Scott Lingenfelter recently reviewed Arkady Polishchuk’s memoir, Dancing on Thin Ice: Travails of a Russian Dissenter, for East-West Church Report, which covers religious and academic news in the former Soviet… Read more Arkady Polishchuk, Dancing on Thin Ice reviewed in East-West Church Report →
Notable Estonian promoter of Vesna Production, Anton Krilloff endorses Joanna Stingray’s rock ‘n’ roll memoir, Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground, below! A must-read. Russian rock and… Read more Joanna Stingray’s Red Wave: “A Must-Read” →
For the 40th anniversary of the Leningrad Rock Club, Joanna Stingray performed and was also interviewed on NPR. The 4 minute piece also features clips from two songs by her. Stingray’s memoir,… Read more Joanna Stingray Featured on NPR for Leningrad Rock Club Anniversary →
CBC Radio Q highlights Red Wave, the compilation album of underground USSR rock ‘n’ roll Joanna Stingray smuggled in the United States, on the album’s 35th anniversary. Host Tom Power… Read more Joanna Stingray’s Red Wave Featured on CBC Radio Q →
RED WAVE: a memoir by an American who almost single-handedly introduced Soviet rock to the free world. Enchanted by the likes of Boris Grebenshchikov, whose samizdat cassettes were massively successful… Read more Kirkus Reviews: Joanna Stingray is “a study in moxie and enthusiasm” →
The idea of Soviet Russia often paints a bleak picture in our minds; in the height of the Cold War, many Americans saw it as a cultural blackhole. In her… Read more Joanna Stingray’s Music Video “Feeling” Reveals a Warmer Cold War Leningrad →
As one of the first American musicians to break through the Soviet scene, and one of the few women to be seen as an equal amongst Leningrad’s pantheon of rock… Read more Punk scholar Alexander Herbert endorses forthcoming Stingray memoir →
“The depressing surroundings of Polishchuk’s life might be hard to believe for a Western person—but it is re-counted with such journalistic vision and style that reading the book is both enlightening and entertaining.”