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Pussy Riot Members Burn Putin Photo in New Video
It’s been nearly three weeks since August 17th, when a trio of Pussy Riot members were sentenced to two years in labor camps on charges of hooliganism. So, what has the rest of the feminist punk...
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Pussy Riot Could Be Free as Early as October 1st
The Russian justice system may have failed the three members of Pussy Riot who were sentenced to two years in labor camps, but today brings the potential of clemency from an unexpected source: Dmitry...
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A Brief History of Controversy-Courting Band Names
Tomorrow marks the release of Strapped, the new album by Californian noiseniks The Soft Pack. (You can stream the record at Spin right now, if you’re so inclined.) For those not familiar with the...
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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. If you’re a Homeland fan who doesn’t have Showtime, you’ll be thrilled to hear that last night’s Season 2 premiere is available online here. (The Season 7 premiere of Dexter is streaming, too.) [via...
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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Pussy Riot’s Yekaterina Samutsevich has had her two-year sentence suspended by a Moscow court because guards threw her out of the cathedral before she could ready her guitar to perform in the...
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What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office
Today at Flavorpill, we read an in-depth interview with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi about politics and… Planet of the Apes. We ranked Rolling Stones albums from worst to best. We wanted our own...
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The Most Controversial Artworks of 2012
This has been quite a controversial year for art, and we’re not talking Jeffrey Deitch making a mess at the MoCA or that work selling for this many millions or some blue chip gallery doing whatever,...
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10 Music Documentaries You Need to See in 2013
We were fascinated to read a rare interview with former Cream and Blind Faith drummer and notorious rock ‘n’ roll lunatic Ginger Baker in the Guardian over the weekend. The interview was a propos of a...
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The Flavorpill Guide to This Week's Top 10 New York Events
For our (unconscionably high) rent money, the best thing about living in New York City is its endless supply of fun, odd, and inspired cultural events. But with so many options, it can be hard to know...
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A Selection of Fascinating Musical Manifestos, 1910-Present
A couple of years back, the Guardian published an article called “The Lost Art of the Pop Manifesto,” bemoaning, well, the lost art of the pop manifesto. The article harked back to the golden age of...
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London Activists Protest Economic Injustice by Projecting Giant Penis on...
Members of the art collective Shift//Delete have succeeded in projecting a wanking penis onto one of the most prominent fixtures in the London skyline. A video of the intervention, after the jump,...
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HBO’s ‘A Punk Prayer’ Isn’t the Pussy Riot Documentary the World Has Been...
Tonight the Pussy Riot saga reaches its (American) conclusion with the debut on HBO of Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin’s film Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, a documentary that can be conveniently...
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From Poznan Spring to Tahrir Square: 19 of the Most Memorable Protest Photos...
“Five marines Raising the Flag, Mount Suribachi, V for Victory,” a White House spin doctor explained to his partners in the 1997 film Wag the Dog. “You remember the picture. Fifty years from now,...
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Pussy Riot’s Case to Be Reviewed by the Russian Supreme Court
Finally, we have some good Pussy Riot news. The Russian Supreme Court has ordered a review of the ruling that sentenced Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Yekaterina Samutsevich to two years...
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Pussy Riot: Freed
Not even a year after their arrest in Moscow, the Russian government is finally set to free notorious punk activists Pussy Riot. Jailed band members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova could be...
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Flavorwire Interview: Masha Gessen on Telling Pussy Riot’s Story and Russia’s...
The trial and imprisonment of three members of the activist collective known as Pussy Riot captivated the world. It is a story of the Russian government treating these radical women like dangerous...
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Pussy Riot’s Brave ‘Colbert Report’ Interview Makes Us Love Them Even More
Nadezhda (Nadya) Tolokonnikova and Maria (Masha) Alyokhina, the two women who visibily head the Russian activist collective Pussy Riot, have come to America this week. They’re here, they say, to tour...
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How to Think About the Pussy Riot Schism
Not 24 hours after I last wrote to you about Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina, they appeared onstage with Madonna at a concert in Brooklyn. The concert was billed as a sort of benefit for...
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Pussy Riot Release Video for “Putin Will Teach You to Love the Motherland”
Earlier this week, images were released that showed Pussy Riot being attacked with whips and pepper spray outside the Sochi Olympics while performing a song called “Putin Will Teach You to Love the...
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Pussy Riot Members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina to Appear in...
Well, this is strange: after their December, 2013 release from prison (that came via an amnesty bill ballyhooing the Russian Constitution’s 20th anniversary — thanks wiki!), Pussy Rioters Nadezhda...
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