Gogol Bordello (A strange music discovery)

So, I came across these guys via Boing Boing and was extremely impressed by what I heard. On Saturday I tracked down their latest album and have been listening to that quite a lot since then.

They call themselves gypsy punks which seems to sum it up pretty well. It is fun, loud, and very very funny stuff.

Here are some of their songs on youtube:
Start Wearing Purple
Wonderlust King

Chronicles (one) by Bob Dylan

Dylan's autobiography is an odd kind of book. I wasn't initially grabbed by it, but he sucks you in with his lyrical musings on his history, where his songs come from and his thoughts on this or that musical tradition.