Gogol Bordello

Low Cut Connie Is the Coolest Critically Lauded Band That You've Never Heard Of

Low Cut Connie is a band that basically defies all laws about how a band is supposed to make it in 2013. I know this because instead of sending me a CD or asking me to review a show, the duo's singer took me out to lunch and invited my band to open for them. Combustible frontman/upright pianist Ada ... More >>

Further Proof That Punk Rock Can Lead to a Fulfilling Career

Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend in L.A.

​ The weather is doing that weird thing we hate wherein there is a forty degree swing in temperature between noon and midnight. Advice: dress in layers if you're going to go out after work on Friday, or you'll be one of those poor fools standing in line outside the club in flip flops and a ta ... More >>

Music Picks: Balkan Beat Box, Cake, Ted Leo, Vanessa Paradis

Also Red Cortez, Troy Walker, Bun B and others

Coachella Lineup Announced: We Told You Odd Future Was in There!

​This is the official press release: Coachella 2011. Music. Art. Culture. Community. With the Coachella line-up announcement serving as the official kick-off to the annual U.S. festival season, festival organizers Goldenvoice can now reveal details for the 2011 Coachella Valley Music & Art ... More >>

Top 10 Best Musician Mustaches of 2010: Whiskers and Thigh Ticklers

Top 10 Best Musician Mustaches, Whiskers, and Thigh Ticklers

Tonight: Corin Tucker Band, Off!, James, Ed Harcourt, Frightened Rabbit, Bettie Serveert, Gogol Bordello, Matt Costa

John ClarkCorin Tucker Band​Corin Tucker calls her debut album "more of a middle-aged mom record." Oh, that many middle-aged moms could rock like this. The founding member of seminal riot grrls Sleater-Kinney and mother of two last week launched her first tour as the Corin Tucker Band, the tr ... More >>

Music Picks: Liz Phair, the Weepies, Tom Tom Club, Evan Voytas

Also, the Lee Boys, Klaxons, Macy Gray, Eels and others

Over the Weekend: Chicago's Lollapalooza Music Festival

​This year's Lollapalooza brought the city of Chicago their biggest music festival to date. Over three days, 240,000 people browsed the stages along the lake at Grant Park to see 130 performers ranging from Lady Gaga to Blues Traveler. Check out these photos from the recent festival, brought ... More >>

Gogol Bordello Tackles Immigration Reform in New Music Video, Eugene Hutz Explains Why and Shares Photos from the Set

Timothy NorrisGogol Bordello at The Mayan, June 2010​On June 29 gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello announced its plans to officially boycott the state of Arizona over the highly controversial SB 1070, the toughest anti-illegal immigration bill passed in America in decades -- one that requires auth ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Brian Jonestown Massacre, Stars, Peggy Sue, Gogol Bordello, Blue Rodeo, Seasons

Brian Jonestown Massacre, making friends in Australia​The Brian Jonestown Massacre got a little bit of that dance-music religion on its latest album, and why not? You can only drone for so long, right? BJM's latest album Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? (recorded last year in Iceland and Berlin, relea ... More >>

I Love You But I've Chosen Authenticity: Gogol Bordello Live at the Mayan

Scott Sterling​By Scott Sterling Gogol Bordello is beyond cool. A survey of their jam-packed show at the appropriately ornate Mayan in Downtown L.A. last night revealed an impossibly diverse crowd generally reserved for bands that have made that precarious jump from clubs and college radio ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Gogol Bordello, Athlete, Miley Cyrus, Abe Vigoda, We Barbarians, Red Cortez

via GogolBordello.comEugene Hütz of Gogol Bordello​As anybody who's witnessed their spectacles at Coachella or the Detour Festival (R.I.P.) can testify, it's all about Gogol Bordello's live shows. Nothing esteemed producer Rick Rubin could have done on the gypsy punks' recently released fif ... More >>

Music Picks: Baaba Maal, Snuffaluffagus & Rats, Carlene Carter and Friends, Country Throwdown

Also, Freestyle Fellowship, Bebe Buell, Billy Joe Shaver and others

First Listen: Mike Patton's 'Mondo Cane,' An Inventive Love Letter to Morricone

​On the eve of a high-profile Coachella appearance with the reunited Faith No More, the epically strange (and hugely prolific) Mike Patton has announced the May 4 release of his sorta-solo LP, Mondo Cane. The album rounds up 10 traditional Italian pop songs, along with one Ennio Morricone cov ... More >>

Rock Picks: Grizzly Bear, Michigan and Smiley, Meshell Ndegeocello, Aztlan Underground

Also, Ghostface Killah, Pi, Brother Ali and others

Detour Festival Goes on 'Hiatus'; Whisper Campaign Begins on Impending Amphitheatre Announcement

The LA Weekly's annual Detour Festival, which over the past three years has brought to downtown Los Angeles Basement Jaxx, Beck, Justice, Cut Copy, Gogol Bordello, the Mars Volta, Hercules and Love Affair, and dozens of other bands and DJs, is on hiatus. As in: there isn't going to be one this year. ... More >>

Rock Picks: Doves, Ceci Bastida, Carina Round, New York Dolls

Also, The Detroit Cobras, the Aggrolites, Loney Dear and others

Justice Tour: Tom Morello with Wayne Kramer, Slash, Lemmy Kilmister, Jerry Cantrell & more at Henry Fonda, March 28

View more photos in the Justice Tour slideshow. Timothy NorrisTom Morello backstage at the Henry Fonda for the Justice TourDo-gooders are easy to pick on, especially rock 'n' roll martyrs like Tom Morello who are damned if they don't and even more damned if they do. But rock's most incendiary axem ... More >>

Rock Picks: Dan Auerbach, Primal Scream, Lyrics Born

Also, the Von Bondies, Tindersticks, Dave Rawlings Machine & Gillian Welch, and others

Photos That Defined 2008: Food, Music, Cobrasnake, Nightranger and Breaking News

Have some time to kill over the holidays while avoiding chit-chat with your second cousin twice removed? Well, why not peruse L.A. Weekly's favorite photos of 2008.  We've broken down this year's most unforgettable images into several categories: Year in Photos, Year in Food, Year in Music, Yea ... More >>

AFI Fest: A to W

Our comprehensive guide to more than 40 festival titles

The Next Big Thing at the Detour Festival: Buraka Som Sistema's Kuduro Beats and the Sound of Tomorrow

The Portuguese DJ collective's rhythms have yet to catch on here, but they will

Beyond the Stage with Gogol Bordello at Detour

Gypsy punk phenomenon Gogol Bordello is known for "striking the power" on stage, but L.A. Weekly got curious as to what the band does off stage as well. Camera in hand, we followed the band around back stage for one hour prior to their performance. Click the image below for the exclusive slideshow a ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Dogtown Z-Boys, Detour Fest and Dodger Victory

This weekend was one of celebration in Los Angeles, packed with more events than we could scramble to cover. Friday night kicked off with a special VIP party at Crewest Gallery in Downtown L.A. where The Label Lab hosted the opening of the "The Z-Boy Show—Direct from the Source," featuring work fr ... More >>

Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hutz Talks Festivals, Filth and Wisdom

Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hutz. Photo by Michael Lavine. The first time I saw Gogol Bordello live in 2007 was one of those embarrassing, made for YouTube, kind of nights. I woke up the next morning on my couch, tangled in my party dress, still wearing high heels, with blood caked to my bruised kn ... More >>

Rock Picks: Detour Music Festival, Dandy Warhols, David Byrne, Die Rockers Die

Also, Henry Butler, Deerhoof, Eagle Rock Music Festival, Global Drum Project

Rock Picks: Pacha Massive, Calexico, Juliana Hatfield

Also, We the People Festival, Temple Bar farewell, Mad Juana and more

Behind the Velvet Fence

Prince of the desert; VIP couch; and other tales from Coachella

Mad Rhythms

Greetings from Suburbia

The Vegoose Music Festival pleases some of the people some of the time

Social Suicide

In Wristcutters, the afterlife is just a lousier version of real life. Oh, and Tom Waits is there

Rock Picks: Neil Young, the Pogues, Michelle Shocked

For the week of Oct. 26-Nov. 1

Rock Picks: Meshell Ndegeocello, the Sex Pistols, Weird Al Yankovic

For the week of Oct. 18 - 25

Wilco & Gogol Bordello

Photos of Gogol Bordello at the Henry Fonda Theater. Photos of Wilco at the Greek Theater Photos by Timothy Norris

Theater Reviews: Cirque du Soleil's Corteo, The Hasty Heart

Also A Doll's House, Confessions of a Catholic Child and more

The World According to Hutz

Sufism, Chernobyl, Little Richard madness and other adventures in cultural fusion with Gogol Bordello’s mastermind

Rock Picks: Los Lobos, No Age, Los Abandoned, Slayer

For the week of August 23-30

Mano a Manu Chao

Sitting down with the Out of Time Man

Coachella And the Cure for the Common Festivalitis

Rock Picks

For the week of Nov. 30 – Dec. 7

Music Picks

For the week of August 17 - 24

Crazy Gypsy

’Stache Attack ‘06

Fugee-L.A.

Fugees at Hollywood & Vine, February 6, Kanye West at Avalon, February 6

After This Show, Our Writer Did Jäger Shots With Gogol Bordello & Talked About Fugazi

Cake, Tegan and Sara, Gogol Bordello at Unlimited Sunshine tour at the Wiltern, Jan. 31

Music: Jah Wobble

And other picks for Tuesday January 31

Concerts of the Year

Satire, Punk and Politics

Or, black people don’t like George Bush

Schreiber’s Very Bright Picture

The actor-turned-director illuminates Foer with wit and compassion