Beograd's Finest Sons

We here at The Little Black Egg are feverishly working around the clock to transcribe our nearly-illegible notes from our recent Serbian excursion. Tasked with the job of getting a space-filling post to keep our rabid audience of millions entertained, the Little Black Egg Editorial Squad rolled their eyes and did what they always did—went directly to a very popular internet video sharing service.

And as luck would have it, people have been uploading videos from those perennial Little Black Egg fave raves, the undisputed kings of YU Garage, the Partibrejkers. Once again, we here at The Little Black Egg missed seeing them by a only couple of days while in Belgrade. Again! This is the third time it's happened.

Kreni Prema Meni (Live)


Ludo i brzo


Hocu da Znam


??? (Live)


(We here at The Little Black Egg would like to extend a sincere "hvala" to those of you who posted these.)

YU Garage Lives

Sarah and I went to Serbia in 2005 to the Guca Golden Brass Festival. This is a week-long festival of Balkan brass band music, and was possibly the coolest thing I have ever seen in my life.

Anyway, we spent a lot of time hanging out with Sarah’s friend Nevena, and her friend Sasha, who as a real cool guy. Sasha was nice enough to fill two CDs full of Serbian music for me, including the Partibrejkers. They have to be the best garage band in the whole of the former Yugoslavia, and they just landed in my lap. Oh Fortuna.

The Partibrejkers have this grimy, uh, Pretty Things by way of Motley Crüe sound. The singer has a real scrappy delivery without a whole lot of pretense—he just belts it out. I have no idea what he’s saying, but he sounds really satisfied with how he’s saying it. Kind of like he knows that he’s doing a good job, and you know he’s doing a good job, so he’s not gonna work too hard to impress you.


According to the Partibrejkers website, they formed in 1982 and are still kicking around today, albeit with a different rhythm section. I keep hoping that I’ll be in the same place at the same time as these guys so I can catch their show.

Although I’ll probably look like a fucking idiot if I do, yelling “Yeah! Yeah! Yeeaaahh!”