"Now dub it tovarisch, like tovarisch would"

Nick: A few weeks ago, I missed a concert by gypsy-klezmer extravaganza Golem, a band known as much for its wild live improvisation as for its plaintive fiddle or creepy, oblique commentary on Eastern Bloc atrocities. Despite catching the modest Straight No Chaser, a documentary on Thelonius Monk, later that week, I couldn't shake the feeling that I'd been cheated by some malevolent deity or petty karmic glitch.

Balance will be restored on March 17 when Gogol Bordello, harbinger of Slavic craziness and general illiteracy, hits Austin. If you can't appreciate my enthusiasm, let me remind you that one verse from "Dogs were Barking" reads,

Remember things, things that are eternal,
Remember things,
You forget the things

Now, that is powerfully bad grammar. Somehow, though, the song is better for it. Oh, and let me also remind you that Gogol Bordello released an album titled "Multi Contra Culti vs. Irony."