The Meltdown of Russia’s Music Scene

Since the war with Ukraine, dissenting Russian bands have been “canceled” en masse, including many of the scene’s original founders. Bands who faced censorship, harassment and intimidation during the Soviet days are now experiencing the same thing some 40 years later.

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Yuri Shevchuk’s full interview with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Ncs0anYCI

A huge thank you to Nikita & Alexander for helping make this video possible:
Check out MelodyBuffet here: https://www.youtube.com/@melodybuffet1184
And Moskva-Kassiopeya here: https://moskva-kassiopeya.bandcamp.com/

List of songs featured:
0:00 Kino – Gruppa Krovi
0:48 Aquarium – Каменный уголь
3:24 Aquarium – The Art of Being Humble (Искусство быть смирным)
3:42 Time Machine – Marionettes (Марионетки)
4:28 Kino – In Our Eyes (В наших глазах)
4:39 Alisa – New Method (Новый метод)
4:44 DDT – Hippany (Хиппаны)
6:04 Hugo-Ugo – I’m So Scared (Мне так страшно)
6:25 Kombinaciya – American Boy
6:43 Tequilajazzz – Cocaine (Кокаин)
6:51 Splean – Sugarfree Orbit (Орбит без сахара)
6:57 Postcolor – Ambient Maze
7:14 Time Machine – Our House (Наш дом)
8:00 Aquarium – Train on Fire (Поезд в огне)
8:24 Aquarium – Railway Water (Железнодорожная Вода)
8:34 Paul McCartney Live at Red Square – Two Of Us
15:26 Aquarium – Rastamany iz glubinki (Растаманы из глубинки)
18:06 Bi-2 – Colonel (Полковнику)
22:47 Kino – Change (Перемен)
23:08 Polina Gagarina – Cuckoo (кукушка)
23:20 Kino – I Declare My Home a Nuclear-Free Zone
25:13 DDT – Don’t Shoot (Не стреляй)
27:33 Moskva-Kassiopeya – Express ‘69 (https://moskva-kassiopeya.bandcamp.com/)
28:06 Boris Grebenshikov – Rusty Jug of Fate (Ржавый жбан судьбы)

Cover art by https://www.partykaleta.com/

Written by 92.9 The Torch