After two weekends of City Day and Moscow Music Week packed full of music events, this weekend seems a good time to chill out and listen to some calm music.
For starters, there's Naadia, one of Russia's leading indie-pop bands, with the singer Nadya Gritskevich. This Thursday she will present her acoustic program at an unusual venue, the one and only ukulele store in Moscow.
Ukuleleshnaya. 17 Ulitsa Pokrovka. Metro Kitai-Gorod, Chistiye Prudy. Tickets 400 rubles ($6). At 8 p.m.
On Saturday you can listen to Mujuice, an indie rocker-turned-electronic sensation, relatively well-known in the West. Mujuice will play at the fashionable EMA bar — a Berlin-style, dilapidated factory-cum-art installation with silver-colored insulation everywhere and a huge white disk called "the moon." This will probably be one of the last somewhat warm weekends to check out EMA, which is unfortunately slated to be turned into luxury condos next year.
EMA. 9 Bolshoi Nikolovorobinsky Pereulok. Metro Taganskaya, Kitai-Gorod. Tickets 300 rubles ($4.5). At 9 p.m.
If you still have a craving for a real open-air event, head to Vorobyovy Gory (Sparrow Hills) on Saturday to hear Zemfira, Garik Sukachyov and other rock bands play a tribute to the cult Soviet/Russian band Kino and its late frontman Viktor Tsoi. Entrance is free. At 7 pm.
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