Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground by Joanna Stingray and Madison Stingray

This book trailer introduces DoppelHouse's September 22, 2020 release: a memoir about the power of youth culture and a Cold War rock-n-roll love story set in 1980s Leningrad. Viktor Tsoi, whose song "Peremen (Change)" is now being blasted at the Belarus protests and the legendary Boris Grebenschikov as well as other musicians, punk and rock bands of the USSR figure strongly. "Wild and vivid — a rollicking memoir of romance and rock ‘n’ roll in an era of upheaval and transition. From Los Angeles to Leningrad and back again, Joanna’s story is borne along by her infectious, headlong enthusiasm. It’s quite a ride." – Patrick Radden Keefe, creator of the Wind of Change podcast and author of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland "One of the first American musicians to break through the Soviet scene, and one of the few women to be seen as an equal amongst Leningrad’s pantheon of rock superstars, ... Stingray’s stories are as entertaining as they are relevant and illuminating." –Alexander Herbert, author of What About Tomorrow: An Oral History of Russian Punk Rock from the Soviet Era to Pussy Riot