LA-based singer-songwriter Jesse Jo Stark is gearing up to release her new single and music video for “Tangerine” on Friday, August 21st. The new single is the first to follow her gorgeous rendition of the John Prine classic “Angel from Montgomery” released in April.
Jesse Jo is romance 70s AM radio with your lovers head on your shoulder. She is the last of the true California girls. Heavy strokes of sex and cinematic grit. Like the devils wind she’ll have you driving down the PCH with the top down. Starks voice is soft like velvet, a hypnotic seductress on stage, holding the audience in the palm of her stiletto-nailed hand. Whether it is to dance or cry, she will move you. And you will want her to. She’s not following the culture. She’s creating it.
In the midst of her being in and out of the studio, Stark also joins YUNGBLUD in his new music video for “Strawberry Lipstick.” A nod to UK punk, the video is a swirl of whirlwind intensity true to the artist’s chaotic charisma and a visual feast that places the duo in a series of outlandish scenarios. A perfect foil to YUNGBLUD, Stark is a captivating presence. Says Stark of working together, “dom…radical…loved bein inside of his brain…punk lives. thanks uncle Steve (Jones).”
An LA-native with a lifelong immersion in rock ‘n’ roll, Jesse Jo Stark’s story seeps through her music—a heady, stylized mix of earthy Americana and Hollywood allure. The music is timeless with unmissable nods to 70s rock, classic country, and ethereal pop, while heavy strokes of sex and kitsch add a playfulness to the workmanship of her songwriting. Sitting at a mesmerizing cross-section of Mazzy Star, Fleetwood Mac, and Lee Hazlewood, to listen to Jesse Jo Stark, is to step into an artfully crafted other world—cinematic and consuming. Glossy and gritty. A Tarantino film in under five minutes.