Jesika von Rabbit doesn’t fit neatly into a genre—and that’s the point. A magnetic frontwoman, songwriter, and performance artist from California’s unique Hi-Desert area of Joshua Tree, Jesika delivers a genre-bending collision of psychedelic rock, electro, desert noir, punk attitude, and camp camp. Her music is weird, sexy, intelligent, funny, and unexpectedly vulnerable—but it’s her completely singular live presence that has made her one of the most recognizable artists to emerge from the Joshua Tree scene.
Former frontwoman and chief songwriter of the trailblazing desert act Gram Rabbit, Jesika has spent years developing a musical and visual universe that is unmistakably her own. As a solo artist, she has released three albums—Journey Mitchell, Dessert Rock, and Bunnywood Babylon—along with a steady stream of singles and visually arresting videos.
Live, Jesika is anything but a conventional club act. She is the show. Dressed in technicolor costumes and moving between dance, rock performance, theatricality, she commands the room with a combination of danger, humor, sexuality, and genuine emotional connection. Her band features longtime collaborator Lee Joseph on bass/guitar and Beak Wing on drums, and performance artist / backup vocalist Erin Gurle.
The result is a full-scale performance experience designed to be seen as much as heard—part concert, part psychedelic theater, part desert fever dream.
Jesika has built a touring and festival history, performing at Coachella (with her former band Gram Rabbit), Desert Daze, Joshua Tree Music Festival, Camper Van Beethoven’s Campout, Stoned and Dusted, Tiki Oasis, the Casbah stage at the Adams Avenue Street Fair, the Gram Parsons dedicated Gram Fest in Joshua Tree, along with performances throughout California and nationally. She has appeared at Pride events in San Francisc, San Diego, Palm Springs, and Riverside and has shared club and festival stages with artists including Wanda Jackson, Reverend Horton Heat, Cat Power, The Dandy Warhols, The Melvins, Eagles of Death Metal, Dengue Fever, The Crystal Method, Missing Persons, and Sister Sledge.
Her work has also reached beyond the independent music circuit, with original compositions licensed for film and television including Fox’s The Masked Singer, CSI, NBC’s Life, FX’s Better Things, The Real World, Sons of Anarchy, Crash, Hit & Miss, Crazy, Stupid, Love, War, Inc., Grace and Frankie and Morgan Freeman’s 57 Seconds. Her music has also appeared in a Fruit of the Loom commercial that aired during the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Recognition from her home scene has followed. Jesika has received Best Female Vocalist and Best Song honors at the Joshua Tree Voice Music Award Show, in addition to multiple consecutive Best Female Performer wins at the Coachella Valley Weekly Awards. Known throughout the region as “The Queen of the Hi-Desert,” she remains a central and highly distinctive figure in the ever-evolving Joshua Tree/High Desert music community.
Jesika von Rabbit offers something increasingly rare: a genuinely original artist with a fully developed visual identity and a live show people remember. Her performance can scale from an intimate club environment to festival stages, while the combination of music, theatrical elements, and desert mystique gives her a strong visual footprint for events looking for something beyond a standard band setup.
Jesika von Rabbit is not background music. She is an experience—and she leaves an impression.
Her voice is like a doll that throws a punch, the vibe electric. She’s the witch who lures you into a candy house, the siren who pulls you close — even though you know better. Surrounded by go-go dancers, illuminated by projected images both beautiful and strange, a Jesika von Rabbit concert is the equivalent of a dance party during the apocalypse. But with more bunny ears. Maggie Downs – Palm Springs Life
Jesika von Rabbit has been identified with the high desert music scene since before it was a scene. The Desert Sun.
Jesika Von Rabbit is one of Los Angeles’ great musical one-offs. She’s simultaneously pop and art, accessible and avant-garde. She’s a mass of contradictions in the most glorious way and her influences, which touch on everything from ’80s MTV pop to ’70s tie-dye psychedelia, betray that very thing. In the live environment, she excels. She’s part Berlin chanteuse, with dabs of Nico, and part performance artist. She’s also a force of nature, and a local gem. Brett Callwood – The L.A. Weekly
She is drop-dead gorgeous and has an absolutely incredible voice. But von Rabbit is more than a pretty chick singer. She is an innovative creator and expressionist as well as one hell of an entertainer… Her show is brilliantly nonsensical; a sonic and visual spectacle that is unlike any other and you cannot take your eyes away. She is an artist that you just have to keep coming back to see because you evolve every time you do. Coachella Valley Weekly
Danceable, commercial, and first-to-last-catchy, this album’s assortment of deliciously sweet and pretty poisons indicates von Rabbit rapidly Wonkafying, cybernizing, and de-rusticating. She may well have more reinventions in her than David Bowie. Ron Garmon – L.A. Record
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