Free Pussy Riot! A Benefit Show

Thursday night at The Ossington, we're throwing a party for Pussy Riot. Six awesome Toronto bands will play: Pow Wows, ATTAGIRL, Alphabot!, shy kids, The Reply, and Ryan Kamstra from Tomboyfriend. We'd hoped it would a celebration — that by now the women of Pussy Riot would be free. But instead, last Friday, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alekhina were sentenced to two years in a Russian labour camp. All for singing an anti-Vladimir Putin song at a church in Moscow.

It might be a drop in the ocean of Putin's authoritarian ways, but we're hoping to send a little help from Toronto. Cover for the show is $5 — and all of the money will be going to help the Russian riot grrrls with their legal expenses.

You can find more information by checking out the Facebook invite here. And below we've pulled together videos and streaming links for all of the bands who'll be playing on Thursday, so you can start to get an idea of just how fucking awesome this line-up is going to be.

shy kids


Stream more of their stuff on Bandcamp here.


Alphabot!


Stream more of their stuff on Bandcamp here.


Ryan Kamstra (of Tomboyfriend):


Stream more Tomboyfriend on their website here.


The Reply


Stream more of their stuff on Bandcamp here.


ATTAGIRL


Stream more of their stuff on Bandcamp here


Pow Wows


Stream more of their stuff on Bandcamp here.


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