Meredith Graves

Meredith Graves
Meredith Graves at the Pitchfork Festival 2014
Background information
Born	(1987-09-05) 5 September 1987 (age 29)
Genres	Hardcore, Noise, Punk
Instruments	Guitar, Vocals
Years active	2006-present
Labels	Captured Tracks
Associated acts	Perfect Pussy, So Stressed, Busdriver, Kevin Devine, Mouse and the Love & Light Orkestra

Meredith Graves (born 1987) is a musician, writer, and anchor at MTV News. She is the frontwoman for the American punk rock band Perfect Pussy.

Graves began playing piano and guitar at age 11, and touring by age 19; her mother is also a performer, in musical theater. Her father is a journalist.

Graves learned to sew in high school and worked as a seamstress during and after college.

Prior to forming the band Shoppers, Graves led a band called Mouse and the Love & Light Orkestra.

Graves was a guitarist and vocalist for Syracuse noise rock trio, Shoppers. The A.V. Club described their 2011 release Silver Year as "a short, intense breakup album about the terrible things we’re capable of when our feelings are hurt;"Punk News called it "top notch noise-rock."

Graves currently fronts the hardcore punk band Perfect Pussy, founded in 2012 in Syracuse, New York. After Shoppers disbanded, film director Scott Coffey asked Graves to appear in his movie Adult World, shooting in upstate New York. Graves assembled a "fake band" and wrote a song for the film, but even after filming, the group continued performing together, and posted their first demo I Have Lost All Desire for Feeling to Bandcamp in 2013.

Billboard called Perfect Pussy's first demo "purpose-filled, bone-rattling and brisk, the kind of electrically charged debut that can shock a jaded blogger out of his torpor."

In 2015, Graves founded a music label called Honor Press. Though Graves's own background is in hardcore, Honor Press is not an exclusively punk label; instead Graves describes the label's priorities as "No snobs, no phonies and no shitheads." She told New York Magazine that her positive experience making music for the label Captured Tracks had been the inspiration for Honor Press.