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The Zydepunks

Like Gogol Bordello and Flogging Molly, New Orleans quintet the Zydepunks pull from two divergent styles — folk and punk — to produce music that pushes traditional limitations without abandoning its origins. The group, known because of its manic interpretations of Western and Louisiana folk music and a multilingual repertoire …

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Barbez

The term “eclectic” doesn’t quite commence to cover the diversity of styles and influences which come together within the Brooklyn-based ensemble Barbez. The band’s lineup carries a virtuoso theremin participant, a percussionist manning a marimba, and a person who conjures sounds from a PalmPilot. The group’s repertoire contains Russian folk …

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Gogol Bordello

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. …

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The Dresden Dolls

A number of noteworthy groups were active on the Boston music picture in the past due ’90s and early 2000s — groups which range from retro-soul/funk music group Superhoney towards the quirky, ’80s-minded synth pop/brand-new wave trio Freezepop towards the hard-to-categorize Moonraker (who’ve since moved to NEW YORK). However the …

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The Hold Steady

Resisting the musical styles in NEW YORK, vocalist/guitarist Craig Finn (ex-Lifter Puller) shaped the Keep Steady after shifting from Minneapolis in 2000. Attempting to catch the audio of bands like the Replacements as well as the Grifters, he recruited guitarist Tad Kubler (also ex-Lifter Puller), drummer Judd Counsell, and bassist …

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The Ministry of Wolves

The Ministry of Wolves can be an international music collective that formed to be able to soundtrack a theater production of Republik der Wölfe, a retelling from the Brothers Grimm fairy tales through the zoom lens of poet Anne Sexton’s Transformations, a assortment of poems about them. The task was …

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