Artist description Ophidian rock: music by reptiles, for reptiles- the cold blooded intelligentsia and the chemical elite- you know who you are. Plenty of guitars and thundering, cyclopean drummachines with a desperate and intense vocal to tie it all togeather. Pure gonzo Hell.

Music Style industrial goth rock... whatever...

Musical Influences the Sisters of Mercy, the Birthday Party, Fields of the Nephilim, Tom Waits, the Jesus and Mary Chain, etc., etc... the list goes on and on...

Similar Artists All and none of the above. Buy the CDs... judge for yourself...

Artist History Jessica's Crime formed way back in 1989 in a wretched little satellite community circling lazily around Dallas, Texas. Of course, back then they were still called SpeedKings, and most of their time was spent wearing their influences on a collective sleeve and convincing anyone who would listen that a real band didn't need things like technical skill to make a great record. It took almost six years for them to shake the conviction about skill, but they still wear their influences on their sleeves when the mood suits them. However, in the interim SpeedKings became Jessica's Crime, several great songs were written, numerous personnel were sacked, at least one person got themself killed, and various and sundry club owners were genuinely horrified by how tragically un-hip they were for not recognizing the embryonic genius of those early live shows. But when the smoke cleared in 1997, their much anticipated debut LP, 'Psychosemantic', was finally released and quickly received critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. With a functioning and legitimately righteous record under their wing, Jessica's Crime was able to embark upon a campaign of rock and roll terrorism in earnest. By 1998, they had slimmed down to a duo and the online world was opening it's arms to the MP3 revolution so, suddenly, people all over the world were catching on to the most underappreciated band of intellectual rock gods this side of Heaven. 1999 saw them weighing anchor and setting sail for Philadelphia and the frozen north while work began on the inevitable Next Record. In 2000, new material finally emerged in the form of the now impossibly rare singles 'Don't Cry' and 'Love is Vengeance' (a not so subtle hats off to the Who), while older material was re-released online with the second revision of 'Psychosemantic', as well as a collection of studio out-takes collectively dubbed 'The Mutiny EP'. 2001 saw the birth of thier second full length LP, the monstrously fabulous concept album, 'Scarecrow + Hizbollah' whereby Jessica's Crime were thrust, after more than a decade of bizarre twists and turns, into the most recent chapter of one of the most terminally groovy rock bands you're likely to find in this, or any other universe.

Group Members Aaron Bishop - vocals, guitar, programming. David Hellstrom - guitar, excessive distortion

Instruments guitars, basses, drum machines, and the occasional synth

Albums 'Wintersongs EP' (1995), 'Psychosemantic' (1997), 'The Mutiny EP' (2000), 'Don't Cry' maxi-single (2000), 'Love is Vengeance' maxi-single (2000), 'Scarecrow + Hizbollah' (2001), 'Letters to Suzuka: an Anthology' (2002)

Press Reviews "I think the key reason I like this album so much is that the band have taken a genre which I had thought dull and staid, and self-produced an album which really stands out against bands with a lot more money to throw at things - all the while keeping an innovative edge and refusing to succumb to the temptation of banging out clichéd commercial stuff which would probably make them a lot more money." -David Ellard, reprinted from uk.people.gothic March 3, 1998

Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - USA

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