Founding member and lead vocalist Aaron Bishop has cited the band's "day-jobs in professional academia" as the primary reason for their occasional, long periods of apparent quiescence.
As of the release of their 2006 record Gone to Texas, Jessica's Crime comprises two members: founder J. Aaron Bishop (guitars, vocals, bass, programming, etc.)
The original lineup that would become Jessica's Crime coalesced around Aaron Bishop and Boone in 1989, under the moniker Mistress Christia—a name taken from an obscure series of surrealist science fiction novels by British author Michael Moorcock, later abandoned in light of the disquieting consonance with the Night Ranger power ballad "Sister Christian".
"[4] Critics have drawn comparisons with groups as varied as The Sisters of Mercy,[5][6] Nick Cave, White Zombie, The Jesus and Mary Chain,[7] Fields of the Nephilim, and even New Order and Johnny Cash.
[8] In a 2008 review of Gone to Texas, seminal Death-Rock music critic Mick Mercer picked up on the Sisters and Nephilim undercurrents, describing the record's eponymous track as "Preacher Man waltzing with Vision Thing," while the disc's third track––the jazz-tinged Gateway Shuffle––was likened, somewhat surprisingly, to Goth-folksters The Dancing Did.