Esthetic Education

Say Goodbye to Panda and 19:84 are from different cities: Novosibirsk and Moscow. Both of them express doubts about singing in English, even if they have an enduring love for UK collectives

Kryhitka are a Kiev quartet that - until 2007 - used to be known as “Kryhitka Тsahes” (i.e., Крихітка Цахес). We mention this fact since the latter, longer name is the Ukrainian version of a short-story title from E.T.A. Hoffmann. In English it is sometimes translated as "Littl...

Recently the entertainment magazine Afisha published a list of 25 new and promising female vocalists, not only from Russia, but from beyond its borders, too.  One of the chosen few - and rightly so - was Iulia Kriukova from the band InWhite. Kriukova herself is from St Petersburg, but th...

Having recently reviewed the debut solo album by Louis Franck, it would be churlish of us not to mention the recent achievements of his band-mates in Kiev’s Esthetic Education.  Purveyors of Ukraine’s finest pop-rock, they’ve just released a new single - “With You” - on the heels of t...

Johnny Bardo, according to some promotional materials, is planning to give a series of performances in Russian mental homes.  This, and all other information about the man, is not to be trusted.  A sense of his overall unreliability can be fathomed from this recent clip on Ukrainian TV.  Usin...