By Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

Zoilus is very close to convincing us to go check out Auktyon, a St. Petersburg band formed in the 1980s back when the city was still called Leningrad. The band is coming off shows throughout the US including SXSW.
What do they sound like? I’ll let Zoilus describe:

[They're an] eight-piece, folkloric-new-wave-jazz-ska cocktail at least as combustible as the Czech massives’ molotovs. The jousting voices of leader Leonid Federov and hypeman Oleg Garkusha add up to a lyrical-inflammatory hybrid of Jacques Brel and David Thomas of Pere Ubu.

The band is playing tonight at the Mod Club ($20, doors at 7pm), opening will be a slightly bigger (and better?) version of Lenin I Shumov.