Came across a link to Pitchfork records blurb on the band Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin (SSLYBY). How 5 guys from Missouri come up with such a name isn't explained.Nearly four months after their namesake's passing, Polyvinyl-signed upstarts Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin made it to Russia late last month.Hey, isn't that guy on the right Donnie Wahlberg?
Seems the Missouri-bred quartet were the talk of the Annual Afisha Picnic, which went down July 28 at Moscow's Kolomenskoye park. There they competed against native heavyweights like Mumiy Troll-- as well as cartoon viewings, fashion shows, backgammon and chess tournaments, sculpture gardens, manicures, an interactive "cardboard kingdom," and a whole lotta food-- to win the hearts and raise the eyebrows of our brothers and sisters of the former Soviet Union.
I'm sure these guys have a page on MySpace as well, might be worth giving them a listen.
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Yeah, they explained their name in an interview given with Afisha a couple of weeks ago (16-29 July 2007, p. 66): They thought it up when they were still a garage band in high school and wanted something "happy and foolish" (I'm back-translating, I have no idea what they said in English). The name stuck simply because none of the members hated it, it seems.
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