Tarakany!

Tarakany!
Lead vocalist Dmitry Spirin performing with Tarakany! during the Kubana festival in 2012.
Background information
Also known as	Kutuzovsky Prospect Chetyre Tarakana
Origin	Moscow, Russia
Genres	Punk rock
Years active	1991–present
Labels	FeeLee Records (1997–2002) AiB Records (2003–2007) FG Nikitin (2008–2009) Navigator Records (since 2009)
Members	Dmitry Spirin Sergey Prokofyev Vasily Lopatin Alexander Pronin Nikolai Stravinsky

Tarakany! (Russian: Тараканы!; translated as "Cockroaches!") is a Russian punk rock band.

The history of the band that is currently named Tarakany! began in Moscow, Russia in 1991. Tarakany! was one of the first punk bands to emerge from the new Russian Federation after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

The first name of the band was Kutuzovsky Prospect - this is the title of the street in Moscow where band members lived. A bit later the band was renamed to "Четыре таракана" (rus. "four cockroaches"). It has recorded its first album "Duty Free Songs" in 1992, it was distributed on tapes. Soon after that the vocalist left the band, and his place was taken by Dmitry Spirin, who still leads the band. In 1997 the band was renamed again to Tarakany!.

For the first 12 years of the band's life, Tarakany! has released nine albums and performed in more than 800 concerts. Until 2004, Tarakany! was relatively unknown outside their home country. This has changed with the release of their 10th album, Freedom Street, now available on Zurich Chainsaw Massacre Records.

They've toured Japan as well as parts of Europe, along with touring and playing large festivals in Russia. In 2003 Tarakany! organized a Russian tour, which ended with three shows in collaboration project with Marky Ramone under the name Marky Ramone & The Pinhead Army.

In January 2005, Tarakany! toured Europe with Marky Ramone on a special Ramones Night tour. Tarakany! played a set of their own material and then played a set of Ramones material with Marky on drums.

In 2013 Tarakany! released their new MaximumHappy! album (divided into two volumes). The album was recorded in Düsseldorf, Germany at Rock or Die Studio & Stereo-Labs Studio and was sponsored by the band's fans using Planeta croudfunding platform. Some of the songs at this album were recorded with help of members of Die Ärzte and Anti-Flag.