{"id":16563,"date":"2025-10-16T07:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16563"},"modified":"2025-10-16T07:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:17:50","slug":"jesika-von-rabbit-invokes-a-spellbinding-cover-of-donovans-season-of-the-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16563","title":{"rendered":"JESIKA VON RABBIT invokes a spellbinding cover of Donovan&#8217;s &#8220;Season of the Witch&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Halloween Treats from the Queen of the Hi-Desert!<br><\/strong><\/em><br>Joshua Tree&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>JESIKA VON RABBIT<\/strong>\u00a0has created a spellbinding cover version of Donovan&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Season of the Witch&#8221;<\/strong>, a favorite addition to her live setlists around Halloween time. Recorded and mixed by Jesika at the Rabbit Ranch, at midnight under the old October moon, the electro-psychedelic cover of &#8220;Season of the Witch&#8221; features Jesika on all instruments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"Season Of The Witch\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h08BlMxckGM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJesika Von Rabbit is one of Los Angeles\u2019 great musical one-offs. She\u2019s simultaneously pop and art, accessible and avant-garde. She\u2019s a mass of contradictions in the most glorious way and her influences, which touch on everything from \u201980s MTV pop to \u201970s tie-dye psychedelia, betray that very thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the live environment, she excels. She\u2019s part Berlin chanteuse, with dabs of Nico, and part performance artist. She\u2019s also a force of nature, and a local gem.\u201d &#8212; Brett Callwood, LA Weekly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJesika von Rabbit has been identified with the high desert music scene since before it was a scene.\u201d &#8212; The Desert Sun<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHer voice is like a doll that throws a punch, the vibe electric. She\u2019s the witch who lures you into a candy house, the siren who pulls you close \u2014 even though you know better. Surrounded by go-go dancers, illuminated by projected images both beautiful and strange, a Jesika von Rabbit concert is the equivalent of a dance party during the apocalypse. But with more bunny ears.\u201d &#8212; Magie Downs, Palm Springs Life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe is drop-dead gorgeous and has an absolutely incredible voice. But von Rabbit is more than a pretty chick singer. She is an innovative creator and expressionist as well as one hell of an entertainer\u2026 Her show is brilliantly nonsensical; a sonic and visual spectacle that is unlike any other and you cannot take your eyes away. She is an artist that you just have to keep coming back to see because you evolve every time you do.\u201d &#8212; Coachella Valley Weekly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Complex, sexy, and with just the right amount of quirk, &#8216;Bunnywood Babylon&#8217; comes across as grand, dazzling, and very colourful.&#8221; &#8212; Aaron Willschick\/V13 Media<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDanceable, commercial, and first-to-last-catchy\u2026deliciously sweet and pretty poisons indicates von Rabbit rapidly Wonkafying, cybernizing, and de-rusticating. She may well have more reinventions in her than David Bowie.\u201d &#8212; Ron Garmon, L.A. Record<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Formerly the frontwoman and chief songwriter of the trailblazing and iconic Joshua Tree act Gram Rabbit, Jesika von Rabbit has released two critically lauded solo albums, Journey Mitchell and Dessert Rock. Her third album, Bunnywood Babylon released worldwide on June 13, 2025 (Dionysus Records).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesika von Rabbit recently won \u201cBest Female Vocalist\u201d and \u201cBest Song\u201d at the Joshua Tree Voice Music Award Show. This is in addition to \u201cBest Female Performer\u201d multiple years in-a-row at the Coachella Valley Weekly Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesika von Rabbit has toured with the Eagles of Death Metal, and has performed at the Desert Daze festival, Camper van Beethoven\u2019s Campout festival, Joshua Tree Music Festival, Stoned and Dusted festival, Tiki Oasis, The Casbah stage at the Adams Ave Street Fair in San Diego, as well as San Francisco, Portland, and Palm Springs Pride. She has shared stages with acts as diverse as Wanda Jackson, Cat Power, The Melvins, The Crystal Method, and Sister Sledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesika von Rabbit\u2019s original compositions have been licensed to Fox\u2019s The Masked Singer for a commercial spot, CSI, NBC\u2019s Life, FX\u2019s Better Things, The Real World, Sons of Anarchy, Crash, Hit &amp; Miss, Crazy Stupid Love and War Inc., Grace and Frankie, a commercial spot for Fruit of the Loom which aired during the 2012 Summer Olympics, and Morgan Freeman\u2019s film 57 Seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dubbed &#8220;The Queen of the Hi-Desert,&#8221; JESIKA VON RABBIT is the torchbearer of the ever-vibrant Joshua Tree\/Hi-Desert music scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"Werewolves of London\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ujkcbLsv-ug?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Visit Jesika von Rabbit online:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Website:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesikavonrabbit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>www.jesikavonrabbit.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween Treats from the Queen of the Hi-Desert!Joshua Tree&#8217;s\u00a0JESIKA VON RABBIT\u00a0has created a spellbinding cover version of Donovan&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;Season of the Witch&#8221;, a favorite addition to her live setlists around Halloween time. Recorded and mixed by Jesika at the Rabbit Ranch, at midnight under the old October moon, the electro-psychedelic cover of &#8220;Season of the Witch&#8221;&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16563\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JESIKA VON RABBIT invokes a spellbinding cover of Donovan&#8217;s &#8220;Season of the Witch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16564,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16563\/revisions\/16564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}