Former music publicist decides to make music instead. Good move!

Written by Bob Guccione Jr. | May 25, 2023 - 9:00 am

Kirsten Izer, who was “always making music, since I was 11 years old,” started her career at 18 as a publicist for indie artists. After a while she decided to become a journalist, and interviewed “hundreds of artists.” Somewhere along the line she decided to accept her long-destined fate and become one of those artists she and everyone else around her were, in one way or another, writing about.

She currently lives in LA and, smartly, because music is a tough, cold business, still has a day job, marketing audio brands. She grew up on the east coast, in New York and New Jersey.

Britnee Meiser on September 23, 2019

Brooklyn-based Kirsten Izer’s debut single of 2019, “One Year,” is a raw and evocative exploration of toxic love and lingering loss. The minimal arrangement consists only of a hazy electric guitar and Izer’s cool, smoky vocals, but its intimacy is what makes it powerful.

by Mitch Mosk

September 19, 2019

“We don’t actually own anything, but we want to,” sings a plaintive Kirsten Izer in her intimate new single. The unveiled confession of an aching heart, “One Year” is a stripped-down, late night intermingling of introspection, sadness, and love’s loss that says all it needs to say without glitz and glamour: If poetry can dazzle, then this song has a brilliant hue.