Evolved from four track musings, Petracovich's bedroom folk-tronica is a low-fi experience of intimate vocals, crafted songs and the introspective production of muffled beats and ambient textures. The music has been lauded in over 75 publications and received airplay on over 200 stations, including regular rotation on the iconic “Morning Becomes Eclectic” with Nic Harcourt of KCRW. Petracovich live consists of Jessica Peters on two keyboards, laptop and vocals and Heather Houseman on cello. The music has drawn comparisons to Aimee Mann (songwriting and vocals) and Sparklehorse, Portishead, and Tom Waits (production and mood).

MEDIA

Petracovich songs have been featured in the feature film "The Fog", (Sony Pictures), the television series "Over There", (FX), and award winning short films including "Wow and Flutter", winner of the Hamptons and Paste Magazine Film Festivals.

RADIO PLAY

AIRED ON OVER 200 STATIONS ACROSS THE US

KCRW "Morning Becomes Eclectic" in Santa Monica with Nic Harcourt -known as one of the most influential radio shows for independent music in the nation. “Blue Cotton Skin” charted at 22 and continues to get airplay.

KEXP in Seattle - John in the morning "(John) is the entry point to a world of people who take pride in discovering the authentic gems missed by the profit-crazed music industry." Pacific Northwest Magazine- Jan 2003

PRESS

"Top 10 albums of '05 - (We Are Wyoming). . .a sublime collision of piano, chiming bells, and drums."
Boston Globe, Dec. 2005

“Petracovich’s music is a perfect balance between rhythmic beats, atmospheric backdrops, striking images and angelic vocals. The sound, which has caught the ear of influential radio programmers, is simultaneously worldly and unworldly.”
Paste Magazine, Feb/March 2006

"Whether playing kalimba, synth or bells Peters has a knack for textural complexity. . .[and] wields a gorgeous voice that Mann freaks should love."
Magnet, Jan/Feb 2006

“From the first tentative notes of Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” on into a shadowy curtain of toy xylophone tinkles, airy whistles, and byby gurgles, it’s easy to picture (Petracovich) as the good piano student gone awry . . . as earnestly angelic and bent as Lynch balladeer Julee Cruise of the gentle experimentalists of Lali Puna.”
The Seattle Stranger, Sept 2005

“…a life sized music box…Lush, simple and beautiful, she is a minimalist emphasizing the importance of ambient silence as much as the sounds that break it up.’
Rochester City-News, Oct 2005

“The spacey atmospheres and ambient textures of we Are Wyoming are simply stunning. Hopeful and heavy and full of childlike wonder, We Are Wyoming wraps around you like a favorite blanket – make that several blankets.”
Lost At Sea Oct 2005

TOUR

44 City National Tour Fall '05
20 City National Tour Spring '04
Regular Touring of the West Coast

VENUES

Petracovich tours nationally and most recently completed a 44 city tour in the Fall of '05. She primarily performs at West Coast Venues including:

Bay Area - The Raven Theater, Café du Nord, The Red Devil Lounge, The Make Out Room, Amnesia, Hemlock Tavern and Zebulon's Lounge.
LA - Knitting Factory, Spaceland, Temple Bar, Echo, Hotel Café, Tangier Room, Club Violane, Detroit Bar,The Fold at Silverlake Lounge, and Room 5.
Seattle - Graceland , Tractor Tavern, Cafe Venus, Tost Lounge and Easy Street Records.
Portland - Holocene, Mississippi Studios, Mississippi Pizza Pub and The Red and Black Café.
Santa Barbara - Mercury Lounge, Soho, Victoria Hall, Red's and Zoey's.

Petracovich has performed with : Colin Hay, The Fixx, Venus Hum, Nyles Lannon, Jen Wood (Postal Service), Two Ton Boa, Mia Doi Todd, Halou, Zoe Keating, Tom Brosseau, Trespassers William, Odessa Chen, Film School, Renee Stahl, Robert Deeble, Fielding, The Incredible Moses Leroy, Kim Fox, and many more.

List of Past Shows