Former Staind frontman and now solo country artist (and possible Qanon nutbag) Aaron Lewis disgustingly asked his audience to “listen to what Putin has to say” at a concert down south back in March.<\/p>\n
What does this have to do with Dima, the lead singer of Tarakany!\u00a0 Well, first, let me give you a brief history.<\/p>\n
2010 – I MEET TARAKANY! IN MOSCOW\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Some of you may know the Russian band\u00a0<\/span>Tarakany! (Cockroach)<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, I signed them to <\/span>Punk Outlaw Records<\/span><\/a>\u00a0back in 2012, after a Punk Outlaw film trip to\u00a0<\/span>Moscow<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0&\u00a0<\/span>St. Petersburg<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n I interviewed lead singer Dima and the band at early morning rehearsals. It was my very first interview of that epic Russian trip. <\/span><\/p>\n I recall being extremely jet-lagged, groggy, and disbelieving that any punk band would rehearse so early in the morning. Welcome to Russia, where many of the best and brightest work with the precision of Germans but under an incompetent, disorganized, brutal, corrupt state structure run by kleptocratic, greedy buffoons. More on that later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In preparing for the trip, I researched Tarakany! very little and did not realize the history of the body of work they had already amassed by 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n