I Drug Moi Gruzovik / И Друг Мой Грузовик

These four new net-singles from Moscow, Rostov-na-Donu, Dnipropetrovsk, and Komsomolsk-na-Amure differ greatly in style. When it comes any audible worldview, however, a large overlap is evident.
Three bands from Moscow, Perm, and Dnipropetrovsk mark three different stages of a musical career. They represent an unbridled romance, early struggles with audience affection, and a return to life away from the limelight
Recent events in Moscow have led some to question the "rebellious" nature of Russian rock music - and whether it even exists any more. If not, what are the new values that might replace it?
FARW are from the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk. Founded in the seventeenth century, Slaviansk would grow to become a center of two very contradictory activities: heavy industry and health resorts. An equally vigorous combination of opposites can be heard in our band's name. Virtually unpron...
Today marks the third occasion that we've written about Ukrainian funk-rockers I drug moi gruzovik ("My Friend Truck & I").  The reason for doing so is a happy one: the release of an album, entitled Zhivot (tr. "Stomach" or "Gut"). It first appeared not long after the New Year and is therefor...
The portal known as "Indiecator" has just released their second sampler or web-based compilation in order to bring thirteen bands into the public view.  In doing so, in continues a long and important tradition from the West.  After all, the socialist music industry wasn't exactly operating accor...
Negruzoviki is an offshoot of Ukrainian funk-rockers I drug moi gruzovik.  The latter band's name is a broken phrase that translates roughly as "...And my friend Truck."  The back story here involves a long and fairly uninteresting discussion of nicknames, so we'll spare you the tedium. In...

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Audio

I Drug Moi Gruzovik – Radiostantsii (Radio Stations)
I Drug Moi Gruzovik – Mir dlia khudykh (A World for the Thin)
I Drug Moi Gruzovik – Papa igraet na bas-gitare (Dad Plays the Bass)
I Drug Moi Gruzovik – Molodezhi (Young People)
I Drug Moi Gruzovik – Urok (A Lessson)

Video

Papa Igraet na Bas-Gitare (Dad Plays Bass Guitar)
A World for the Thin