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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...

Basta was born in 1980 in Rostov, in a military family. In addition to secondary school, he studied in the musical. In 15 years, first tried to write rap, gathered his group. Admitted to the College of conducting department. But, after finishing the first course, left as it became clear that the scope of his interests lay far from the instituted programs. The most vital and attractive for the strikers has become hip-hop. Then it was Wu-tanc clan, Ol'dirty Bastard, Busta Rhymes and hip-hop star at the time. In 16-17 years Basta listened to a lot of different music, he...

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). .

Тартак ([tɑr'tɑk]) is a popular rapcore, punk rock and hip-hop crossover band from Ukraine. They mix these styles to produce energetic compositions and lyrics. Oleksandr (Sashko) Polozhynskyj and Vasyl Zinkevytch junior founded the group in the autumn of 1996 in Lutsk, Ukraine. The band was named by Sashko."Тартак" means woodsaw in Ukrainian. Sashko thought that "тартак" symbolized something energetic, loud, active, and hence appropriate for a band name. The group has released more than six albums. Тартак songs: Ні, я не ту кохав ([Ni Ja Ne Tu Kohav] - "But I loved another girl") and Стільникове кохання ([Stilnykove Kohannja] -...