In August 2010 the band was rumored to participate in the Ukrainian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011, but the band soon denied this. They have mentioned Manu Chao, Fugazi, Zvuki Mu, Karamelo Santo, Sasha Kolpakov and The Clash as influences as well. In an interview with NPR, frontman Eugene Hütz cites Jimi Hendrix and Parliament-Funkadelic as among the band's main musical influences. They have made appearances at numerous international festivals and toured with such diverse bands as Primus, Flogging Molly, and Cake. The band has toured tirelessly throughout Europe and America. Many of the songs on Transcontinental Hustle were inspired by Hütz's move to Brazil. On 27 April 2010 Gogol Bordello made its major record label debut with Transcontinental Hustle on Rick Rubin's American Recordings, a subsidiary of Columbia Records/Sony Music Entertainment.
In 2005 the band signed to punk label SideOneDummy Records. Gogol Bordello's first single was released in 1999, and since then they have released five full-length albums, and one EP. The band played their first show as the unofficial band at an after-hours club called Pizdetz where they became the house band and DJ Hütz became the house DJ. The band was originally titled Hütz and the Béla Bartóks, but Eugene Hütz says that they decided to change the name because "nobody knows who the hell Béla Bartók is in the United States". "Bordello", in Italian, refers to a brothel or a "gentleman's club". He also serves as an ideological influence for the band because he "smuggled" Ukrainian culture into Russian society, which Gogol Bordello intends to do with Gypsy/ East-European music in the English-speaking world. As one of the most influential writers in Ukrainian and Russian literature, Gogol paved the way for the likes of Kafka and Dostoevsky. "Gogol" comes from the name Nikolai Gogol. Gogol Bordello contributed the song "Start Wearing Purple" to the film's score. The entire group was present for one shot in which they played a brass band. The band has appeared in a number of independent films, most notably in 2005's Everything Is Illuminated in which the lead singer, Eugene Hütz, co-starred with Elijah Wood in a dramady and adventure story about the Nazi purges in Ukraine. The band incorporates minor-key accordion and violin (and on some albums, saxophone) mixed with punk and dub.
Much of the band's sound is inspired by Gypsy music. Gogol Bordello is a Gypsy punk band from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, formed in 1999 and known for theatrical stage shows and persistent touring. Another band that many Celtic punk fans love.
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