Kristin Gundred, known professionally as Kristin Kontrol, is an American musician, singer and songwriter. She is best known as founder and lead singer of indie rock band

Dum Dum Girls Dum Dum Girls was an American rock band, formed in 2008. It began as the bedroom recording project of singer and songwriter Dee Dee (née Kristin Gundred). She is currently based in Los Angeles. The name is a double homage to the Vaselines' albu ...

(using the pseudonym Dee Dee), with whom she released five studio albums between 2010 and 2014. She began working on new material in 2015, and announced Kristin Kontrol as her new solo project on January 28, 2016. Her debut album, ''X-Communicate'', was released on May 27, 2016 on

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. It was a departure from the sound she had explored with Dum Dum Girls, leaning towards

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. The album was met with favorable reviews. On September 21, 2017, she released the digital single "Concrete Love". Gundred is

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and has collaborated with the

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company Reverie. In 2017, she and bandmate/producer Andrew Miller scored the Tim Hunter-directed film ''

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'', starring Nicolas Cage. In 2018, she scored the

Bret Easton Ellis Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director. Ellis was first regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a w ...

-penned film ''Smiley Face Killers''. Under the Dee Dee moniker, she formed a band called OCDPP with

Cassie Ramone Cassie Grzymkowski (born March 17, 1986), better known by her stage name Cassie Ramone, is an American musician and artist. Ramone rose to prominence as the guitarist and vocalist of indie rock band Vivian Girls, who broke up in 2014, and later ...

from

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and OJ from XRay Eyeballs. Their first performance was in 2015, and they released an EP called 7" Long Player in 2020.

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

External Links

kristingundred.com

Twitter @kristinkontrol
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