Olena Pohonchenkova

Writes about music on her own Telegram channel bubblegum zine, the samecalled printed zine, and other Ukrainian and European publications. She hosts her own show about Ukrainian music ecosystems, bubbles, on 20ft Radio, and is also the host of the podcast Memory Leaks, which explores the history of the music underground. She is interested in the boundaries of musical and non-musical elements in pop culture, particularly in Ukrainian pop culture, as well as the intersections and transformations of music and noise in the context of full-scale war. Born in Odesa, she currently lives in Lviv.