Jane Fontana Bio

Jane Fontana performs near-punk futurism. She jumps and grinds, rails and coos inside a hyperdrive videogame of fat beats, chainsaw guitar, and samples, sliced and diced. The themes are despair and hope, sex and love, all with twistoflex intentions. It's as if the future is raw and weird, but somehow tight and even hummable. Her players are Manny Cat on bass, Brian Ginsberg on keyboards, Scooter Powell on drums, and Chris Redmond on guitar. They have bios that roll around Bjork, Ministry, Norman Brown, and Spinewire, and they regularly play the LA hotspots.

CREDITS: Not just a singer, Jane writes, produces, and sound designs instrumental electropop that is at times slinky and limber, and at others pumped and severe. Jane’s music can be heard in film and television, with credits including The 6th Day, starring Arnold Scharzennegger, Dawson’s Creek, and MTV’s Real World, Road Rules, Celebrity Undercover, and Tough Enough. Check out Jane’s latest film scoring work in 20th Century Fox’s Farm Sluts, and listen for her in the upcoming season of TLC’s Faking It.

TOM FARREL writes: Jane Fontana takes the hard rock thud of early Heart and wraps it in the Blade Runner society garb of techno industrial. It’s a heavier version of Garbage, less pop and more pow. Jane Fontana and her well-heeled band pour big, static bursts of pep squad enthusiasm into their performance, putting every musical horseshoe around the spike. The band delivered the goods with a whiff of alternative finesse, while Fontana, techno-warrior princess, led the mighty roar with vocals that could have been equally bellowed in the small, rockin’ club of still-working leather-lunged chick singers. Jane Fontana is a sight for sore eyes, and she’s built like a brick dollhouse. Fontana’s material is on the same par as her pole position -- good, aiming in the right direction and moving up.