European Radio for Belarus is an international radio station that provides independent news, information, and entertainment to the citizens of Belarus launched on February 26, 2006. ERB operates on FM, OIRT FM, Internet, and Satellite to reach the widest audience. Its staff includes around 20 people in the Warsaw office and ten journalists in the Minsk office.
beZ bileta is a Belarusian alternative rock band from Minsk active since 1998.
Open Space is a pop rock and indie rock band from Minsk, Belarus. Started in the middle of the 2000s with their English repertoire with a bit of Belarusian songs, they have changed the language of songwriting mostly just to Russian in recent years. Since 2006, they have released two full albums and several EP and singles, but nowadays the musicians play together mostly as a cover band. In addition to that, since March 2017 Vitaliy Matievskiy, frontman of the band, promotes his synth-pop duo Days of Days and since June 2018 he also writes music for his solo electronic music project MATIVI.
Hey, O.K is an album by the band Vopli Vidopliassova. It was released by the Ukrainian-Canadian label Kobza in 1990.
Bristeil are an indie rock music band from Minsk, Belarus. Their music is often referred to as "intelligent rock". The group was formed in 2013 by lead vocalist and guitarist Aleh Vial. They released the debut EP Cyruĺnia Svietu on 26 May 2014. At present, Vial mostly focuses on songwriting for his solo electronic music project Helaiv, launched in 2017, while guitarist Max Bykau in fall 2018 began to play in the acoustic pop duo Maks & Lera, while playing part-time in the cover band Miami.
Cyruĺnia Svietu is the first studio EP by Belarusian intelligent rock band Bristeil released on May 26, 2014. The first track "Heta Mahčyma" was released as a single on December 2, 2013. All four tracks were written by Aleh Vial in the Belarusian language.
Vital Voranaŭ is a Belarusian-Polish playwright, translator, writer, academic, and poet. He is a co-founder of Belarusian Cultural and Scientific Centre in Poznań and the publishing house Bely Krumkacz. He was born in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR and now lives in Poland. He completed his doctorate at Masaryk University in Czech Republic and teaches Irish literature and history of Belarus in Southwestern College in the United States.
Hair Peace Salon is a power pop band from Minsk, Belarus, influenced by British indie rock. Hair Peace Salon's music is distinguished by its use of English lyrics with emotional flow and drastic mood swings in songs. The group was founded in 1998 and they have released one full-length album Gentleman, numerous singles and EPs. In 2013 the members took a break when frontman and co-founder Aleh Vial created another band, Bristeil.
Gentleman is the first studio album by the Belarusian indie rock and power-pop band Hair Peace Salon, released on March 21, 2012. The CD contains 10 tracks recorded in the period 2009–2012. All songs were written by Aleh Vial and Konstantin Karman.
Jitters was a rock band from Minsk, Belarus, which played mostly rock 'n' roll and post-grunge. The band was formed in 1998 and released the album Split Before, Together Now, as well as several EPs. In 2007, Jitters broke up and its members joined other groups: Konstantin Karman teamed up with Hair Peace Salon, and Ivan Barzenka and Pavel Kudrin joined beZ bileta.
Martin S. is a music band formed by members of MoZart, the band had existed since 2003, in 2011. It is the winner of the 9th BSU Open Music Festival “Such gingerbreads” (2012). In 2012 it was honored as “Breakthrough of the Year” presented by Tuzin.fm. The band released two studio albums: “Martin S.” on 12 tracks (2012) and “Pieršy” on 9 tracks (2015); three singles: “Chutkija” (2013), “Pampieja” (2014), “Novy Dzień” (2019); one EP: “Nie Zabyć Pamylki Nikoli” on 4 tracks (2014).
Hover is an EP by Belarusian rock band Hair Peace Salon recorded at the Gennadiy “Gena Dee” Syrokvash’s X-NOISE Factory studio and released in 2005. All of songs were performed in English.
Tuzin. Perazagruzka is a compilation album by a dozen of Belarusian bands and solo performers who usually sing in Russian, English, and Italian but made covers of their songs in the Belarusian language. The CD was released by the public movement Budzma Belarusians! together with the music portal Tuzin.fm with the support of the World Association of Belarusians “Baćkaŭščyna” and the Belarusian Radio Racyja in December 2009. The idea of the project belongs to Siarhei Budkin.
Budzma! Tuzin. Perazagruzka-2 is a compilation album by a dozen Belarusian and foreign bands and solo performers, who usually sing in Russian, English, and Ukrainian, but made covers of their songs in Belarusian. The CD was released by the public movement Budzma Belarusians! and the music portal Tuzin.fm in December 2011. The project was visualized by Siarhei Budkin. The presentation of the compilation, which was headlined by Oleg Skrypka, took place at the Minsk club "Loft" on December 15, 2011.
"Rolz'n'Rulz" is the second single from the album Gentleman by the Belarusian indie rock and power pop band Hair Peace Salon released on September 15, 2010. It consists of one song “Rolz'n'Rulz” written by Aleh Vial together with Konstantin Karman.
Split Before, Together Now is a split album by Belarusian rock bands Hair Peace Salon and Jitters released on the initiative of the West Records label on October 25, 2007. The disc consists of two EPs: Gipsy by Hair Peace Salon and Pick Me Up by Jitters.
Tuzin.fm is a private non-profit Belarusian web-portal, which was created in 2003 to cover musical creativity in Belarus. Among its objectives, the site promotes music written in Belarus and motivates to listen to Belarusian songs as large an audience as possible. It initiates and implements music projects and is the information partner of the most significant events of the Belarusian independent music scene. Independently determining its information policy, the nature and content of the information, advertising, audio, and video materials, in 2009 the mass media had more than 50 thousand monthly visitors who downloaded more than 80 thousand songs.
Rock-kola was a Belarusian rock festival held annually from 1990 to 2007 in Polotsk and Novopolotsk. At the Rock Coronation 2004-2005, it won in the category of “Festival of the Year.”
Rusya is a Belarusian vocalist of the band Indiga, a Rock-Princess according to the results of the tenth “Rock Coronation.” She is the vocalist of the band Šuma and also takes part in the band Akana-NHS and others.
Be Free was a Belarusian rock festival that took place in Ukraine since 2007. Bands from Poland, Ukraine, and France participated in the festival too.
