Kiss the tiger
Infinite Love
OUT SEPTEMBER 12
CONTACT:
ROSIE BOYD // PUBLICIST
AVA KELLY // PUBLICIST
At a time when the world seems intent on pushing us further inward and further apart, Kiss the Tiger are here to rattle our bones and bust us out of our cocoons with some good old fashioned rock and roll. Fronted by the magnetic and disarming Meghan Kreidler, who draws on her background in theater to break the fourth wall between audience and band with her righteous fist pumps and high kicks, this is a band that doesn’t just play. They combust.
The genesis of Kiss the Tiger’s upcoming new album Infinite Love feels somewhat nebulous. Like much of their previous work, the band has evolved their creative output with no single defining starting point, but through the trials of artistic life on the road, at home, and everything in between. The nucleus of their enterprise lies in the dual songwriting efforts of now husband-and-wife Michael Anderson and Meghan Kreidler. In fact, the birth of the band begins almost simultaneously with the meeting of the two. Over the course of their 10-year partnership Anderson and Kreidler have fused their unique sensibilities and perspectives to create a world that neither of them could have dreamed without the other. Infinite Love was recorded throughout 2024 with their wedding wedged directly between sessions. And when it came down to naming the album – also the title of Track 8 on this 10-song collection – Infinite Love felt like the perfect synthesis of everything they’ve built so far, as well as the endless possibilities that exist when creating something with the one you love.
Over the past few years, Kiss the Tiger have set the Twin Cities ablaze, and there’s nary a club, block party, park amphitheater or backyard that they haven’t transformed with their commanding live shows. Kreidler is backed on stage by her longtime partner and creative foil, Michael Anderson, on rhythm guitar, plus lead guitarist Alex Sandberg, bassist Paul DeLong, drummer Alyse Emanuel, and keyboard player Isabella Dawis.
Their live sets are often accompanied by sing-alongs to regional hits like the hard-knocking “Motel Room,” their ode to pandemic loneliness, “I Miss You,” or their pleading anthem “Hold On to Love,” all of which have become instantly recognizable to locals thanks to regular airplay on the tastemaking public radio station 89.3 The Current. (“Hold On to Love,” specifically, spent a whopping nine weeks at No. 1 on The Current’s Chart Show and was inducted into the Chart Show Hall of Fame.)
In addition to headlining their own barn-burning shows, Kiss the Tiger have also been tapped to open for prominent acts like Lake Street Dive, The Suburbs, Ike Reilly, Jackie Venson, Black Joe Lewis, and Daughtry. They have also brought their act on the road to open for Philly’s Low Cut Connie, Austin’s Emily Wolfe, and fellow Minneapolis indie favorites Bad Bad Hats. Kiss the Tiger’s transcendent, heart-forward rock and roll is right on time.