of the first legitimate multicultural rock bands. Not some thrown-together attempt at pandering to the world’s musical tastes, but honest-to-God global music... read more
Winnipegfreepress.com
Nine-piece multicultural band brings politics to the party
An Ethiopian, a Ukrainian and an American walk into a bar... and a helluva party breaks out.
That's the simple way to sum up a not-so-simple band, Gogol Bordello, a nine-member ensemble featuring musicians from seven different countries who fuse Ukrainian folk melodies with Slavic and Western rock instrumentation to create the ultimate party music: gypsy punk... read more
Repercussions of Arizona SB 1070
Arizona farmers are experiencing a crisis due to the recent departure of over 500,000 Campesinos (Farm Workers). Jose Diaz Balart, reporting on Telemundo this evening interviewed farm owners asking them exactly what they plan to do with tens of thousands of acres of peppers waiting to be harvested. One farmer reported "well we don't exactly know what we are going to do...read more
TheSoundStrike.net
GOGOL BORDELLO BOYCOTTING ARIZONA - JOIN US!
Attn Friends: Gogol Bordello are officially boycotting Arizona in response to SB 1070. Read Eugene's statement and join the fight by signing the petition at the sound strike. Immigration naturally enriches culture and human resource of any country. Just like new genes bring gusto into any genetic pool...read more
Antimusic.com
Gogol Bordello's Tommy T Goes Solo
For the past three years, Tommy T (Thomas T Gobena) has been the bass player for gypsy punk powerhouse Gogol Bordello. Tommy was born and raised in Addis Abada (Ethiopia's capital city) and the knowledge of global rhythms he brings to Gogol's sound has become part of their unclassifiable approach to music making...read more
Chartattack.com
Gogol Bordello Bassist Releasing Solo Album
Gogol Bordello bassist Tommy T will release The Prester John Sessions, his debut solo album, on Nov. 10 through Easy Star Records. Tommy T's (real name Thomas T. Gobena) disc will be available via iTunes Oct. 13. Tommy T wrote and produced The Prester John Sessions, which was mixed by Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave, Gogol Bordello)... read more
Uptownmag.com
Go-go-go, all the time
Gypsy punk collective Gogol Bordello to release live DVD and new studio album
Led by manic, mustachioed, Ukraine-born frontman Eugene Hütz, New York's genre-spanning gypsy punk collective Gogol Bordello - whose members hail from all over the globe - has gone from an underground sensation to a global phenomenon... read more
Seemagazine.com
Tommy T: He’s A Woman-Eyeser
Tommy T (né Thomas Gobena) is an Ethiopian rock star. I have never written that sentence before today. Ethiopian rock star: cross that one off the list.
Not only is Tommy T a rock star, he, along with his bandmates in Gogol Bordello, is creating one of the first legitimate multicultural rock bands. Not some thrown-together attempt at pandering to the world’s musical tastes, but honest-to-God global music... read more
Winnipegfreepress.com
Nine-piece multicultural band brings politics to the party
An Ethiopian, a Ukrainian and an American walk into a bar... and a helluva party breaks out.
That's the simple way to sum up a not-so-simple band, Gogol Bordello, a nine-member ensemble featuring musicians from seven different countries who fuse Ukrainian folk melodies with Slavic and Western rock instrumentation to create the ultimate party music: gypsy punk... read more
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