Jack Off Jill was an American alternative rock band from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, founded in 1992 by vocalist Jessicka, drummer Tenni Ah-Cha-Cha, bassist/keyboardist Agent Moulder, and guitarist Michelle Inhell.
Though these four women were the initial founders, nine members rotated through the group in its life-span, including Scott Putesky, guitarist and co-founder of Marilyn Manson.
[9] They took inspiration from the riot grrrl movement, with songs addressing serious issues such as rape, domestic abuse, self harm, depression, patriarchy, and female empowerment.
On April 8, 1994, while playing a benefit show for Rock Against Domestic Violence with Babes in Toyland and 7 Year Bitch at the Cameo Theatre on Miami Beach, the band caught the eye of record labels.
On September 9, 1997, their first full-length album, Sexless Demons and Scars (produced by Gumball's leader Don Fleming, who co-produced Hole's Pretty on the Inside), was released.
After touring with Lords of Acid,[14] Jack Off Jill headed to Los Angeles to complete 1998's Covetous Creature, a remix EP of songs from Sexless Demons and Scars, with the help of Scott Putesky (a founding member of Marilyn Manson) and new drummer Claudia Rossi.
The band road-tested new songs in March 1999 when JOJ played four dates on the Marilyn Manson Rock Is Dead Tour, after Hole departed.
On July 17, 2000, JOJ released their second full-length CD, Clear Hearts Grey Flowers on Risk Records, that featured a cover by artist Mark Ryden and was produced by Chris Vrenna of Tweaker and Nine Inch Nails.
They were joined onstage by guitarist Helen Storer of the UK all-female band Fluffy (and later of Thee Heavenly Music Association) and producer Chris Vrenna on drums.
Post-breakup, critics have touted JOJ as "riot-goth legends"[18] and refer to Jack Off Jill's final album as "excellent, yet under-appreciated".
[20] In September 2013, founding member of Marilyn Manson and Jack Off Jill guitarist Putesky was diagnosed with stage-four colon cancer.