Friday, August 17, 2007

post soviet popular music on the internet

living outside of russia makes it hard to listen to russian popular music. but thanx to the internet there are several possibilities. here is a list of some that i know of (and if you have suggestions, leave them in the comments so we can compile a more extensive list):

3 comments:

Edd said...

russian pop-rock and russkii rok - nice

Anonymous said...

If you want to stream (play online) russian music, you have a few choices (some of them are free):

last.fm - a large collection of russian music, you can play it in radio mode

moozone.com - a large collection of russian music, you can build your own playlists

napster.com - they've got some russian music, also can build your own playlists

If you don't care about the quality and functionality, you can try public mp3 search engines like http://seeqpod.com/ or http://mp3shki.ru/

Anonymous said...

Here are some more links:
http://guzei.com/online_radio/list/1_1.html Список онлайн радио на языке "Русский" формата "Рок" (list of rock-format online radio stations in the Russian language);
http://101.ru/?an=port_groupchannels&group=6 Золотая Коллекция ("Golden collections" of famous groups and singers, including the rock-groups & -singers ДДТ, Кино (Киномания channel), Машина времени, Чайф, БГ & Аквариум and Высоцкий (a very popular (or rather famous, perhaps) Soviet bard);
http://101.ru/?an=port_groupchannels&group=5 channels Авторская Песня (pretty much bard songs), Русский Рок (Russian rock ;-), features quite a large amount of lesser known bands);
www.moskva.fm , www.piter.fm - Moscow and St. Petersburg radio stations, compilations of each song that is played on those stations (!) (grouped by artist - see letters at top of main page), user-created albums, ...!;
www.weborama.ru/#/music/genre/русский+рок - here you can either listen to Russian rock in radio format (click on the icon right above the balalaika ;-) or look for bands and listen to their songs in radio format - while being able to stop and skip songs!;
http://shalala.ru (in beta format, user-created albums);
www.bee.fm (English and Russian interfaces, user-created albums, peculiar system);
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