Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (SSLYBY) is an indie pop band from Springfield, Missouri. Their first full-length album Broom, independently released in 2005, received good reviews from Spin Magazine and they are now signed with Polyvinyl Record Co.. The band's name refers to Boris Yeltsin, the first President of Russia (1990–1999).
Will Knauer and Philip Dickey were high school friends. Phil and Will were in different bands that both "trie...
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Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (SSLYBY) is an indie pop band from Springfield, Missouri. Their first full-length album Broom, independently released in 2005, received good reviews from Spin Magazine and they are now signed with Polyvinyl Record Co.. The band's name refers to Boris Yeltsin, the first President of Russia (1990–1999).
Will Knauer and Philip Dickey were high school friends. Phil and Will were in different bands that both "tried to sound like Nirvana." After Will and Philip's high school bands broke up (Wharf and Thinking Version, respectively), the two started playing together on Weller Street. The band has given several different explanations for the origin of their name:
I thought of it in high school right after Boris Yeltsin resigned. I saw an NBC news story about his wife.
Honestly, I can’t remember what I was thinking. We just thought it would be a good idea to have a really long band name.
Will's brother had to write a paper about Russian history and the...
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