PUSSY RIOT ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF DEBUT ALBUM CYKA ON JUNE 12 + "CANDY DOPAMINE" ft AVENGED SEVENFOLD + NADYA CHALLENGES PUTIN TO UFC MATCH

PUSSY RIOT ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF  DEBUT ALBUM CYKA ON JUNE 12 HERE “CANDY DOPAMINE” ft AVENGED SEVENFOLD OUT TODAY DIGITAL STREAMING + MUSIC VIDEO ON YOUTUBE   “DISOBEY” VIDEO SHOT AT VENICE BIENNALE NADYA CHALLENGES PUTIN TO FACE HER IN THE UFC CAGE MATCH AT THE WHITE HOUSE

Lyrics + Meaning for each track EVEN VLADIMIR PUTIN IS A CONTRIBUTOR ON THE ALBUM Pussy Riot does not announce their debut album CYKA with a cute Instagram carousel - instead they launched it with an explosive protest at the Venice Biennale, the so-called "Olympics of the art world", timed deliberately to coincide with Russia's controversial return to the event. The stunt made headlines globally and sent exactly the message intended: we see you, we hate it, we brought cameras, and we declare “DISOBEY”. They officially announced their debut music album CYKA to come out on Friday, June 12th. Vladimir Putin is even listed as a contributor on the album (please check the DSP liner notes) and make of that what you will. Fourteen years of protest, imprisonment, surveillance, exile, and survival crystallized into one record; CYKA is the album Pussy Riot’s founder, Nadya Tolokonnikova, was always building toward. Alongside today’s debut announcement, they release “CANDY DOPAMINE” featuring Avenged Sevenfold. It’s a fever dream/panic attack collision of punk rage, pop hooks, and the kind of emotional honesty that makes you feel like you've been punched in the chest in the best possible way. "to a place / where we're free / popping candy dopamine / no more pain / you and me" Spotify / Youtube. Nadya Tolokonnikova explains: “This song is kind of a love & hate song to prescription and designer drug culture. It started with my dependence on anti depressants, but it’s also looking at everyone now mentalhealthmaxxing and looksmaxxing via pills and injections. It’s not a judgement, it’s just an observation and my personal experience with these things is that I have to be in a long term relationship with them for my PTSD and depression.”  Next, Pussy Riot will bring the apocalypse live to Paris at the BEYOND THE STREETS exhibit in Grande Halle de la Villette on Saturday, June 20th. More live shows to be announced. Pussy Riot declares: All these old men ruining the world right now act tough - but we see thru their fragile egos - and I’m not afraid to call them out. They are, in fact, pussies. While the world is waiting for the UFC Freedom 250 on June 14 at the White House, I challenge President Putin to a cage match. He thinks he’s so tough, but afraid of a girl? Let’s see. He loses? He gets the fuck out of Ukraine. The world can watch him lose to a girl, even with all his judo training. He can’t even URA anymore, but he throws the world into despair.  Just like Brener in 1995 when they bombed Chechnya, and he challenged Yeltsin, now they bomb Ukraine, and I challenge Putin. “Putin! Come here!” Pussy Riot - CYKA tracklist: 01. GODS LEFT 02. PAIN / БОЛЬ 03. NOTHING TO LOSE 04. CYKA ft Vladimir Putin 05. MURKA 06. GORE ft B-Real 07. CANDY DOPAMINE ft Avenged Sevenfold 08. FACELESS PIGS 09. UTOPIA ft salem ilese 10. DISOBEY 11. GOD LOVES THE FIERCE / БОГ ЛЮБИТ ЛЮТЫХ 12. CANCEL ME 13. BLIZZARD 14. OUTRO About Pussy Riot / Nadya Tolokonnikova: Nadya Tolokonnikova is a conceptual artist, musician, wanted criminal, and creator of the protest collective Pussy Riot. She spent two years in a Russian jail for her protest performance “Punk Prayer” (2012), which is widely considered one of the defining works of performance art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her 2023 performance “Putin’s Ashes” and exhibition (Jeffrey Deitch, Dallas Contemporary, CONTAINER, OK Linz, Neue Nationalgalerie) landed her back on Russia’s wanted list.  In 2025, “POLICE STATE” premiered at MOCA Warehouse Los Angeles, but was shut down due to the nearby National Guard and anti-ICE protests that erupted in a clash of life-imitates-art. The performance was listed as a Defining Artwork of 2025 by ARTNews and Best Art Shows Around the World by Hyperallergic. The performance was then shown at MCA Chicago in October 2025. Among her accolades, including Time Woman of the Year, the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought, LennonOno Grant for Peace, Woodie Guthrie Prize, and an Honorary Doctorate from RISD, Nadya also wears as a badge of honor the 2025 designation of Pussy Riot as an Extremist Organization by the Russian Federation.  She dreams of a day when the world will wake up to the news that Putin has died and that Ukraine is victorious. She currently lives in exile and chooses to remain geographically anonymous.  Follow: https://pussyriot.love/ https://www.instagram.com/pussyriot/ https://www.instagram.com/nadya x.com/pussyrrriot