TOM MORELLO JOINS PUSSY RIOT FOR BOMBASTIC SINGLE

Rage Against the Machine firebrand Tom Morello has teamed up with Russian punk outfit Pussy Riot for new single “Weather Strike”. The storming track opens with a heavily overdriven bassline that quickly erupts into a drop-D Morellian banger, its choruses flanked by ethereal piano verses, before a molotov cocktail of pentatonic riffs and Whammy-drenched solos bring the song home.

“Pussy Riot is one of the most radical and important activist musical groups of all time,” Morello said in a statement. “Their fearless blending of art and confrontation is a constant inspiration and it’s an honour to combine forces on this powerful, revolutionary track.”

“Both for Tom and me politics has been always closely intertwined with our music, like two sides of a Möbius strip,” says Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova.

The release follows last month’s Pussy Riot EP Panic Attack, with a full album scheduled for later this year. Two of the band’s members, Masha Alekhina and Lucy Shtein, remain under house arrest, and face two years’ jail time for supporting Alexei Navalny, opposition leader to Vladimir Putin.