Jessica Robbins
Wrote her first song in third grade about the distant and mysterious planet saturn.
Today her songs focus the same sense of wonderment and reverie on subjects a little closer to the heart. Whether it's the Gillian Welch sentimentality or the Bon Iver-like thump of an acoustic guitar, Jessica pulls from a variety of inspirations. The lively spirit of her upbeat tunes is infectious, while a ribbon of formidable resolve weaves through her songs of trouble and loss. Her natural, flowing sense of phrasing and meter belies the hours of hard work spent honing her craft - not surprising, coming from a girl who founded her own start-up education business after graduating from Harvard. In 2010 Jessica released her first album "Dear Fred" to positive reviews, and she has continued to play to admiring audiences all over her native Chicago. Time Out Chicago called Jessica a promising new artist and wrote that her “smart songs veer toward the folkier end of the rock spectrum but often recall the bite of Aimee Mann”. This June she will release a new EP, “Habitat”. Her songs explore the mysterious side of love, loss and zombies - Jessica truly enjoys the wild, electric combination of inspiration, spontaneity and music