Imagine Kurt Weill chewing sausages with the Residents, underneath the Williamsburg Bridge, while watching a Russian wedding dance -- and you have some approximation of Barbez, Brooklyn's one-of-a-kind post-cabaret punk chamber ensemble. Provoked by music like Slavic folksongs, Argentine tango, post-war classical, and pre-MTV punk, Barbez wrings these disparate worlds into the band's own unique soundscape. As Time Out New York said, "The old world meets art rock in this Brooklyn band, which melds instrumen...   [ read more ]

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There is apparently a musical scene in New York known as ethno-punk-cabaret. It includes such bands as the Dresden Dolls, Gogol Bordello, and Barbez, groups whose influences include everything from Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill to Swans and Balkan folk music. If you didn't know about the scene from which it springs, though, you might simply hear Barbez as a band that appropriates Russian folk song, turn-of-the-century classical music, and post-punk rock & roll with equal facility, and that by doing so manages...   [ read more ]

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There was a time when Brooklyn, like Queens and the Bronx, was the butt of jokes among born-again neo-Manhattanites. While true New Yorkers never felt that way -- they knew all along that Brooklyn had a lot of character -- the smug, hipper-than-thou, pseudo-sophisticated neo-Manhattanites who had moved to the Big Apple from small-town America loved to carry on about how Brooklyn and Queens weren't cosmopolitan enough for them. But times have changed, and in the Big Apple's ultragentrified post-{%Rudy Giuli...   [ read more ]

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