Jessica Hopper is one of the most important music critics of the past decade. She is now the Senior Editor at Pitchfork and the editor-in-chief at The Pitchfork Review. Jessica has also authored two terrific books, The Girls' Guide To Rocking, and The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic. We caught Jessica days before her acclaimed keynote at the BigSound conference in Brisbane, Australia. We spoke to her about her career, her writing, her views on how Montessori schooling helped shape her, and of course, her most recent Twitter conversations which has made the music world stand up and take notice of the long running problem of gender inequality in the music industry.

Jessica can be followed at @jesshopp.