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Ленинград is a fourteen-piece ska band from Saint Petersburg, Russia formed in 1997. The band's frontman is Сергей Шнуров (Sergey Shnurov). In 2005, its music was featured in the film Everything Is Illuminated, starring Elijah Wood. The band, and especially its leader, Shnurov, has long been famous for its catchy beats and irrepressibly bad language, somehow managing to be one of the top bands in Russia despite almost never being clean enough to earn radio play and despite its live concerts being banned in Moscow. In 2008 Leningrad disbanded. Its former members run Рубль and Spitfire. The band reunited in...

In spite of the rather short biography yet, the group "AntytilA" has already had time to obtain quite extensive popularity in Ukraine. Especially, sure, – among young people, and it is easy to understand. The thing here is not only the predominantly easy, lyric texts. And not only that zeal that practically any fresh music has, regardless of its quality. It seems that it is quality that the group regards attentively, it traces fashionable tendencies in music – or just feels them well in advance (and that would be the best option). .

Сплин (Splean, also transliterated as Splin and Spleen) is a rock band from Saint Petersburg, Russia founded by Aleksandr Vasilev in 1994. They also released their debut album in '94. Although recently, The band has been experimenting more frequently. The current Splin is quite different from the band at the beginning. For nearly twelve years, they have remained one of the most popular rock bands in Russia and the former Soviet Union. The band was formed when lead singer Aleksandr Vasilev, while working in at a theatrical institute, was introduced to keyboardist Nikolai Rostovskiy. The two formed a band, and...

Tol is an alternative/rock band from (based in) Kyiv, Ukraine. May, 22nd, 2003 was the day, when chain-reaction of TOL (short for trinitroTOLuene) massive blasts begun. Five young musicians from different cities of Ukraine triggered it. The name TOL reflects the very essence of the explosive and heavy alternative music produced by the band. Their lyrics are about the external struggles people have in both the private world of one’s Ukrainian language and Russian experiences. This is some of what Prozorov writes. TOL’s lyrics don’t contain a normal lexicon or vulgarity, but rather a unique expression of one’s emotions. Music...

Lubo mades his first steps in music by playing piano, which is a present from his parents. He proceeds to play drums, and after that his artistic soul reaches for the brush and sculptures. In 1993 Liubo is accepted by the Artist Academy of Sofia. Before 2000 Lubo and the band Mr. White have one single - "Neshto smeshno" (Something Funny), published in a compilation. From 2000 to the summer of 2007, Lubo is the frontmen of the band "Te" (They). The warm feeling of Lubo's voice wins the public and contributes to the success of "Te". In 2001-2007 the...