Have Pussy Riot sparked a new wave of grrl power?

The Pussy Riot trial sparked global protest. Will it mobilise artists, too? Laura Snapes meets music's angry young womenIt's a Thursday night in Leeds and people are gathering outside the gay bar Queens Court for a march in support of Russian punk collective Pussy Riot. Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova are due to be sentenced the following day, the culmination of their trial on charges of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred". (For performing their 40-sec...

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