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This Boston-based college-aged quintet outclassed their postmodern contemporaries having a striking, hook-laden 1991 debut. Their sophomore recording was less amazing. Frontman Josh Clayton-Felt released a solo recording, Inarticulate Character Boy, in 1996; he passed away January 19, 2000 of testicular malignancy at age 32.

Combining components of punk, Gypsy music, and Brecht-ian cabaret, Gogol Bordello inform the storyplot of Fresh York’s immigrant diaspora through debauchery, humor, and surreal costumes. Innovator and vocalist Eugene Hütz’s flavor in music was spun away from black marketplace tapes from the PARTY and Einstürzande Neubauten in his indigenous Ukraine. …