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asked a prominent american scholar when their new book about russian popular music from the late 80s to the present day will be out

apparently it's delayed several months because the (russian) publisher like, actually needs to sit down with the relevant organs and confirm what they need to strike from the original text to avoid getting labeled an inoagent or whatever

it's a book about fucking music culture goddamnit (okay, there's a bit of academic discourse about whether the more ah... state-friendly acts are complicitly building fascism, but still). i hate this world

anyway, the "the best rap group in china" bit from the SMZB docu is evergreen relevant

Наадя's new single, Тёмные места, is the first bit of wartime russian art to make me cry

for context, Gritskevich is one of the few musicians that haven't left the country, i think in no small part because she's raising a 2-3yo kid atm and it'd presumably be difficult to just up and leave

that is ah... a lot of anguish, confusion, and uncertainty

props to the visual direction and cinematography peeps too, that's some damn good visual storytelling and creative dancing around the censors

dat feel when u release a single titled oni (they) and make your twitter bio кейто энби k a t e n v

that is a good b/v pun lol

politkovskaya's a small corner of hell is maybe not the best companion read for gdq

but my brain decided i needed to do it anyway soooooo

i have paused it and switched to kassenova's atomic steppe which is... slightly less depressing?