Excitement reigned supreme throughout Siberia with the announcement that famous American band, The Eagles, will kick off their tour in Moscow on May 29th. In celebration we consumed massive amounts of the potato vodka while our national promoters began negotiations to bring the band to Siberia. However, neither SFXski nor the tour’s corporate sponsor, Block Of Ice Buster Entertainment, could consummate a deal with band representatives from the William Boris Agency. In frustration, we consumed massive amounts of the potato vodka.

Internet service provider, Gulag Online, has announced an alliance with Siberia’s biggest ticket service, TicketCossack, which will sell tickets via all GOL Web properties. The ticket service will also provide content for GOL’s dating service and animal breeding Web site, WarmBody@GOL. In announcing the deal, TicketCossack said that it would reduce the service charges on tickets for Kottonmouth Kings, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and Maceo Parker, but only if the groups would actually agree to play Siberia. In anticipation of the eventual disappointment, we consumed massive amounts of the potato vodka.

In other Siberian music news: Tempers flared in the recording industry’s copyright infringement suit against an Internet song-trading company. In response to recording industry complaints that Swipeyerstuffster wasn’t acting fast enough to prevent the trading of songs by Coldplay and Sigur Ros, company CEO, Hank Barelywarminov, blamed users who intentionally misspelled band names and song titles, as well as the current shortage of gun powder and ammunition. Meanwhile, relatives and friends of traders that have already been blocked from song trading have been advised to forget the past and consume massive amounts of the potato vodka.

And that is all the news we are permitted to discuss in Mother Russia. Next week we will report on how massive consumption has resulted in an unanticipated shortage of the potato vodka, which may prevent Vans Warped Tour ’01 and Neil Young from kicking off our summer amphitheatre season, tentatively scheduled to start on August 8th.

Reporting for Pollstar.com, this is Siberian correspondent, Igor Petrov. Here’s looking at you, comrades.