Pussy Riot

Pussy Riot + Dave Sitek, "Bad Apples" (Pussy Riot). Russia's most famous agit-pop troupe and TV on the Radio's producer link up for a concise, emphatic industrial-lite anthem. The Riot grrrlz rail against nefarious shit like "killer cops, hatred, the death machine, corruption, damn fools drunk on power"—you ...

Pussy Riot invited members from two local groups to speak at the beginning of last night's "fake concert": Socialist Alternative Portland, who urged the audience to organize and rally against capitalism, and the Portland chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, who denounced Israel's "apartheid-like" ...

Punk provocateurs Pussy Riot exist less as a band than as an outlet for the collective's anti-Putin, anti-fascist and anti-Trump demonstrations, and their shows are more akin to a political rally than any type of concert. As such, there was a palpable feeling of electric expectation in the Doug Fir Lounge last ...

Two members of the all-female Russian punk band Pussy Riot who allegedly disappeared on Tuesday after being harassed by police in Crimea have reappeared and are safe, according to the group's social media pages. Olga Borisova and Sasha Sofeyev had lost touch with their friends and colleagues ...

UPDATE: Just hours after the members were reported missing, Pussy Riot tweeted that Borisova and Sofeev had been found. "They were detained several times but safe now," they wrote. There was no mention of Alyokhina or information on why the women had been taken into custody. Russian punk ...

He is serving a 20-year prison sentence on terror charges that he and supporters say are groundless. Pussy Riot achieved prominence in 2012 after Alyokhina and fellow Pussy Riot performer Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" for a stunt in which band ...

Upon the unceremonious announcement on that Putin won another performative election, Pussy Riot released a new video, “Elections.” They refer repeatedly to “six years,” the length of a hypothetical presidential term. Putin won today in the procedural landslide, and journalists tweeted images of casual ...

In February 2012, Russian feminist band Pussy Riot performed a "punk prayer" show at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. The Russian ... Neither was the dissonance in Tolokonnikova hosting Inside Pussy Riot, an "immersive theatre experience," at a gallery owned by Charles Saatchi, who was ...

Pussy Riot described him as a political prisoner. Pussy Riot, who have a rotating cast of musicians and artists, have long been outspoken against Putin and Russian elites. Members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova served 21-month jail terms after an anti-Putin performance in 2012 at the altar ...