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Join the live hangout next week! (Also, hi!)
Hello friends :)Come hang out with me next Tuesday at our monthly Coffee Date Hangout! It's been too long! I really love these chats with you all--in addition to covering general life updates, we seem to have slowly shifted the content of these to feel like a group therapy session of sorts--expl...
New Behind The Songs! "Beth"
Hey KG Records Family!Episode 8 is here! To be honest, making this one really threw me for a loop. I'm so used to revealing all of my own stuff on the internet, but knowing what to share and what not to share when including another person in the story is really tough! I found myself tip toeing a...
New Video: You Are (Duet w/ Imaginary Future)
Hello wonderful KG Records family! <3I am so excited to introduce you to the new song with Jesse! It's been quite a while since our last proper duet and we had the best time together in the studio making this one come to life :) Lyrics are at the bottom of the post if you want to get more acquai...
Behind The Songs: Lonesome (Ep 7)
Episode 7 is here!I'll keep the text short as the video is quite long enough :)If you want a little idea of what we talk about in this one...0:06 What is "it" in the lyrics? "It lingers in my day / It's lurking in the backyard But you start to feel it too / Just underneath the su...
New Video: Dream A Little Dream Of Me
happy fridayyyyy <3hope this little video finds you well! jesse and i are about to head off to the mountains for the weekend to celebrate our anniversary, but first a quick hello!some exciting news: last week i wrote three new songs! i had thought the album was complete, but suddenly it's... com...
New Behind The Songs + Hangout Invitation!
Hey KG Records family :)Episode 6 of Behind The Songs is here! I dive into "For Now" and talk about gratitude and acceptance and how cool it is to get to exist here in this same moment of time as you.Before I forget--also wanted to let you all know that this month's Coffee Date Hangout w...
Behind The Songs Ep 5: California
Hello KG Records family :)Episode 5 of Behind The Songs is out today! I realized after shooting it that I did a pretty terrible job of recapping my experience in Jakarta... so if you don't know about that saga, read through my blog post about it here--it will definitely help set the tone for thi...
New Video: Make Me
Here she is :)xoxoxoxoKinap.s. YOU ARE SO GREAT.
Song Download! "Make Me"
Hello dear patrons <3Coming to you today with a download of my song "Make Me!" It is a little-known song of mine that I first released over 10 years ago on YouTube (how has it been that long?!?!). While it never got its day in the sun on an album of mine, it has always been a tremendously im...
Online Hangout this Monday **Date Change!**
hey all!1. a reminder that i decided to open up this month's coffee date hangout to the whollllleeeee kg records family because i miss you all and we have lots of newbies i want to welcome in to the fold!2. i've come down with the flu, so instead of our original plan of hanging tomorrow, i&#...
Gratitude, an Invitation, and Ep 4 of Behind The Songs!
Hi!Lately I have been feeling so much gratitude and love for you all that it just feels like it's exploding out of my chest. The support and understanding and sharing in response to Behind The Songs, the time you've allowed me to spend making these in the first place, the space to keep heali...
Behind The Songs Ep. 3: In The Waiting
Oof. Having a hard time hitting "publish" on this one, but here we go. I'm going to let this one do the talking for me.Sending so much love to you all <3xoKina
Behind The Songs Ep 2: History
Episode 2 is here! I still feel so crazy and insecure after posting these, but it's been an amazing thing hearing from people about their own experiences and hearing how people can relate. 😭 It means everything.I gotta keep this short because I'm on a plane and it's about to take off ...
Hello (and June hangout this weekend!)
Hello!My oh my. Thank you all for receiving the first episode of Behind The Songs so lovingly! I was so hesitant to share it, so it came as a huge relief to know so many of you could relate to the struggles I shared (and that it wasn't just a 9 minute long waste of your life!!). Episode 2 is nea...
New Video! Behind The Songs: When Will I Learn
Episode One of Behind The Songs is here and we're kicking things off with "When Will I learn"!I had such a wall around starting to shoot this series, so after many days of failed attempts and fancy lights and camera set ups, I opted for a pajama shoot, in my bedroom, straight into my lap...
New Video: "Kiss Me" Cover
Helloooo! Happy Friday <3Coming at you today with a cover of "Kiss Me!" Randomly started playing this song on guitar recently (it was actually one of the first songs I ever learned on guitar some 17 years ago!) and it just felt so lovely that I wanted to do it officially. Of course, by the t...
Fox Pins + Vinyls Are Here!!!
Exciting news!! KG Records Fox Pins and In The Waiting vinyls are here at last! You can get them both on this super secret KG Records store page!The vinyls are a super limited run--199 of them in total (#200 is mine!), all signed and numbered by yours truly :) They go on sale to the public this Frid...
Help me celebrate In The Waiting's 1 year anniversary
Hi friends!**Quick reminder before I forget--we have a live hangout today at 11am PT and everyone is invited! I am so looking forward to chatting with you all :) For details and to join live, tune in here.**Ok, back to the actual point of this message!With the one year anniversary of my album In The...
Hangout This Week + Starting A New Album!?
Hi :)I'm sorry if I've been a bit quiet lately, but it's for good reason! Last week I finally broke ground on recording the new album! It feels crazy and exciting and so good to be back in the studio. I wasn't planning on diving into a new album so soon, but the songs seemed to have ...
New Video: Never Never (Throwback Session!)
Hi everyone :)Sorry I've been a little quiet lately! Getting back into the swing of things back home seems to have taken up the majority of my focus the past week or so, and as a result I haven't been the best internetter. Sorry about that. But I'm back!For those of you that don't kn...
Video: Billie Eilish - Full Album Medley
Hello dear patrons!I've just returned home from a trip to Japan with my family a few days ago and I'm slowly but surely readjusting to normal life! The trip was beautiful and inspiring and everything we could have hoped for it to be :) I ate everything and teared up at nature and laughed wit...
New Video: Oops! (Britney Spears Cover)
helloooo kg records familyyyyyy.i've been playing this cover live for years and years and years and just recently realized i'd never released a proper recording of it--it's about time!for some reason singing it in the studio versus in a live show setting was a whole new animal and it rea...
Online Hangout on Saturday! (and a thank you.)
First, I just have to take a moment to praise you all!! I wasn't sure how my little improv song was going to go over last week, so I was VERY happy to hear it brought a smile to some of your faces and that the overall feeling was of amusement and not "what is wrong with you". 😂Thank y...
Top secret improv song (and a story)
In case this is the only sentence you read before listening--THIS IS NOT A REAL SONG I MADE IT UP ONE NIGHT WHEN I WAS IN A SILLY MOOD OH GOSH I HOPE YOU READ THIS BEFORE YOU LISTEN.So sommmmetimes, when I'm in a very silly mood, I pick up one of my guitars and start making up a (very silly, ver...
New Video: Dancing With A Stranger
Hiiii everyone.Some of you may have already seen this one as it came out last week on Sam's channel, but for those of you who haven't, here it is! Sam Tsui is one of my favorite people ever and I'm so glad he asked me to work with him on this cover. I can always count on Sam to push me a...
Hi! (And Hangout Next Week)
Hi all <3Popping in to say HAPPY WEEKEND and also HANG OUT WITH ME NEXT WEEK!!! :DIs time moving so quickly for anyone else lately?! This week has felt like such a blur for me. Mixed in to that blur have been some really beautiful moments, some really hard moments, some really productive moments, an...
a podcast for you!
hey all!popping in from pajama land to let you know that my episode of the we dive deeper podcast is out ♡ kate mcgill, whom i adore to no end, started this podcast in order to skip past the small talk and get to the real stuff—and that we did. so grateful to have had the opportunity to chat wit...
New Video: In The Waiting (Reimagined)
I am so happy to be sharing this reimagined version of "In The Waiting" with you all! It was created by my friend Christoph Andersson who is a pure musical genius and one half of the band Jome. (The other half being Jesse AKA Imaginary Future AKA my husband. If you haven't heard their mu...
Chat in our Community Discord!
Alright, it's taken me long enough! Our KG Records Community Discord is officially live, and you are invited! I've been testing it out with a little beta group and so far I am already melting with love and amazement for what happens when this community gets together.If you're confused as...
New Video: The Luckiest (w/ Imaginary Future)
Hello! Because I couldn't quite get my act together, you all get this video one day before the rest of the world, hooray!This song has held a special place in our hearts since Jesse and I met some 16 years ago in high school. It's a song by Ben Folds, and if you don't know the original, ...
