Kina Grannis

let's hang outttt (and a song for you!)

wellllllll wow. i just re-read all the comments on the last post and i am, yet again, floored by how incredible you all are. i truly can't believe i am lucky enough to be in a position where i get to have the support/company/cheerleading of so many amazing humans. it's just not normal to get to be in the (virtual) presence of so much kindness and goodness, so thank you thank you thank you. 

anyway. we are long overdue for another online hangout! come join me next tues, nov 14th for...

duets album and some news!

hello beloved patrons!

i wanted to loop you in on some news.

first, a small but fun thing: tomorrow, (after way too long,) jesse and i are putting out a compilation album of our duets! it’s called I Found You. there will be vinyl (eventually), and actually, on that note—i’m finally in the process of getting It’s Hard To Be Human vinyls going too! (but it’s a very slow process so don’t get too excited haha)

second, if you were to scroll down to the bottom of this ...

LA and SF shows!

it's go time!!! LA is tomorrow and SF is in two weeks and i'm starting to get heart palpitations. i am feeling (nearly) ready, excited, nervous, like i'm gonna throw up, all the things. please holler in the comments if you'll be at one of the shows so i can feel your presence when i'm on stage/scan the crowd for you! if you haven't gotten your tickets yet, grab them here: http://www.kinagrannis.com/

a few of you have in...

show dates on sale and hangout reminder!

hello hello! tomorrow is a big day!

earlier this week i announced los angeles and san francisco show dates (!!!) and both shows go on sale tomorrow at 10am! get your tickets here!

i’ve been going through old show and tour photos all morning and it’s getting me so nostalgic! it doesn’t change that i’m still pretty terrified of shows, but it also reminded me how being with you all IRL can be next level incredible once i get out of...

new music, new band!

oh me oh my, a band is born! jesse (imaginary future) and i have joined forces with our parallel universe selves mree and henri bardot...

show dates, pottery, and a june hangout

my friends!

is this just how it goes? you get older and life gets exponentially faster and weirder and keeps sucking you into crazy time wormholes that spit you out months later? gosh i'm so sorry if it's just me.

other than the wormholes, i have been, for the most part, good? here's what's been going on:

aya (aka the daughter)

not much to say here other than i continue to explode with love for her and overwhelming feelings of gratitude that i get to e...

see you soon!

online hangout today! click through for your local time :) see you there!

xo

kina

songs, updates, a hangout, apologies!!

hello dear patrons,

it's been a whirlwind past couple of months. since launching the campaign to try to find a blood stem cell donor match for my mom in january, we've pretty much been in a non-stop swirl of brainstorming and planning and emotional rollercoastering. one of the results of this has been totally falling off in many facets of my life, one of them being my duties to you all here on patreon. my sincerest apologies!

before i forget--let's get a coffee da...

help save my mom's life

hi friends,

i'm sure many of you have seen my recent post online, if not, please read on below. for those who have already registered, shared, sent love--my family and i are bursting with gratitude and hope because of you. thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

my mom is fighting to beat bone marrow cancer and we need your help to save her life.

my mom h...

hangout today - time change!

hello and welcome to the most last minute time change in history! (does it even still count as last minute if the time change happened AFTER it was supposed to start!? there's gotta be a more punitive word for me here...)

today's hangout will now be happening two hours later than originally planned. click through on the link for your local time :)

see you very soon. thank you and i'm sorry!

xo

kina

new song and a coffee date!

hello there!

i come bearing a brand new/very old song for you! here is "everything"--a song jesse and i wrote some 12 years ago and could never find the right moment to bring fully into form until aya was born and we realized it was about her. we recorded it last summer up in the mountains of orcas island, perhaps one of the most beautiful places i have ever been, with our dear friends henri and marie (aka mree!). it was beyond magical in just about every way.

"everything" is a ti...

new song: megastuck

hi again!

“megastuck” is here! i owe you the mp3 download when i’m back home from our travels and have a computer again! in the meantime, here’s a link to here it wherever you listen to music: https://ffm.to/megastuck

i shared a bit about the song and my headspace lately on the internet today, but in case you’re social media-free (my hero!), here it is below :)

diving back into some family time but he...

hello from autumn

i am currently drinking up the crisp air and colorful leaves of fall and it is glorious 😭♥️ this fall jesse, aya and i are bopping around the country for a bit to spend time with some dear friends and family who live in far away places. i still don’t quite know what to do with the gaping hole in my heart i become aware of every time i experience a real autumn (something that basically doesn’t exist where we live in los angeles). instead of wallowing in the ache of all the autumns h...

a cover! a video! a collab!

hello sweet kg records family!

i come bearing new music! i had the huge joy and honor of getting to collaborate with one of my favorite musicans and best friends, kate mcgill, on kevin garrett's "coloring". kate is one of my favorite people ever in every way. the last time kate and i put out a song together was almost exactly TEN years ago!?! kind of astonishing. it will forever be one of my favorites. (chec...

a hello, a hangout, a bon iver cover

hi friends,

i keep writing useless sentences and deleting them so i'm just going to plow forward with mediocrity! some days you just can't find words and today is one of those days.

it is september. since we last spoke, jesse and i went on a truly spectacular trip to record music with two of our best friends, we survived aya's first 4 plane flights nearly unscathed save for a brief panic attack on my part, i had a birthday and my sister flew in to surprise me, i got to hold not on...

a cover and then some

hi friends!

i am alive and i made a cover! this is "elliot's song" by dominic fike and zendaya from euphoria. confession: i didn't watch euphoria! i want to so badly but i have this creeping feeling that i will 1. really love and and not be able to stop watching it, and 2. become dark and depressed and scared about what happens to kids in their teenage years if i do. so for now, i'm avoiding it. i'm trying to keep my headspace as sunny and love-filled as possible for the time being. all...

hello and hangout next week!

hi hi hi.

how are you? i am well! i'm currently looking out my window at a very cool yellow-to-blue post-sunset LA sky.  jesse is cooking salmon, aya is fast asleep one room over, and i just heard a somewhat suspicious noise in the backyard. (probably a mouse but possibly the bobcat that walked through last week?!) my brain is a bit overwhelmed as i've been slowly returning more and more to music and work and non-baby things, but i'm holding it (mildly) together, thanks in part to ...

hello/hang with me!

really trying with all my might to not write the same exact message i have written to you over and over again since aya was born (SEVEN MONTHS AGO!?!?) about the swirling and the time warp and the waking up and two more months have somehow gone by--but alas, there i go. i can't help it. this new life is so thick with time warping i just really can't believe it.

anyway. i have awoken again and here i am crying out to you before i am sucked back into the blissful and wild time warp of bab...

songs and a hangout and hello <3

every time i find myself sitting down to write you all i feel like i'm coming to after a wild alt reality dream. how has it been over a month since i wrote you last?! how have two covers been released in that time and somehow i couldn't find the time or brain capacity to tell anyone about them?! 

new parenthood has continued to be the best and wildest experience ever. i can't believe how much joy and wonder and meaning i am steeping in these days. aya is now 5 months old (again--ho...

coffee date hangout anyone??

hello from the crazy time warp of new parenthood! i feel like it was both yesterday and about ten centuries ago that i wrote you all last. life continues to amaze and befuddle me and i've been fully swept up in the mystery of it all. 

THAT SAID. it's time! it has been 5 months since our last kg records hang and i think i've finally re-entered my brain enough to hop back into our monthly tradition :) 

here's the info:

what: coffee d...

i just called to say i love you :)

hello kg records fam!

first of all, thank you again again again for your patience while jesse, aya, and i find our rhythm!  we feel as though we are slowly solidifying back into whole humans after completely dissolving into this new little being these last months. 

this photo was taken from my first day back in the studio. after basically living in this room for the last many months prior to aya's birth as i finished up the album, it felt so strange and surreal to be bac...

new song! here's "gold" :)

hiiiii.

i don't know if it's been a week or a year since i last checked in. the baby vortex is real! 

life seems to go like this lately:

*wakes up* 

"oh today i should really ____!" (insert: take shower/text back my mom/water plants...)

*three days later finally does thing*

"I AM AMAZING!!!"

it's been quite a wonderful and nutty ride :) 

i am currently out in the middle of nowhere with my family, many of which are meeting our daug...

she’s here ♥️😭

hi kg records fam. it is with the greatest joy ever ever ever that i get to introduce you to our daughter, aya. 😭😭😭😭😭

she was born last week and everyday since our world has gotten more and more beautiful. still trying to wrap my head around it all.

more from me once my feet have found their way back to planet earth, but in the meantime, wanted to let you know we are all safe and healthy and well. the three of us have been blissfully tumbling around in this wild n...

new music video! and a hello! and... the future??

hihihi.

still no baby yet!! but it feels super super nuts to know she could make her appearance ANY DAY. life feels VERY WEIRD. very surreal. overwhelming. exciting. strange. we have no idea what is to come but we know that it is monumental. holy smokes.

for the last music video of the album, it felt right to share a bit more about our journey getting here. i wrote a little blurb on our ivf journey and how it pertains to my song "light" in particular. it is below!!

so. i was...

surprise!!!

oh my sweet kg records family, the new album is finally complete and out in the world!! 😱😭♥️🎉 thank you all so much for keeping me afloat throughout the making of this album--what a wild few years it has been. thank you for your love and support and encouragement and generosity and patience. this album would not be here without the mighty humans of kg records behind me and for that i am endlessly grateful.

new song and video: "another way"

friends friends friends, hello!! things are feeling pretty nutso over here, but in a good way. feels like a frantic/exciting/overwhelming final push to an unknown and rapidly approaching finish line... that is also a starting line?? the closer we get to a baby being here the less any of this makes sense. it's all too big and too mysterious and too mind-blowing to comprehend.

i've been finishing up final preparations for the album release--i think we're actually gonna pull this off!! it ...

"moonsong" video and coffee date!

hi friends!

the "moonsong" lyric video is here! 

ALSO! our coffee date hangout starts in just a few minutes--if you happen to see this in time, hop on over :)  if you miss it live, you can always watch the recording after the fact!

see you soon: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/september-coffee-date-2

xoxoxo

kina

Online Hangout + Moonsong MP3 Download

Hello sweet humans of KG Records <3 

This summer has been quite a swirl for the Grannis family in both beautiful and challenging ways. I apologize for my lack of presence around here while we navigate everything that's been going on. 

Our next Coffee Date Hangout will be next Wednesday, September 8th at 11:30am PDT and I so hope you can make it! Very much looking forward to connecting with you all again :) Tune in 2021-09-01 22:46:44 +0000 UTC View Post

new song and a hello :)

hello kg records family!

in the hubbub of everything, i forgot to tell you that the newest song off the album, “moonsong”, came out yesterday!

listen to “moonsong” here: https://ffm.to/kgmoonsong

i’ll be sending out the mp3 download for you in the next couple days. there’s a lot to share about this little song someday, but for now i’ll let it do its own talking :)

today i a...

new video: "quiet" lyric video

hello!

here is a new video for "quiet" in which i allow myself to steep in my introversion for four minutes! if it feels uncomfortable to watch, imagine that feeling times 10, playing in the background of nearly all your social interactions for most of your life, while you are desperately trying to come off as a normal human being. (i know this is not a foreign experience for many of you here!!)

it was interesting to see how i did end up settling into it, much like i’ve settled ...