Russian Rock. New Era. Photographs. Interviews. Documents

Joanna Stingray – an American singer, music producer, and public figure, one of the significant personalities and promoters of Soviet and post-Soviet rock culture in the West. Joanna Stingray about the new album Russian Rock: New Era: The late 80s... was a wonderful time in Russia. Glasnost was in full swing, people in the streets seemed noticeably freer and happier. A new era also arrived in Russian rock – the period of the underground is now a part of history... A multitude of new interesting bands took the stage of the Rock Club, the emergence of which I missed in 1987 due to my status as an enemy of the state and the impossibility of coming to Russia. Therefore, it was especially pleasing to see that life in the Rock Club and on the rock scene in the country was thriving with the appearance of such bands as DDT, Nautilus Pompilius, Television, Chaif, Kalinov Most, and many others... The book includes exclusive materials: photographs, interviews, as well as memories of the participants of those events, specially written for this album.