Rivushchie Struny / Ривущие струны

For a band designed to make a lot of noise, Elektra Monsterz can be hard to find. Their MySpace page contains no information about their other resources on LastFM, Tumblr, and Vkontakte... most of which are fundamentally barren, in any case. Only the latter includes anything resembling useful an...

Buried in the PR materials for Moscow trio Kerosin is a modest claim that no other band in Russia is more imbued with the spirit of rock and roll.  In their eyes this means the ensemble consists of three individuals "who really live for the music.  They're ready to die for it, even!  There's...

Earlier this year, the Moscow club IKRA held a small festival entitled "Back to the CBGB" in honor of the NY club (below) that ran from 1973 until 2006.  During that time it gave birth to a spectacular generation of musicians, including - among the more famous - The Ramones, Talking Heads, Patt...