Biography
Blending fantasy and the everyday within sensuous alternative rock songs packed with hooks, Jane Jensen draws on her theater training plus links to the worlds of comics and film. Her first solo outing came in 1996 via the industrial-tinged Comic Book Whore; afterward she explored hard-edged power pop and disco among other styles, while the 2007 album My Rockabye added country, folk, and blues textures.
Originally based in Indianapolis, she relocated to Chicago and enrolled at Columbia College to study music, audio arts, and theater. During the early 1990s she performed with multiple groups, most prominently Oxygiene 23, a project shared with Jim Marcus and Van Christie from the industrial outfit Die Warzau. The three musicians placed a track on a 1993 compilation from Martin Atkins’ Invisible Records before issuing the atmospheric, occasionally jazzy Blue on Fifth Column Records in 1995.
Residing in New York City at the time, she took the lead role in the cult favorite Tromeo & Juliet and contributed to its soundtrack. She then joined Flip Records/Interscope and issued Comic Book Whore in 1996; Craig Kafton produced the set, which earned college and alternative airplay especially for the lead single “More Than I Can.” Jensen toured across the United States and Australia, appearing with L7, Green Day, Gravity Kills, and Porno for Pyros.
She co-produced the follow-up Burner alongside Kafton and longtime downtown New Yorker Martin Bisi; the record featured denser arrangements that merged hip-hop drum breaks, heavy buzzing guitars, and girl-group pop melodies. First released on her own Autozen imprint in 2000, it later received the Best Alternative Album award from Just Plain Folks. Jensen assembled the all-female band the Dollz and played regularly at independent film festivals as well as CBGB’s.
After appearing in several films and television series, including USA Network’s Big Apple, she returned in 2007 with the more acoustic and country-leaning My Rockabye. The EP Privateer, Pt. 1 arrived the following year, the four-song Dollzrock EP surfaced in 2015, and Trust followed in 2017.
Originally based in Indianapolis, she relocated to Chicago and enrolled at Columbia College to study music, audio arts, and theater. During the early 1990s she performed with multiple groups, most prominently Oxygiene 23, a project shared with Jim Marcus and Van Christie from the industrial outfit Die Warzau. The three musicians placed a track on a 1993 compilation from Martin Atkins’ Invisible Records before issuing the atmospheric, occasionally jazzy Blue on Fifth Column Records in 1995.
Residing in New York City at the time, she took the lead role in the cult favorite Tromeo & Juliet and contributed to its soundtrack. She then joined Flip Records/Interscope and issued Comic Book Whore in 1996; Craig Kafton produced the set, which earned college and alternative airplay especially for the lead single “More Than I Can.” Jensen toured across the United States and Australia, appearing with L7, Green Day, Gravity Kills, and Porno for Pyros.
She co-produced the follow-up Burner alongside Kafton and longtime downtown New Yorker Martin Bisi; the record featured denser arrangements that merged hip-hop drum breaks, heavy buzzing guitars, and girl-group pop melodies. First released on her own Autozen imprint in 2000, it later received the Best Alternative Album award from Just Plain Folks. Jensen assembled the all-female band the Dollz and played regularly at independent film festivals as well as CBGB’s.
After appearing in several films and television series, including USA Network’s Big Apple, she returned in 2007 with the more acoustic and country-leaning My Rockabye. The EP Privateer, Pt. 1 arrived the following year, the four-song Dollzrock EP surfaced in 2015, and Trust followed in 2017.
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