{"id":15530,"date":"2011-09-16T14:19:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T12:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=15530"},"modified":"2011-09-16T14:19:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T12:19:45","slug":"russian-heavy-bands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/16\/russian-heavy-bands\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian heavy bands"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>A few days ago I was enjoying a company of people who organize events in Cyprus. \u00a0In particular, they are bringing musicians and singers. \u00a0Of course, everyone at the table was asked who would they like to see and who they would pay money for. \u00a0To my shame, I don&#8217;t follow the music scene in Russia at all. \u00a0All the bands that I&#8217;ve listened to when I was living there are way too old now. \u00a0And I have no idea who is doing what nowadays. \u00a0So, I couldn&#8217;t really answer the question. \u00a0That&#8217;s not a big problem anyway, since the kind of music that I listen to is probably not something many people would be interested in in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>I spent some time getting familiar with the current state of the Russian music and I have to say that I am positively surprised. \u00a0There are plenty of bands that play hard and heavy alternative music that I am a fan off. \u00a0I&#8217;ve created a new YouTube playlist &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLEDE284EF04EF7187\">Russian heavy bands<\/a> &#8211; which I populated with a few tunes that I liked. \u00a0I will keep this thing around and when and if I come across something worthy, I&#8217;ll add it there. \u00a0So feel free to subscribe, share, and bookmark. \u00a0Also, if you have any suggestions, please comment. \u00a0Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a little preview of what&#8217;s going to be in the playlist:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1yW1n8iuoDU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>A few days ago I was enjoying a company of people who organize events in Cyprus. \u00a0In particular, they are bringing musicians and singers. \u00a0Of course, everyone at the table was asked who would they like to see and who they would pay money for. \u00a0To my shame, I don&#8217;t follow the music scene in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/16\/russian-heavy-bands\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russian heavy bands<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,31,2],"tags":[2909,1908],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-15530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-music","category-personal","tag-russia","tag-youtube-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7455,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/21\/cyprus-rockers\/","url_meta":{"origin":15530,"position":0},"title":"Cyprus rockers","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 21, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"It seems that I am not alone feeling a lack of activities in Cyprus cultural life. 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