What is a Jenocide?
Jenocide is an indie-electro act which plays upbeat dance music. With her shredding synths, powerful beats and roaring but sweet vocals, Jenocide is not your average east coast girl with keytar…what? Jenocide works her way into the audience for an interactive concert experience to push and shove the crowd into a spontaneous party atmosphere.
Jenocide is Jen Clarke, who first became involved in the Halifax Indie Music scene in 2005, fronting dancepunk band, hotshotrobot, and also plays keyboards in Halifax's synth-pop party collective, Windom Earle.
In 2009 she decided to start a solo project based on her love of electro and feminist icons, called Jenocide, a tongue in cheek pun for girl-powered party annihilation.
Several angry letters and a myspace hijacking later....
Her first two releases in 2009 were based on themes geared towards women’s empowerment inspired by queercore artists such as, Peaches, and Le Tigre and was featured on blogs such as Bitch Magazine and xtra.ca (Canada's source for gay and lesbian news).
Her debut EP entitled bikerides.barrettes.bruises (2009), is a series of edgy thrash tracks, and was launched as part of the 2009 Atlantic Jazz Fest program.
Her debut album "Machines to Make Us Wet" (2009), peaked in the top 10 of Canada's national earshot! charts with multiple #1's in various cities, and was selected as one of The Best Releases of 2009 (The Coast, Halifax, NS) and has been featured on a variety of blogs including as Gunshy, Baby Sue, Spinner, Singing Lamb and Snob's Music.
She has showcased at the Halifax Pop Explosion, Sunseekers Festival, East Coast Affair Festival, NSMW and has opened for artists such as Rich Aucoin, Think About Life, and Cadence Weapon.
Over 50 Canadian dates later, her new Knee Deep EP will be released in November 2010.