Hello friends!
I'm sorry I've been quiet this month! Between recovering from my eye surgery and a bit of traveling I've had to do, I've been a bit all over the place. I was hoping I'd have it together in time to get our hangout in this week, but things are a bit tight so I'll be pushing our February Hangout to next week... in March. (Don't worry, we'll still have a March hangout later in the month!)
Hedgehogs and up will be able to tune in to the Hangout here:
2019-02-27 20:27:57 +0000 UTC
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Hello hello hellooo!
Happy Valentine's Day, my sweet sweet KG Records Family! I can't thank you enough for all the Valentine's Day messages you sent in. As per usual, I just couldn't bear to leave any out, so I included all the ones I couldn't fit into a little scrolly bit at the end of the video!! Reading your messages, I laughed, I cried, and most of all felt so grateful to get to be a part of all of these beautiful stories that are happening all over the world. Thank you.
Eye u...
2019-02-14 19:47:51 +0000 UTC
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Hello friends!
The new acoustic version of Valentine is now out, hooray!! I can't believe it's been 10 years since this song came into existence. It was really nice to go back and show it some love :) Hope you enjoy this new version!
Re: the video--it seemed a bit anticlimactic for a bunch of people to get surprise Valentine shoutouts a week before Valentine's Day, so I'm holding off on the video portion until then!
Re: eye surgery--it went smoothly! Pain isn't too bad...
2019-02-08 16:08:24 +0000 UTC
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Hey KG Records Fam!
This year February marks the TEN year anniversary of my song "Valentine" and I wanted to do a little something special to celebrate! I've recorded a new acoustic version of the song that'll be coming out at the end of this week and--if all goes to plan--I'd like to make a little video for it, too! In my original "Valentine" video I shared a bunch of special Valentine's Day messages that people had sent in, so I think it'd be fun to do something like that again ...
2019-02-03 19:35:42 +0000 UTC
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First of all. OH MY GOODNESS. Last week I shared the demo of one of my new songs "Too Much" with you all and I cannot express how incredibly grateful I am the response. THANK YOU. Thank you for being so open, supportive, caring, vulnerable, and gentle with my song (and with me!). Thank you for creating a safe place for me to share, and thank you for feeling safe enough to share with me. I am so incredibly lucky to have you all. I hope to go back and respond to more of your comments today, but...
2019-01-28 21:39:38 +0000 UTC
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oh boy am i filled with nerves right now! AH.
ok. so this is the second time i'll be sharing a demo of an unreleased song with you all. the first time was back in november when i shared "enough" (if you missed it, you can listen here). is it weird that that song was called "enough" and this one is called "too much"? yes. yes it is. but what can you do, huh?
it feel...
2019-01-24 23:26:45 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! I hope your 2019 is off to an amazing start!
I had so much fun doing this song! If you don't already know Pomplamoose, I am so happy you do now! They consist of Nataly Dawn (who you may know from her general awesomeness, or our other collabs like this or 2019-01-17 18:13:38 +0000 UTC
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Hello all <3
Here's a cover of "When The Party's Over" by Billie Eilish! This song has been stuck in my head since the moment I heard it, so it only seemed appropriate to pay my respects and do a little cover! If you haven't heard the original version yet, do go check it out :)
ALSO! Incredibly sorry for the late notice, but December's Coffee Date Hangout is tomorrow! Join in here!
2018-12-28 22:03:02 +0000 UTC
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Dearest KG Records Family,
What a year 2018 has been! Looking back over the last year, I am utterly overwhelmed by all the things that were made possible because of you. I made a list of all these things so I could really feel it all--feel the ups and downs and feel those big moments and most importantly feel how this is not at all a list of things I accomplished, but a list of things WE accomplished, and then feel how incredible and amazing that is!
Without further ado, here is a...
2018-12-23 18:29:12 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
Apparently it's been 11 months since Jesse (Imaginary Future) and I have done a video together!? It felt like it was high time to bring back the duetting, and what better a song to do it on than this classic :)
Quick reminder about the holiday sales going on:
1. Everything on the KG webstore is 50% off through the end of the month with discount code "merryhappy". This applies to shirts, hats, ...
2018-12-14 06:04:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
I just realized it's been 6 months since I posted a cover!? Where has the time gone!?
I stumbled upon this old gem by the Counting Crows recently and immediately felt the need to sing it. After doing some digging online, I learned the song was written about his struggle with a thing called depersonalization--a term I very recently learned existed, though I had experienced it throughout my life. I won't go into it all here since I talk about it at the end of the video, but n...
2018-11-30 19:08:26 +0000 UTC
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Hello humans of KG Records!
Just wanted to give everyone a quick reminder that we have a Coffee Date hangout tomorrow! This is usually reserved for hedgehogs and up, but I wanted to open it up to everyone this month because I love you :D
Tune in here! (Local time is listed on the event page, and feel free to start posting questions for the Q&A!)
Also, I have a question for you all...
2018-11-28 01:46:04 +0000 UTC
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Well, yikes! This feels insane and incredibly vulnerable and strange, but also exciting and good and right. I have never released an original demo prior to releasing an official version of a song (and even then have almost never released my original demos!), but you all are family, and I am so excited to be writing again (thanks to all of you), and I want to let you in :)
Because this is the first time I'm doing this and I'm a little freaked out, I'm going to take a moment to teach you all abo...
2018-11-21 22:44:38 +0000 UTC
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Today is #ThankYou...
2018-11-19 17:41:18 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
I'm finally settling back into life back home after tour (do I say this every time I post? šThis time I really think it's true) and I'm starting to think about what this next chapter could look like! Since getting home, two little songs found their way to me out of nowhere. I wasn't expecting to fall into writing again so soon, but it's felt so good and so exciting to touch this part of music again after a year and a half of focusing on the recording/producing/mixing/video-mak...
2018-11-16 22:11:44 +0000 UTC
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Heyoooo. Here is the lyric video to accompany the new reimagined version of "For Now" (which I have already talked your ear off about so much so I'll just keep it simple today)! Also--I do a LOT of chatting at the end of the video because I feel like it's been forever... so feel free to either 1. watch and hang out with me, or 2. skip it because I'm probably rambling.
I haven't made a ton of lyric videos in my day, but I kind of love the idea of them. I think so often people hear songs without...
2018-11-08 17:49:48 +0000 UTC
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social media is a tricky thing. it can help us learn from each other, feel less alone, get inspired, be entertained, and a handful of other wonderful things, but more often than not (and perhaps iām just speaking for my own unenlightened self) it leaves us feeling worse. i just lost 20 minutes clicking aimlessly, only to find myself on someoneās profileāwhom iād never even heard ofābrowsing through her ālifeā, and comparing x, y, and z about my own life/body/success/you name it aga...
2018-11-02 00:50:37 +0000 UTC
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Hi! This song comes out on Friday for the rest of the world (along with the lyric video!) but I'm too excited and I wanted to share it with my KG Records Family first!! So here you go :)
A bit of backstory: A couple years ago, Jesse (AKA Imaginary Future/my husband) began collaborating with a guy named Christoph Andersson on a musical project called Jome (...
2018-10-30 22:57:30 +0000 UTC
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Hi friends!
Something new:
I had the honor of getting to sing on a brand new Far East Movement track with Jason Zhang and it's out today! It's called "Bamboo" and you can find it wherever you listen to music! Love this song and had so much fun getting to try something a little different. :)
And some news!
I am collaborating with one of my all-time favorite producers (not to mention all-time favorite people) to bring you all some "reimagined" ...
2018-10-26 20:14:30 +0000 UTC
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Hello!
My Fall Online Concert commences in a couple hours! You can begin posting questions/song requests (and voting up the ones you want to hear) on the show page any time between now and show time. If you can't make it live, the show will be recorded and viewable after the fact via the same link.
Can't wait to hang out with you all :) See you soon!!
Tune in here: 2018-10-21 17:31:20 +0000 UTC
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Hi friends!
Tour is over and I'm home and I miss you and thus I am having an online concert this weekend! There will be singing and stories and all sorts of fun things. As a member of KG Records, your ticket is already secured, so all you have to do is tune in :) If you have any friends who would like to join in, they can join KG Records for the month (... orrrrr just come over to your house and watch)!
What: Online Concert
When: THIS Sunday, Octob...
2018-10-18 01:27:45 +0000 UTC
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Friends, it's here! May I present to you the very last music video of the album for my song "All Along," featuring none other than your own fellow KG Records members (and maybe, you).
I cannot thank everyone who sent in videos enough for putting themselves out there to help me create such a special video. You all reduced me to a puddle of tears. Watching through your videos as the tour came to a close felt like the most perfect and fitting end to this chapter. I had chills and was in tears thr...
2018-09-30 19:41:24 +0000 UTC
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Hello all!
Just a quick reminder that you have 1 day left if you'd like to submit a video of yourself for the "All Along" music video! I'll be closing submissions at the end of the day this Sunday.
Visit the last post for instructions and everything you need to know in order to participate. I've been watching the videos as they've been coming in and I've been so moved!
Lots and lots of lov...
2018-09-22 18:37:52 +0000 UTC
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Hello KG Records family :)
I'm making a music video for "All Along" and I want you to be in it.
"All Along" is a song about realizing that we already have everything we need. That there is no magic person or event that is going to give us what we believe we are lacking--but that instead, somewhere within ourselves we already have the strength, courage, knowledge, etc to be the people we dream to me. Of course, it's easier said than done, but the first step in feeling thi...
2018-09-19 17:04:17 +0000 UTC
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hello from my bunk on our mini tour bus in europe :) itās 2:32am and weāre a few hours in to the longest drive weāll have on the europe tour. we basically hopped off stage in copenhagen straight into the bus, then onto a ferry, and now dominiek, our driver and merch guy, is up in the front of the bus, alone with his metal music and pepsi, starting the long drive to our final destination. heās a trooper.
i spent the past couple hours reading letters iāve received at the shows. itās ...
2018-09-18 00:44:42 +0000 UTC
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Hey KG Records Family!
Iām writing you from a rainy tour bus drive through middle-of-nowhere, Europe. The tour has been great so far. Last night in Berlin we had the best and most surprising sing along ever to āValentineā and it almost made me cry. š It was amazing. Next up is Amsterdam, which might have the highest concentration of KG Records peeps/KG street teamers/OG kinerds over here in Europe, so itāll be a wonderful little reunion of sorts :) Canāt wait.
Anyway, hereā...
2018-09-13 10:26:54 +0000 UTC
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Hello from somewhere insanely beautiful near the border between France and Switzerland! We are actually driving as we speak, and Iām making myself semi-motion sick by writing this post. HA. Iāll should make this quick.
First of all, welcome to our new KG Records members!! So honored to have you aboard. Feel free to tell us a little bit about yourselves in the comments :) I love to know who you are!
Second of all, quick note to anyone joining us on the Europe tour! Sam (our Tour manag...
2018-09-07 15:52:34 +0000 UTC
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Hey KG Records family!
Oh my goodness, where to start. How about I just bullet point this thing?? Cool.
"California" - Not sure if I've mentioned this before, but one goal I had for this new album was to have a music video for every song on the album--something I've not come close to doing in the past. As of today, 9/10 songs on In The Waiting have videos! Most of you probably know the story behind "California" by now (and if you don't, 2018-08-31 19:16:06 +0000 UTC
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Another video from the road! It's been a while since I've done live recorded videos and it's been fun getting back to these while on tour :) Reminds me of the olden days on YouTube before everything had to be so shiny and official.
I have one show left of the North American leg of the tour and I kind of don't understand how we got here. This tour has gone by so quickly. My absolute favorite part of this tour has been seeing and meeting you all. Putting real live humans to names I've seen so of...
2018-08-12 15:43:49 +0000 UTC
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Hello friends! Found a nice stairwell (you know I'm a sucker for those stairwell acoustics) a few days ago and thought I'd sing you a song in it :) It was also a billion degrees, but the vibes were worth it!
My brain is feeling a little wonky today, so I'll keep this post short and let you get to the video before I start rambling about nothing ;)
Before I go, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS TOUR POSSIBLE. Your support means everything and I am beyond grateful I get to go ar...
2018-07-31 23:16:32 +0000 UTC
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