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Pussy Riot saw themselves as feminist artists who were influenced by the riot grrrl movement and musical groups such as Bikini Kill, Oi!, Cockney Rejects and by writers, activists and artists like Alexandra Kollontai, Judith Butler, Karen Finley, Simone de Beauvoir and Vladimir Bukovsky.
David Browne of Entertainment Weekly called Pussy Whipped "the first great riot-grrrl album". [4] The Guardian wrote that "Hanna is so enraged that words to fetching tunes like 'Hamster Baby' and 'Star-Bellied Boy' are transmuted to wild shrieks."
The band's debut album, Pussy Whipped, was released in September 1993. Bikini Kill toured in London, England to begin working with Huggy Bear, releasing a split album, Our Troubled Youth / Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah, and touring the UK. The tour was the subject of a documentary film by Lucy Thane titled It Changed My Life: Bikini Kill in the U.K.
A new television series about the Russian feminist protest art collective Pussy Riot is in the works.. Nadya Tolokonnikova, the artist and activist who co-founded the group in 2011 to protest ...
Pussy Riot members, from left, Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, sitting in a glass-walled Moscow court cage in 2012 for sentencing after their convictions for ...
A documentary following the Pussy Riot court case, Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, debuted at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. [101] In 2015, Tolokonnikova and her Pussy Riot bandmates Maria Alyokhina and Pyotr Verzilov appeared as themselves in Chapter 29 of House of Cards, a popular American television drama series that airs on Netflix.
A Moscow court on Tuesday put Lyusya Shtein, a member of Pussy Riot who fled abroad, on an international wanted list for spreading knowingly "fake" information about the Russian armed forces ...
Bikini Kill's debut album Pussy Whipped, released in 1993, included the song "Rebel Girl". "Rebel Girl" has become one of Bikini Kill's signature songs as well as a widely-recognized anthem for the riot grrrl movement [ 66 ] [ 67 ] While "the unforgettable anthem", as Robert Christgau calls it, [ 68 ] never charted due to its independent ...