Petra Davis

Nightmare Visions In A Gentle Place: Mayhem Film Festival 2019

For its 2019 edition, Petra Davis dives into the weird and wonderful highlights of Broadway Cinema's Mayhem Film Festival once more

Sleaford Mods

Key Markets

LIVE REPORT: Sleaford Mods

"Those moments sound like popular unrest" Sleaford Mods' homecoming gigs reviewed by Petra Davis

From Despair To Here: Courtney Love Interviewed

Ahead of her solo tour of the UK, Petra Davis talks to Courtney Love about Hole, the importance of place in her songs and carceral feminism. Photographs courtesy of Hedi Slimane

The Body Is Not Gender: Laura Jane Grace Of Against Me! Interviewed

Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace has penned an album of astonishingly intimate anthemic punk rock. Transgender Dysphoria Blues explores a perspective seldom seen in punk: that of a trans* woman. Here she talks to Petra Davis about creativity, femininity, and soul rebellion

Every Day Counts: Yoko Ono Interviewed

Petra Davis talks to the inspirational artist, musician and activist Yoko Ono

Songs As Meditations: An Interview With Body/Head

On their debut album Coming Apart, the seething guitar noise of Kim Gordon and Bill Nace's Body/Head project possesses a strikingly raw emotional force. Petra Davis speaks to the duo about the meditative improvisational processes that went into its making

Late Night Vocal Science: An Interview With Jessy Lanza

Jessy Lanza is the mind and voice behind the sensuous and haunting R&B and electronic pop of Pull My Hair Back, released through Hyperdub next month. She speaks with Petra Davis about accidental vocal science and how her songs are like self-assembled collages

Riot Grrrl: A 20 Year Retrospective By Petra Davis

Petra Davis looks back across two decades at the liberating musical and political movement and assesses what its legacy is today

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Reassessed

The third Twin Peaks UK Festival takes place at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith today. Events include an anniversary screening of the iconic TV series' big screen prequel, which Petra Davis analyses in-depth here

Do It Like A Dude: Gender Transgressions In Pop, R&B & Hip Hop

On the day that Jessie J unleashes her debut album, Petra Davis looks at how the Brit-tipped artist is joining the likes of Beyonce and Ke$ha in subverting established gender and genre rules

An Hallucinatory Experience: R Loren On Sailors With Wax Wings

Petra Davis and R Loren discuss the new album from Sailors With Wax Wings

Supersonic 2010 Preview: Michael Rother Talks Hallogallo

The Quietus recently went to the excellent Incubate festival where, among other things, our team had a chat with Michael Rother about his Hallogallo project. All photographs courtesy of Stu Green/Shot2Bits. Listen below:

Incubate 2010: Black Mountain Interview

Petra Davis catches up with Jeremy Schmidt - at the time braving the high seas on a ferry bound for the Isle Of Wight - for a joint meditation on mystery, democracy and arboreal structures

My Left Shin: Kristin Hersh On Art, Inspiration & Vic Chestnutt

Petra Davis talks to Kristin Hersh about her solo record _Crooked_, a new Throwing Muses album and the death of the music industry. All photographs by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits.net

Hustling For Fame And Fortune: Dominique Young Unique Interviewed

After meeting Dominique Young Unique, Petra Davis decides that she isn't worried about her one little bit - she has all the tools required for total domination

Hole

Nobody's Daughter

Ikonika

Contact, Want, Love, Have

Time To Change The Dancefloor: Ikonika Interviewed

Petra Davis finds out what makes Hyperdub label sensation Ikonika tick

Joanna Newsom

Have One On Me

Sade

Soldier Of Love

Diamanda Galas Interview: Talking Her Songs Of Exile

The XX

XX

Bob Mould Interviewed: From Husker Du To Trance And Beyond

In an in-depth interview, Bob Mould talks to Petra Davis about Sugar, Husker Du, being a trance DJ and his sexuality

PJ Harvey & John Parish

A Woman A Man Walked By

Rolo Tomassi

Hysterics