Kieran Kriss

Kieran Kriss began playing music roughly 20 years ago, since then the goal has been to make good songs. He believes you should only listen to what resonates with you, which is exactly what he does. From there he lets what he listens to influence his music. The biggest influence through the years has been his bandmates from various projects; notably Matt Bevilacqua, Jeff Citron(Moonglow), Simon Tangney, and Greg Wyler. He of course pulls installations from more famous artists from Weezer to Shania Twain. Kriss' journey to "make good songs" began when he joined the jazz band at school as an attempt to seem cool, even though at the time he possessed a complete lack of jazz knowledge. During his first jazz band rehearsal his teacher, Mr. Shusterman, kicked a kid off drums to show the class how the part should be played. This drum part the teacher played was Kriss' first experience in being moved by music; he reminisces on being able to feel the music, at the time he had a saxophone he did not know how to play at all. 

Since that first moment of FEELING the music, Kriss found that his music teachers liked him. The combination of being well-liked, wanting to keep the attention of these music teachers, and wanting to be good at something helped get Kriss where he is now. He made becoming a good musician a challenge for himself, which is where his want to make a good song came about. He spent a lot of his youth writing terrible songs, but he eventually became good at it and found how much he enjoyed writing, creating, and pushing himself. 

Kriss is currently working on two different breakup songs, both shine a more positive light on breakups; essentially they are love songs disguised as anti-love songs. He is working with his usual producer Greg Wyler and a new producer Rich Tuorto who is helping bring a "bigger poppier" sound to the songs. In all his music he strives for, "The gloss and sheen of bubble gum pop with the intimacy, honesty, and weirdness of reading someone's diary." 

Even after trying to quit music Kriss always finds his way back to it for a couple of reasons; "How broad of a medium it is. And how ubiquitous it is... It's part of the great human project of entertaining ourselves." Kriss can find a song for every mood and strives to do this with his music.