X-Ray's Ignited Russia's Love Affair With Vinyl Records, How Bone Records Helped To Keep Rock N' Roll Alive

Photos via Jozsef Hajdu and Ksenia Vytuleva

Music as a medium permeates all cultures on earth and we definitely consider it to be the heartbeat of the soul. Watch the transformation of an audience when witnessing their favorite band taking the stage or to be lost in the middle of a song. It's a transformative moment and something to which our actions during that exact time period can be quite hard to define. 

Now imagine if your government forbade you to listen to certain types of music. Would this bring out a form of rebellion within you? Would this make a certain music genre more interesting to seek out? These few ideas could be thought about as a huge amount of what if's, but this is where things get interesting. Read on below to find out exactly how young Russians only a few decades ago were listening to forbidden music from the west. 

Tour In Style, Motorcycle Road Show

So you have the band together, you have the songs and the look, now you need a respectable ride for the road. Leave it to those ingenious Russians to make something so simple and effective, while we scratch our heads in disbelief on thinking why didn't we come up with it first. Olaf, sing to us in your broken English from your band Yankee Blue Jeans...

From Russia With Love - Women and Motorcycles

Russia is known for it's peaks and valleys in financial transactions, weather and gorgeous women. It is no surprise to us to be able to find a bevvy of beauties hiding out online just waiting to be seen when it comes to posing next to a bike at tradeshows in Moscow. Do some diggin' as we are continually amazed at what fruit can be offered for our labor from such a cold and northern country.