Their live shows are raucous and sweaty affairs, and now they're available for anyone to see. Gypsy punk trailblazers Gogol Bordello are releasing their first live DVD, Live From Axis Mundi, on October 6, and it includes a full concert, their music videos, and b-sides, plus a bonus CD of outtakes and live tracks.

Gogol Bordello's unique gypsy-punk sound grew out of the immigrant experiences of frontman Eugene Hutz, a Ukranian forced from his home by 1986's Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Hutz lived in Hungary, Austria, and Italy before settling in New York City and founding the band in 1993.

This past weekend, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park welcomed the eighth annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, with its truly eclectic bill, including Gogol Bordello, Emmylou Harris, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Elvis Costello, Iron & Wine, and Bonnie "Prince" Billy, among others. Another performer: country-lovin' indie-rocker Ben Kweller.

We here at SPIN.com wish we could stow you away to the Lone Star State this weekend for the Austin City Limits music festival. But just because you don't have a ticket to the musical extravaganza, doesn't mean you can't catch its top sets.

There's a moment towards the end of Filth and Wisdom, Madonna's directorial debut, when the character Andre, the lead singer of a band called Gogol Bordello -- who, in one of many puzzling choices made in this film, is played by Eugene Hutz, who is really the singer of Gogol Bord

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