It wasn’t mentioned anywhere, and that probably won’t happen again. But for this one time: the R1 editorial team is a fan of WLVS – short for Wolves (dating back to their English-language early days), though friends like to joke and call them Walrus. (A normal introduction to the band can be found here.)

Artyom Tyganov, Dmitriy Avargin, Ksenia Kundenko, and Pavel Molov – a quartet from Samara (from the Dark Zhiguli Region). Like WLVS, also musically in the same regions. But Supruga (usually) does it with a female singer, though you might think otherwise if you just listen and don’t watch. Супруга = wife, in the sense of spouse (see Reverso). Must be a stormy marriage.

A trio from Samara with a simple lineup: guitar, bass, drums. Music that goes straight ahead with force. Bassist Max Smirnov sings along. They used to sing in English ( The Last Gang in Town, 2013), but since Человек человеку волк (2015), it’s been in Russian, and thank goodness for that.