Name Kira Roessler
Best known for Being one of the bass players in Black Flag. Being a girl in a “hardcore” band.
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Current City Studio City, CA.
Really want to be in A swimming pool? The sunshine? I love it here in Southern California. I also love the Galápagos Islands. Someday I would like to play live outside the U.S. again.
Excited about My record Enigma coming out on Org Music in July. Playing live with my good friend Dave Bach and my brother Paul again.
My current music collection has a lot of Variation. Everything from audiobooks to classical records to more recent releases. I like to have a solid variety to choose from. My mood might dictate a mellow classical or a nostalgic rock n’ roll journey.
And a little bit of Punk rock. Got to have a little, but it certainly gets dwarfed by all the variety mentioned above.
Preferred format While I feel that vinyl should be the answer, my collection has to be able to come with me—on a walk, or a drive, or anywhere I might find myself—therefore digital is my go to format.
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without:
1
Music for Torching, Billie Holiday
When I was 13 my friend had a cassette of this record and it changed my life. For me no one explores the depths of her emotions with her voice the way Billie does. Realizing that most of the songs she sang were written by others, I was shocked at the emotion being shoved through my ears to my heart. I still cry at times when I hear her voice. If you told me to pick just one record, this would be it.
2
Meat Puppets II, Meat Puppets
It is a rare thing that music makes me feel joy, but from the first time I heard it, and while I had the honor of hearing them every day for a month on my first tour with Black Flag, this record and these songs did and still do. Music can represent a moment in time, an emotion rarely felt, and create a lasting association. For me joy is the association for this record and always was.
3
The Evens, The Evens
Years ago I asked my social media feed about any new music I should hear. Someone asked if I had heard the Evens. Crazily, even though I had been in a two-member band for a long time (Dos), I had not heard this incredible duo. Ian MacKaye has made a lot of good music and I needed him represented in this collection. But it is with Amy Farina that he finds the musical irony that hits close to my heart. I feel part of a conversation when I listen.
4
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, Bright Eyes
One of my favorite people to go to for musical updates is my nephew Adam. When he points me to music I have not heard, I make it a point to listen. And this record amazed me. There was this new kind of a melodic way of expressing emotion. Unnatural melodies. Almost childishly innocent but with this dark reality encompassing it. It’s simple: I feel big feelings when listening and that is my measure.
5
Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair, La Dispute
And then he did it again—Adam—with this record. To me this is the new punk rock. Jordan has this way of practically screaming the whole time! There’s this hard edge to it all, an urgency, insisting that I fall into the hole he is describing and rock back and forth to the solid rhythmic underpinnings. And yet, they still leave some holes to accent the vocals. The rhythm section fully supports the songs weaving in and out of full-on driving to heavy slow and sparse—hear this on “Damaged Goods.”
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