Les Insoumises

Peer Pressure is a straight foward, tough as nail, hardcore band from Quebec city. Formed in 2018, the band, fronted by singer Victoria Mladenovski , released a first EP that made lots of waves within the local punk/hardcore/metal community, and beyond. After a few shows around the province, Victoria quickly gained the reputation of being a fierce performer, with powerful vocals, that will make you wanna 2-step your way to the pit in a second. The group just released their first opus, so we got in touch with her to talk about it, and how it all begun. First of all, congrats on the new album, it's such a powerful kick to the face, from start to finish! How does it feel to finally put out your first full length? We are beyond proud to finally share “Catharsis”, which is heavily focussed on mental illnesses. We’ve worked so hard as a band from the start. We are still quite “new” to the scene, so putting out our first full length is just overwhelming. It hasn’t been an easy roa...

1- Where is the band from and what's the best thing to do there? Michelle: Los Angeles California, visiting thee observatory/ then grabbing a bite to eat at Clifton’s and end it at the Redwood bar in dtla for some live rock n’ roll! Suzi: We are from Los Angeles, CA - the land of rock n roll! The best stuff to do here is... Eat tacos, go to the beach, make music with your friends, and hangout at all the badass music venues around the city! We actually all met at The Redwood Bar in Downtown LA! Rikki: LA baby! The best thing is music and art. 2- What does your name stand for and what was the runner up? Michelle: A female terminating Machine from the future past. and there was actually no runner up! Suzie: L.A. Machina is a robo babe supergroup from the future sent back in time to save rock n roll! We didn't really have any runner up names, we knew this was it!! Rikki: There was no runner up. We are machines together. Working together. 3- Describe your sound usi...

1- Where is the band from and what's the best thing to do there? We’re born and raised in L.A., growing up in Silverlake and Echo Park, which is also where Flames Of Durga was birthed. We love playing shows, going to shows, being mermaids at the beach, checking out all kinds of art and hiking with our dogs. We had the opportunity to buy a house and decided we wanted a place where we could get loud and work from home. Joshua Tree stole our hearts and last year we found an awesome pad that we’ve been working on since. We intuitively decided to ditch our small LA apartment and move to Joshua Tree in March 2020, then a few weeks later quarantine hit! Good timing I guess, even tho we still have our shared music studio in east LA, and our heart goes out to our friends and family living in the big city. 2- What does your name stand for and what was the runner up? We knew we wanted the element of fire and a goddess name to represent our music. We were brainstorming one day and t...