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Infobox musical artist| name = Peaches| image = HT99862 Laptop.jpg| caption = Peaches performing live| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Merrill Beth Nisker| birth_date = birth date and age|1966|11|11| birth_place = Toronto , Ontario , Canada| instrument = Vocals, synthesizer, drum machine, guitar, keytar, laser harp, theremin| genre = Electroclash , synthpunk , dance-punk , electro hop | occupation = Singer-songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, disc jockey, performance artist, actress| years_active = 1990present| label = XL Recordings|XL , Kitty-Yo | associated_acts = Gonzales (musician)|Gonzales , Feist (singer)|Feist , Mocky , JD Samson , Samantha Maloney , Radio Sloan , Iggy Pop | website = URL|www.peachesrocks.com/ Merrill Beth Nisker (born November 11, 1966), better known by her stage name Peaches , is a Canadian electronic music|electronic musician and performance artist who lives in Berlin , Germany. Her songs are noted for disregarding traditional gender norms and their use of sexually explicit lyrics. She plays her own instruments for her songs, programs her own electronic beats, and produces her own albums.
Her songs have been featured in movies such as Mean Girls , Waiting... (film)|Waiting... , Jackass Number Two , My Little Eye , and Lost in Translation (film)|Lost in Translation . Her music has also been featured on television shows such as Lost Girl (TV series)|Lost Girl , The L Word , Ugly Betty , South Park , 30 Rock and has been used for the promotion of Dirt (TV series)|Dirt . Peaches performed guest vocals on Pink (musician)|Pink's album Try This , on the song "Oh My God," on the Chicks on Speed album 99 Cents , on the song " We Don't Play Guitars " and recently on Christina Aguilera 's 2010 album Bionic (Christina Aguilera album)|Bionic , on the song "My Girls" (which was produced and co-written with Le Tigre ) and in the film Drive Angry with Nicolas Cage.
Early life
Born Merrill Beth Nisker in Toronto, Ontario, she attended a private Jewish day school|Jewish school where her classes were taught half in English language|English and half in Hebrew language|Hebrew . Nisker was a class clown, who "wasn't particularly smart. I was interested in creative performance stuff, but that turned out to be difficult for me because it was all so structured," she told Kitty Empire of The Observer .cite web | last = Taylor | first = Ken | year = 2003 | url = http://www.musicianguide.com/biographies/1608003971/Peaches.html | title = Peaches Biography | work = Musician Guide | accessdate = 2010-04-15
Before she became Peaches, Nisker was a music and drama teacher at Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto .cite web|url= http://www.cjnews.com/index.php? option=com_content& task=view& id=15386& Itemid=86 |title=Associated music teacher pioneers electroclash |publisher=The Canadian Jewish News |accessdate=2011-01-21
Career
199099: Mermaid Cafe, Fancypants Hoodlum, the Shit
During the early 1990s, Nisker was part of folk trio Mermaid Cafe.cite web|url= http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=GugJrIgTLEU |title=Mermaid Cafe 1990 (with clip of Sweet Jones) |publisher=Youtube |accessdate=2011-01-22 The name was taken from the Joni Mitchell song " Carey (song)|Carey ".(2008-01-31). http://www.thecanadianmusicforum.com/blog/? cat=27 Mermaid Cafe The Canadian Music Forum. Retrieved 2010-04-16. She later released her first album, Fancypants Hoodlum , under the name Merrill Nisker in 1995, and subsequently developed the style and persona that would take her to international fameCitation needed|date=June 2010 as Peaches. In 1995, she started the Shit, a noisy four-piece combo with Gonzales (musician)|Chilly Gonzales (a.k.a. Jason Beck), bassist Sticky (later of Weeping Tile (band)|Weeping Tile and Music Maul), and Dominique Salole (a.k.a. Mocky ). Their absurd, highly sexual rock music was a harbinger for what Nisker would become, as it was during this time that she adopted the Peaches name. The Peaches moniker is taken from the Nina Simone song " Four Women (song)|Four Women " where Simone screams at the end, "My name is Peaches!"cite web|url= http://exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx? csid1=52& csid2=778& fid1=2451 |title=Exclaim& #33; Canada's Music Authority |publisher=Exclaim.ca |date= |accessdate=2010-06-09 In Toronto, before rising to fame, she was a roommate of fellow recording artist Feist (singer)|Feist .cite news |title = All mouth, no trousers | month = July | publisher = The Age | url = http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/working-blue/2006/06/29/1151174330818.html | accessdate = 2008-01-13 | location=Melbourne | date=2006-07-02 Feist worked the back of the stage at Peaches' shows, using a sock puppet and calling herself "Bitch Lap Lap".cite news| last =Everett-Green| first =Robert| title =Grammy girl: Feist| pages =R1, R19| publisher = The Globe and Mail | date =2008-02-09| url = http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080208.wgrammy09/BNStory/Entertainment/home| accessdate = The two also toured together in England from 20002001, staying with Justine Frischmann of Elastica and M.I.A. (artist)|M.I.A. cite news | author=Feist|title= A Torch Singer with an ancient sound| url= http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/arts/music/05play.html | work = The New York Times | date=2005-05-05 | accessdate=2008-05-14 M.I.A. went on to video document Peaches' 2000 US tour and made clothes for the musician, while Peaches inspired M.I.A. to use the Roland MC-505 in her own compositions.cite episode | title = BBC iPlayer - Profile: MIA | episodelink = | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00hmn8c/Profile_MIA/ | series = Profiles | serieslink = | credits = Presenter: Steven Sackur|Sackur, Steven | network = BBC | station = BBC Radio 4 | city = London | airdate = 2009-02-21 | began = | ended = | season = | seriesno = | number = | minutes = 13:33 | transcript = | transcripturl= cite news|first=Richard|last= Harrington|date=16 September 2005|url= http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/15/AR2005091500697_pf.html|title= M.I.A., No Loss For Words|work=Washington Post|accessdate=28 January 2009
200002: The Teaches of Peaches
After creating a six-track EP, Lovertits , Peaches moved to Berlin , Germany . While visiting her old friend Jason Beck, who was enjoying modest European success as Chilly Gonzales in his new home base of Berlin, Peaches landed a one-night gig. On the merits of that show alone, Berlin's Kitty-Yo label signed her on the spot. The label offered her the chance to record a new album, The Teaches of Peaches , back home in Toronto, and the already-completed Lovertits EP was released in the summer of 2000. The full-length album The Teaches of Peaches , was released that fall.cite web | url= http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-musicians/peaches-biography | title= Peaches Biography: Contemporary Musicians | publisher= Enotes.com | date= | accessdate= 2010-06-09
Peaches appeared on the British TV show Top of the Pops , but her performance was deemed too racy to be aired.William V. Meter (2003-06-23). http://www.spin.com/articles/peaches-shes-very-kinky-girl Peaches: She's a Very Kinky Girl '' Spin (magazine)|SPIN '.' Retrieved 2010-05-26.
Nisker signed to a European contract by Sony Music Entertainment|Sony following the release of The Teaches of Peaches . She later made a big-budget video for the song " Set It Off (Peaches song)|Set It Off ", in which she sat in a locker room as her pubic and armpit hair grew to Rapunzel length. Sony Music Entertainment|Sony subsequently dropped her. "Now they want their money back," Peaches said.
In 2001, Nisker's 34AA bust was one of the first female busts cast by famous 1960s groupie Cynthia Plaster Caster , who was better known for making molds of male rockers' genitalia.cite web|url= http://www.cynthiaplastercaster.com/html/list.html |title=Cynthia Plaster Caster |publisher=Cynthia Plaster Caster |date= |accessdate=2010-06-09cite web|url= http://www.cynthiapcaster.org/casts/_breasts/breasts_peaches_page/peaches_page.htm |title=Cynthia P Caster |publisher=Cynthia P Caster Foundation |accessdate=2011-01-22
In 2002, Peaches appeared in "Hideous Man", a short film directed by John Malkovich . The short was created as a showcase for clothing designed by Bella Freud , and featured the poetry of Gary Sinise .cite web|url= http://www.bellafreud.co.uk/films/hideous-man-2/ |title=Hideous Man |publisher=www.bellafreud.co.uk |accessdate=2011-01-21
200305: Fatherfucker
In 2003, Peaches released her sophomore|second album Fatherfucker on XL Recordings|XL / Kitty-Yo after years of touring and opening for artists like Marilyn Manson and Queens of the Stone Age . She once again wrote and programmed all of her album's music herself. The single " Kick It ", which features Iggy Pop , Peaches described to Rolling Stone as "more about rock 'n' roll than sex."cite web|url= http://www.nme.com/news/peaches/14090 |title=Pop Show& #33; & #124; News |publisher=Nme.Com |date=2003-04-17 |accessdate=2010-06-09
For her album Fatherfucker , Peaches was nominated in the "Outstanding Music Artist" category for the 15th GLAAD Media Awards along with Rufus Wainwright , Meshell Ndegeocello , Junior Senior , and Bitch and Animal , but lost to Rufus Wainwright.cite web|url= http://archive.glaad.org/publications/archive_detail.php? id=3549 |title=Nominees for the 15th Annual GLAAD Media Awards |publisher=GLAAD Publication Archives |accessdate=2011-01-22
200608: Impeach My Bush
For her third album, 2006's Impeach My Bush , Peaches enlisted guest musicians Joan Jett , Greg Kurstin , Josh Homme , Samantha Maloney , Beth Ditto , Feist (singer)|Feist , Dave Catching , Brian O'Connor (bassist)|Brian O'Connor and Radio Sloan to perform on several of the tracks.
The Herms (short for hermaphrodite s) were formed in spring 2006 as Peaches' live backing band. They played at both small and large venues with sex and sex-related themes as the "shock factor" for the audience.Citation needed|date=September 2009 "Herms" is also a reference to 1970s duo Peaches & Herb and the blending of the words 'her' and 'him'. Peaches and Herms was the opening act for Nine Inch Nails and Bauhaus (band)|Bauhaus during the second half of their 2006 summer U.S. tour.
In August 2006, Peaches posed for an anti- Seal hunting|seal culling advertisement campaign created by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) called "Fur is Dead". The advertisement featured an image of Peaches juxtaposed with an image of a baby seal being clubbed, with the words "Canada's Club Scene Sucks" printed over the image of Peaches.cite web|url= http://www.peta2.com/outthere/o-peaches_sealpsa.asp|title=Peaches Thinks Canadas Club Scene Sucks& #33; |publisher=PETA |accessdate=2011-01-22
In 2007 Peaches posed as a model for an advertisement by the Vestal Watches company. The advertisement was shown in The Fader magazine.cite web|url= http://adage.com/songsforsoap/post? article_id=122063 |title=Electric Raunch to High Fashion in 60-Seconds |publisher=Advertising Age |accessdate=2011-01-22
Peaches was nominated for her album "Impeach My Bush" in the category "Outstanding Music Artist" at the 18th GLAAD Media Awards along with the Ditty Bops , Owen Pallett , Pet Shop Boys , and the Scissor Sisters , but lost to the Scissor Sisters.cite web|url= http://archive.glaad.org/publications/resource_doc_detail.php? id=3953 |title=GLAAD: 18th ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS NOMINEES |publisher=Archive.glaad.org |date= |accessdate=2010-06-09
Peaches played live at the Parklife Festival in Australia , in the fall of 2008, with her now current Germany|German live band Sweet Machine .
2009present: I Feel Cream
Her fourth album I Feel Cream , was released on May 4, 2009 in Europe, and May 5 in North America.cite web|url= http://www.peachesrocks.com |title=I Feel Cream release date |publisher=Peachesrocks.com |date= |accessdate=2010-06-09 The first single from the album is a double A-side of " Talk to Me (Peaches song)|Talk to Me " and "More".cite web|url= http://www.chartattack.com/news/66380/peaches-leaks-cream |title=Peaches Leaks Cream |publisher=CHARTattack |date= |accessdate=2010-06-09 Peaches enlisted some of her contemporaries to co-produce a number of tracks including Simian Mobile Disco, Soulwax, Digitalism and Shapemod. Long time friend and collaborator Gonzales co-wrote some of the songs on I Feel Cream and Shunda K (the voice of Yo Majesty ) featured on the track "Billionaire".cite web|url= http://fanaticpromotion.blogspot.com/2010/01/shunda-k-tours-with-peaches-in.html |title=Shunda K |publisher=Fanaticpromotion.blogspot.com |date=2010-01-28 |accessdate=2010-06-09
Peaches has been noted for her stage costumes and flamboyant sense of style. Her looks are often both nostalgic and futuristic; aggressive and glamorous; and push the limits of gender identity. Peaches and her band Sweet Machine wear costumes from a variety of designers but most notably she works closely with stylist/designer Vaughan Alexander, celebrity hairstylist Charlie Le Mindu, and young American fashion designer, John Renaud.
In 2010, Peaches and backing band Sweet Machine once again toured Australia performing at the sold out Big Day Out festivals and at a series of sideshows. Peaches was supported on this tour by Shunda K who performed their collaboration "Billionaire" at BDO festivals and at the sideshows, and was also the opening act at the sideshows.
On March 14, 2010, Peaches won the 'Electronic Artist of the Year' award at the 10th Annual Independent Music Awards held in Toronto, Canada.cite news|last=Stevenson |first=Jane |url= http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/music/2010/03/14/13224341-qmi.html |title=Pop-punk band Marianas Trench top Indies & #124; Music & #124; Entertainment |publisher=Toronto Sun |date=2010-03-14 |accessdate=2010-06-09cite web|url= http://xlrecordings.com/2010/03/15/favorite-electronic-artist-of-the-year |title=XL Recordings / 'Favorite Electronic Artist of the Year' |publisher=Xlrecordings.com |date=2010-03-14 |accessdate=2010-06-09
In March 2010, the copyright owners of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar denied Peaches permission to perform her one-woman version of it that she was planning to stage in Berlin. After receiving the attention of several media outlets, Peaches successfully negotiated with those rights-holders, and the musical was performed on March 2527 at Berlin's Hebbel am Ufer|HAU1 .cite web|url= http://pitchfork.com/news/38163-news-in-brief-the-strokes-peaches-dr-dog-ether-festival/ |title=News in Brief: The Strokes, Peaches, Dr. Dog, Ether Festival |publisher=Pitchfork |date= |accessdate=2010-06-09 Gonzales (musician)|Gonzales accompanied Peaches on piano.cite web|author=Veronica |url= http://www.peachesrocks.com/site/2010/03/1382/ |title=Peaches Christ Superstar & #124; Peaches Official Site |publisher=Peachesrocks.com |date=2010-03-27 |accessdate=2010-06-09 Travis Jeppesen stated in his review for Artforum , "Not only did Peaches set it off, she managed to surprise us all by showing off an expansive vocal range, a musician's natural sensitivity to the dynamics of Andrew Lloyd Webber's score, and an emotive prowess that is rarely if ever displayed in her own, less holy, music." cite web|url= http://artforum.com/diary/id=25241 |title=Teaches of Peaches |publisher=Artforum |accessdate=2011-01-22
Peaches appeared in a film called Ivory Tower (2010 film)|Ivory Tower , which also includes spots from Feist (singer)|Feist , Chilly Gonzales , Tiga (musician)|Tiga and Gonzales' mother. Peaches stars as Marsha, a performance artist engaged to a man named Thaddeus ( Tiga (musician)|Tiga ). Things get complicated when her ex, Hershall ( Gonzales (musician)|Gonzales ) comes back into her life. The movie is set in Toronto and was shot over 13 days in late Winter/early Spring 2010. It was co-written by Gonzales (musician)|Gonzales and Cιline Sciamma (who directed/wrote Water Lilies (film)|Water Lilies ), was directed by Adam Traynor and produced by Nicolas Kazarnia. Ivory Tower (2010 film)|Ivory Tower was given a limited theatrical release in August 2010.Harper, Kate (2010-04-07). http://www.chartattack.com/news/80761/peaches-feist-gonzales-tiga-in-indie-flick Peaches, Feist, Gonzales, Tiga In Indie Flick Chart (magazine)|Chartattack . Retrieved 2010-05-27.
In May 2010, Christina Aguilera announced that Peaches was among the collaborators on her fourth studio album Bionic (Christina Aguilera album)|Bionic . Peaches is featured on a track called "My Girls".(2010-04-24). http://www.saturdaynightonline.com/christina-chat-4-24-2010-replay Christina Aguilera Interview Saturday Night Online Retrieved 2010-04-03.cite web|url= http://www.chartattack.com/news/81284/peaches-worked-on-christina-aguileras-new-album |title=Retrieved 2010-04-03 |publisher=Chartattack.com |date=2010-04-24 |accessdate=2010-06-09 The song was co-written and produced by Le Tigre .
On August 30, 2010, Peaches released a new single titled " Johnny (Suicide song)#Peaches remix|Jonny ". The single is part of a tribute series to Alan Vega from the band Suicide (band)|Suicide . Other musicians who have released tribute singles as part of the series include The Horrors , Primal Scream , Klaxons and Bruce Springsteen .cite web|url= http://www.clashmusic.com/news/new-peaches-due |title=New Peaches Single Due: Tribute to Alan Vega |publisher=Clash Music |accessdate=2011-01-22cite web|url= http://www.urb.com/2010/08/05/peaches-to-release-tribute-to-alan-vega/ |title=Peaches to Release Tribute To Alan Vega |publisher=URB Magazine |accessdate=2011-01-22
Peaches also appears as a guest musician on R.E.M. 's 2011 release Collapse into Now , contributing vocals to the song "Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter".cite web|url= http://www.chartattack.com/features/2011/mar/14/video-of-the-day-rems-alligator-aviator-autopilot-antimatter-featuring-peaches |title=Video Of The Day: R.E.M.'s "Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter" (Featuring Peaches) |publisher= Chart (magazine)|Chartattack |accessdate=2011-03-16
Themes
Gender identity is one theme of Peaches' music, often playing with traditional notions of gender role s representation. Her lyrics and live shows consciously Genderfuck|blur the Gender binary|distinction between male and female; for example, she appears on the cover of her album Fatherfucker with a full beard. When asked if she had chosen the title for shock value, she commented:
bquote|Why do we call our mothers motherfuckers? Why do we stub our toe and say, "Aww motherfucker!"? What is a motherfucker? ... We use it in our everyday language, and it's such an insanely intense word. I'm not one to shy away from these obscene terms that we actually have in our mainstream. Motherfucker is a very mainstream word. But if we're going to use motherfucker, why don't we use fatherfucker? I'm just trying to be even to both sexes.cite news| author= Kitty Empire | url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2003/aug/17/features.review17 | title= Ripe for stardom | work = The Observer | publisher = The Guardian | date=2003-08-17 | accessdate=2010-06-09 | location=London
She disputes accusations of " penis envy ", preferring the term "hermaphrodite envy,"She tells interviewers she has hermaphrodite envy, not penis envy." Jessica Suarez, http://www.rhino.com/rzine/storykeeper.lasso? StoryID=853 Review: "Peaches Impeach My Bush (XL)," Rhino Entertainment|Rhino Review . since "there is so much male and female in us all."cite web|url= http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp? MemberId=2489002478& ShowSims=Y |title=Profile from Peaches |publisher=bebo.com |date=2006-11-07 |accessdate=2010-06-09
Ageing|Age has been another theme of Peaches' music in recent years. The lyrics from several songs from her 2009 album I Feel Cream tackle the issue of age, including Trick or Treat ("you lick my crow's feet"), Show Stopper ("Never mind my age, it's like we're breaking out of a cage") and Mommy Complex . Peaches has criticized ageism directed against her,cite web|url= http://www.princesssuperstar.com/press/features/urb_feat03.shtml |title=Urb Feature 2003 (with Peaches) |publisher=Princess Superstar |date= |accessdate=2010-06-09 telling the Daily News (New York)|New York Daily News that "I'm going to make aging cool".cite web|author=Jim Farber |url= http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2009/05/15/2009-05-15_rock_star_peaches_promises_to_make_aging_cool.html |title=Rock star Peaches promises to make aging cool |publisher=Nydailynews.com |date=2009-05-14 |accessdate=2010-06-09
Inspiration
Peaches lists John Waters (filmmaker)|John Waters , Cindy Sherman , Paul McCarthy and the films Tron , Grease (film)|Grease , Liquid Sky and Phantom of the Paradise as inspiration for the visuals in her live shows.cite web|url= http://www.lifelounge.com/music/interview/interview-with-peaches.aspx |title=Interview with Peaches |publisher=Lifelounge |date=2010-02-12 |accessdate=2010-03-12
The song " Fuck the Pain Away " was used in a scene in the film Lost in Translation (film)|Lost in Translation in which Bob and Charlotte, the two main characters, find themselves in a strip club. The song does not appear on the soundtrack CD. It was also featured in 30 Rock (Season 4 Episode 14), Jackass Number Two , in the Old Man Balls scene, a " South Park " episode called " Butters' Bottom Bitch " and in the horror film My Little Eye and appeared in "Drive Angry" (2011).
"Operate" is played during the Halloween house party scene in the film Mean Girls . It also appears in Waiting... (film)|Waiting... and during a wet t-shirt contest in the episode "Nevada State" of Las Vegas (TV series)|Las Vegas .
She performed the song "I U She" on season two of The L Word , in the episode titled "L'Chaim". The same song appeared on the show's season two soundtrack when she performed live in an episode.
" Boys Wanna Be Her " was played at the end of the fourth episode of season 4 of The L Word , when Katherine Moennig 's character, Shane McCutcheon , modelled underwear for Hugo Boss AG|Hugo Boss . It also was played in the Ugly Betty episode "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", advertisements for the FX series Dirt (TV series)|Dirt and the soundtrack for the 2009 film Whip It (film)|Whip It! . A remix version of the song is also in the EA game Need for Speed Pro Street.(The remix is called Tommie Sunshine's Brooklyn Fire Retouch)
The Gap (clothing retailer)|The Gap used the song "Do Ya" in their Fall 2006 TV ad campaign titled "Jeans Take Shape".
On The Mighty Boosh (2006 stage show)|The Mighty Boosh Live DVD, Bollo is singing " Fuck the Pain Away " in the tribute song to Naboo.
"You Love It" was played at the ending of the CSI: NY season 3 episode "Oedipus Hex".
Peaches' " Kick It " with Iggy Pop is on the soundtrack for Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition .
" Set It Off (Peaches song)|Set it Off " is heard in the movie Cashback (film)|Cashback . This is the second time a Peaches song appears in a strip club scene, the other being Lost in Translation (film)|Lost in Translation . "Set It Off" is also used in " The Cut (BBC series)|The Cut " (episode title: Rewind Me).cite web|url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1545432/soundtrack |title=Rewind Me |publisher=IMDb.com |accessdate=2010-05-13
" Kick It " is featured on the commercial in Australia for the 2008 Subaru impreza.
The song "The Inch" was used in the film Itty Bitty Titty Committee in the scene where Shulie and Calvin are hooking up in the car while Anna and Sadie are doing the same in the motel room.
The song "Mud" was used in the second episode of The Vampire Diaries (TV series)|The Vampire Diaries (episode title: The Night of the Comet) when Elena confronts Jeremy about his behavior.
"Show Stopper" was featured on an episode of Gossip Girl in 2009. http://www.gossipgirlshow.org/page/307%3A+How+to+Succeed+in+Bassness How to Succeed in Bassness gossipgirlshow.org Retrieved 2010-04-2.
The song Fuck the Pain Away was used as Liz Lemons cell phone ringtone during the episode of 30 Rock entitled " Future Husband ". The lyrics Huh, What, Right, Uhh can be heard. "Operate" is played during the Halloween house party scene in the film Mean Girls, a film scripted by Fey, creator, writer, producer and star of 30 Rock .
The song "Take You On" was used in promos for Kell on Earth .
In 2011 the song "Boys Wanna Be Her" was featured in a commercial for the 2011 Subaru Forester. The commercial features Japanese Sumo wrestlers riding and sitting on the vehicles in their traditional dress with the slogan "Sexy comes standard".
Covers and samples
Peaches covered Berlin (band)|Berlin 's " Sex (I'm A...) " as an extra track on the Teaches of Peaches bonus disc
Peaches and the band Electric Six are friends, and have each covered one of the other's songs; Peaches covered " Gay Bar (song)|Gay Bar " and Electric Six covered " Rockshow (Peaches song)|Rockshow ".
Peaches sampled Joan Jett 's " Bad Reputation (Joan Jett song)|Bad Reputation " for the song "I Don't Give a..."
Peaches did a parody of Alanis Morissette 's version of The Black Eyed Peas ' " My Humps '" called http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=I2Py6uUPV_c "My Humps, My Dumps".(2007-06-21). http://www.spin.com/articles/peaches-and-scream Peaches and Scream Spin (magazine)|SPIN . Retrieved 2010-07-20. Yo Majesty and Inara George also appear in the video.
Peaches covered the The Stooges (band)|Stooges ' song " Search and Destroy (The Stooges song)|Search and Destroy " for the " War Child Presents Heroes " benefit album.
