soviet union

It’s already pretty well known that the communist regime of the Soviet Union was extremely anti-Western music. There’s even a massive list of bands that were banned by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But according to FastCoDesign (h/t Consequence Of Sound), there were a group of Russians called “Stilyagi” (basically hipsters) who distributed […]

The Cold War-era Soviet Union was a pretty restrictive place, with laws enabling the government to control what music was being broadcasted on the radio stations. As Consequence Of Sound points out, Uproxx has unearthed a list with a title that translates to “The Approximate List of Foreign Musical Groups And Artists Whose Repertoires Contain […]