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Russian court refuses bail for female punk band Pussy Riot
More prison for feminist punk rockers riles liberal Russians (via The Christian Science Monitor) The controversy over the provocatively named Russian punk rock group Pussy Riot, which profaned an Orthodox altar by singing an obscene anti-Putin “prayer” in Moscow’s most important cathedral, notched up this week when a court refused…
Friday Genius Ten “Sentimental Punk Rock” Edition
Since I’m quite shortly going to stop living in Austin, TX—where I’ve lived longer than any other place in my life—I’m starting to get sentimental. So today’s original song for the Genius Ten (leave yours in comments) is from one of the great Austin 80s punk bands, the Big Boys.…
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