The USSR did its best to control culture and make it serve the needs of the state. However, culture, like life itself, finds a way of spreading, evolving, and surviving, often against all odds. Rock music had, by the 60s and 70s, become a cultural phenomenon in Europe and America and its spread to the […]
Late-Soviet Siberia fell in love with punk. While rock bands like Kino and Alisa were making waves in Leningrad, the major industrial and scientific centers of Central Russia produced an underground punk genre that grasped audiences in the USSR and post-soviet diaspora. The cities of Tyumen, Omsk, and Novosibirsk were the centers of this movement. […]
Alyona Savranenko is better known by her stage name, alyona alyona (written in Latin characters and without capitals). She is a Ukrainian rap performer who, although with a background in Russian-language rapping, has greatly boosted the growing genre of Ukrainian-language hip-hop. In the two years since she exploded onto the scene, alyona alyona’s fame has […]
