This blog introduces modern music from Russia and former Soviet states.
Keywords: Russian music, soviet, post-soviet, indie, alternative.

Recent posts

SALTO

SALTO: jazz, trip-hop, dub and electro with some Russian folk influences, from Moscow.

Kubikmaggi

Kubikmaggi is a band from St. Petersburg which does awesome avant-garde music blending jazz, rock, classical, progressive rock… They call it jazz-punk. Vocal...

Megapolis

Megapolis is a rock band from Moscow active since 1987. The most recent music is calm, adult, soft rock. Megapolis’ lyrics use much poetry from Russian poets...

Trip-hop from Novosibirsk

With this post I start exploring places further east. Concretely, Novosibirsk in Siberia. Not very widely known but actually Russia’s third most populous cit...

Peter’s blues in Billy’s band

Billy’s band: a label-and-producer-independent band playing blues, jazz, swing. They call the genre “romantic alcojazz” and sing about (mostly platonic) love...