The queen of NSFW music on her new album, how Annie Sprinkle shaped her world and how we might ease the friction and dryness of the modern world.
Part exhibitionist, part performance artist, all fearless feminist, Peaches is the queen of NSFW music. When she dropped her debut album The Teaches of Peaches on the world in 2000, the electroclash artist ignited a revolution in sexuality and sound. The single “Fuck the Pain Away” became an anthem of self-expression. (HUSTLER was there to help “expose” Peaches’ talents to the world, featuring her in an interview in the July 2003 issue.)
Six albums, countless tours and two documentary films later, she continues to be an original, brash voice in the world. Peaches isn’t for everyone, but she is for us. That is why, when we heard she was about to drop her first new album in ten years—the perfectly titled No Lube So Rude—we knew it was time to catch up. Over a recent Zoom conversation, we discussed everything from Annie Sprinkle to why the world today could use some lube.
HUSTLERMagazine.com: Are you okay being interviewed by us?
Peaches: Yes. It’s important to be interviewed by everybody. I don’t want to just be interviewed by one-sided publications, limited to just women’s feminist magazines for menopausal rights. It’s good to have that, but also to branch it out.
Do you have any history with HUSTLER?
I was in HUSTLER Magazine… It was so great because I was there in the middle of the magazine, between the pros and the amateurs. It seemed like somebody’s art project, where they just slid me in. Pictures of me with a flaccid dildo, all sweaty on stage. I was very proud of HUSTLER for putting those real pictures in. I felt seen. In the interview I was playing around and told them my favorite person was “three feet tall with a flat top. So I could put a beer on their head.” We had a lot of fun.
