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Any post about drinking songs in Russian must start with this masterpiece: I’m in love with the пиво by Dadas Man. 😉 (Not seeing the YouTube videos? Click here.)   We’ll stick with beer for a while, moving on to the … Read More

Soviet Rock Bands You Should Know, Part 2 Кино It’s impossible to learn Russian and not know about Victor Tsoi. Totally impossible. You’ve probably heard it all before: Soviet rock star, frontman of the band Кино, half-Korean, killed in a … Read More

Soviet Rock Bands You Should Know, Part 1 ДДТ Okay, those glasses- I swear the lead singer of this band was my 7th grade math teacher. But if you look beyond thirty six years of frightening fashion choices, you’ll discover … Read More

  Our apartment walls have heard a LOT of Russian music over the years. In the beginning it was just my husband, listening to the music he’d brought with him from Ukraine. I’d go along with whatever he had playing, … Read More

Russian hip hop has the same issues that both American hip hop and 7th grade have: oh man, guys, we gotta look cooler than everybody else. Try harder to act cool, чуваки! Case in point-     Ugh, I’m so … Read More

Take a listen to this silly but catchy song that hit Russian airwaves in 2006. It’s one of several remakes (including a slightly-off Dutch version) of the Persian-English song “Temptation”. The original version seems to be more about love than … Read More

Sergey Babkin was half of the musical duo 5’nizza (read: пятница, Friday) and is still quite the local celebrity in his birthplace of Kharkiv, Ukraine. Even though the group disbanded almost a decade ago, I’d noticed his face plastered all … Read More