Today, Gogol Bordello releases new single “Ignition” and music video starring award winning actor-director Liev Schreiber. The track is the third single from new album ‘We Mean It, Man!’, out February 13, 2026 via frontman’s Eugene Hütz’s label Casa Gogol Records.

Some music videos entertain. Others provoke. ‘Ignition’ doesn’t bother with either, it detonates. From the first pulse onward, Gogol Bordello’s latest visual offering feels less like a performance and more like a controlled riot, one where the walls shake, the rules dissolve, and nothing is asking for permission. Dropping Liev Schreiber into the middle of that storm turns what could’ve been chaos for chaos’ sake into something unexpectedly commanding.

Schreiber doesn’t play a character so much as he channels a force. There’s a physical gravity to his presence here, a clenched-jaw intensity that never winks at the camera, never breaks the spell. He moves through the video with the confidence of someone who understands that excess, when taken seriously, becomes art. That commitment matters. Without it, the video risks parody. With it, ‘Ignition’ becomes confrontational in the best possible way.

Visually, the piece thrives on volatility. The camera rarely settles, the edits refuse comfort, and the environment feels perpetually on the verge of collapse or eruption. It mirrors Gogol Bordello’s sound perfectly: a furious blend of rhythm, culture, sweat, and defiance that has always existed outside tidy genre labels. The video doesn’t illustrate the song, it argues with it, pushing the music further into the red until both seem to feed off one another.

What’s most striking is how little this feels like a stunt cameo. Schreiber isn’t there to lend prestige; he’s there to match energy. His performance sits somewhere between ritual and rebellion, grounding the spectacle while simultaneously amplifying it. In Jammerzine terms, this is where art succeeds, when intention and execution collide so hard they blur into instinct.

‘Ignition’ ultimately works because it refuses to soften itself for the viewer. It’s abrasive, theatrical, unpolished, and unapologetically alive. It doesn’t want to be liked; it wants to be felt. And by the time the final frame fades, it leaves behind the same residue as a great live show, that ringing silence where your pulse is still catching up to what just happened.

This isn’t just a video you watch. It’s one you survive, and that’s precisely the point.

About ‘Ignition’

‘Ignition’ is the third single from new album ‘We Mean It, Man!’ – the band’s “post punk revenge” produced by Nick Launay (Nick Cave, Gang of Four, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Amyl & The Sniffers, IDLES) and Adam “Atom” Greenspan (Amyl & The Sniffers, IDLES).

‘Ignition’ is a smashing anthem about lifelong friendships, deeply set in post-punk groove and inspired by Gogol Bordello’s 2023 collaboration with Bernard Sumner (New Order, Joy Division). The music video celebrates friendship between Hütz and Schreiber, which began when Schreiber cast Hütz in his 2005 directorial debut, Everything Is Illuminated. Since then, Schreiber executive produced the Vice documentary Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story, and the two have aligned creatively and politically, recently partnering with UNITED24 at Veselka. That shared history comes full circle with Schreiber starring in the music video for ‘Ignition’ a kinetic visual companion to Hütz’s latest anthem.

Liev Schreiber says, “My brother from another mother. Ridiculously insane with the heart, mind, and voice of a poet,” while Eugene Hütz comments “‘Ignition’ is about the hardest currency there is: lifelong friendships and trust—the people who will come pull you out of a ditch at 5 a.m. I didn’t want musicians’ faulty acting to obscure that, so I called my friend Liev, who is exactly the kind of actor who embodies it effortlessly and powerfully, because he’s exactly that kind of person. I value our friendship tremendously, and with the 20th anniversary of ‘Everything Is Illuminated,’ it felt like the right time for a meaningful celebration.”

The single follows the previously released gypsy punk meets hardcore title track “We Mean It, Man!,” and uplifting dancefloor crusher “Hater Liquidator.” The band just completed their legendary holiday shows and will kick off their North American tour kicking off on February 13, including a homecoming show to New York’s Knockdown Center on March 27 – tour dates below.

About Gogol Bordello

Gogol Bordello has always been a band that grows a new sonic tail. Driven by relentless techno-like beats, optimistic energy, clever socio-political lyricism, the band grounds themselves in hyper-futuristic post-punk textures that entrance crowds and new listeners alike, inviting them into their “Wild Sonic West.” Inspired by and building on their 2023 collaboration with Bernard Sumner (New Order, Joy Division) on “Solidarity,” Gogol Bordello’s new album is a bold continuation of that electrifying direction.

For ‘We Mean It, Man!’, Gogol Bordello collaborated with Nick Launay (Nick Cave, Gang of Four, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Amyl & The Sniffers, IDLES) and Adam “Atom” Greenspan (Amyl & The Sniffers, IDLES) to knock out twelve super-punchy, hook-laden songs, fusing Gogol Bordello’s raw energy with and boiled down song form with electronic layers, loops and gated-drum rhythms – a bold evolution of the experiments first explored on Gypsy Punks (produced by Steve Albini).

“No Time For Idiots” lands as a Strummer/Jones-esque riff-punk blast with a massive chorus payoff, while “Life Is Possible Again” channels sharp optimism against all odds. Their latest take on “Solidarity” again features Bernard Sumner on the Angelic Upstarts’ Solidarność-punk anthem.

Frontman Eugene Hütz says, “Gogol Bordello has always been a cross-pollinator. And ‘We Mean It Man!’ brings all our original inspirations together more than any other: punk, gypsy music, hardcore, and techno. I conceived this album as a collaboration with one of my favorite producers of all time, Nick Launay, who’s been so much responsible for the flourishing of post-punk as a genre. In terms of boiled down multimedia collage this is the best Frankenstein we’ve done since Gypsy Punks. This is our post-punk groove revenge”.

About Eugene Hütz

Eugene Hütz is a Ukrainian-born artist, songwriter, and frontman of the International punk band Gogol Bordello – a rare musical force raucously illuminating stages alongside System of a Down, Rancid, dueting with Regina Spektor and cutting albums with Rick Rubin & Steve Albini. A lifelong lover of the punk scene growing up in Ukraine, Hütz found himself where he felt he belonged, in New York’s Lower East Side in the late 90s, where he went to shows and later performed at the legendary CBGB.

Crashing at friends’ apartments and playing acoustic sets in NYC Ukrainian bars, his group steadily grew to an 8-piece multicultural band, combining Eastern, Western, and Latin traditions. Hütz is a tireless advocate for Ukrainian solidarity, partnering with Nova Ukraine and ArtDopomoga, as well as putting together benefits with Patti Smith, The Hold Steady, Suzanne Vega, and more. Hütz has also appeared in arthouse films such as Liev Schreiber’s Everything Is Illuminated with Elijah Wood, Filth and Wisdom helmed by Madonna, and last year’s Vice documentary Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story (Executive Producer Liev Schreiber).