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January 16, 2008

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

A couple of years ago I went to Colombia to see Rogue Wave with some friends. The show was supposed to start at 8 p.m., but what wasn't mentioned was that there were 3 bands opening for them. We saw Two Gallants, a 2-member band made up of a couple of gradeschool friends...although everyone I was with didn't care them, I really dug the sound they were putting together.
To our surprise the opening band, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, had the best show of the night. The little known band at the time from Springfield, MO had impressed us all; when we got home we looked 'em up on the internet. What we found was a group of guys that put together incredible lyrics with a sound that marries Weezer with Elliot Smith.
A month after we had gone to Colombia a review came out in RFT of their first album, Bloom, which said, "This just might be the best album of 2005 by anybody." Unbeknowst to us, we had come upon future indie stars and we didn't even know it...talk about cool...we were it.
A couple of years later, and they have been signed to a label and have had a song featured on the indie-heavy show, The OC! Their album received praise from the likes of SPIN magazine and they toured from California to Russia!
We've been following them ever since, going to shows when they come into town and the like. Hopefully after watching these videos, which are fare to midly as they say in some parts of Southern Missouri, you'll dig the music as much as we do and go support 'em next time they come to your town!

| By Nathan Gemayel | 1:10 PM

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