Megapolis / Мегаполис

On May 19, Megapolis released their first studio album for fourteen years, "Supertango." Band leader Oleg Nesterov sketched the general context for this long-awaited event: "The album took exactly one year to record - over four long studio sessions, arranged as they might have been in classic Ko...

Yesterday a three-track EP appeared from the ramshackle St Petersburg outfit known as Samoe Bol'shoe Prostoe Chislo (The Biggest Prime Number, aka СПБ4,  aka Sbp4orchestra, etc...). Released under the name of "Zhivi khorosho!" (Live Well!), the EP's title would perhaps lead listeners to antici...

Parney are a hard-working, well-established foursome from St. Petersburg; their name (which, arguably, could be better spelled as "Parni"), translates as "The Guys" or "The Lads." There are two, if not more, reasons for this deliberately dull or unimaginable moniker. The first is that the band h...

Last week, within the framework of Moscow's International Open Book Festival (held in the above building), a series of discussions were hosted by the entertainment magazine Afisha, dedicated to the nation's changing cultural landscape.  These changes, needless to say, are primarily being effec...

Oleg Nesterov has remained one of the most important people in Russian popular music, a constant source of innovation and eager support for young bands on his "Bullfinches" label (Snegiri). On March 29 he published his first novel, entitled "The Skirt." In a move fitting his reputation for origi...