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NEW YORK - RUSSIAN PUNK'S GREATEST HITS

Hey, now that you've read all about Kevin Failure's Soviet-era influences, maybe you'd like to give them a wee little listen. That'd be nice, right? Click below for a couple selections from Egor, Yanka, and the boys of Akvarium and Kino courtesy of the inimitably exhaustive Mutant Sounds and a couple of other places. Oh, and if you're in Brooklyn this weekend, howsabout stopping by the Lucky Cat on Sunday to see Pink Reason play with a bunch of other young oddballs, eh? That would really ratchet up the ol' multimedia factor on this here li'l magazine article, now wouldn't it? Yes. Yes, it would.

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"Bespolezen" off Grazhdanskaya Oborona's 1985 album Optimizm

"Trankvilizator" off Kino's 1984 album Nachalnik Kamchatki

"Heroes," the first track off Akvarium's 1981 album Elektrichestvo (recorded live at their abortive 1980 festival appearance)

"Pridyot Voda" off Yanka Dyagileva's final album Stid i Sram