{"id":326908,"date":"2026-03-26T12:39:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clevescene.com\/?p=326908"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:51:47","slug":"stable-lineup-reaps-musical-dividends-for-local-rockers-kiss-me-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clevescene.com\/music\/stable-lineup-reaps-musical-dividends-for-local-rockers-kiss-me-deadly\/","title":{"rendered":"Stable Lineup Reaps Musical Dividends for Local Rockers Kiss Me Deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kiss Me Deadly singer Jen Poland has drawn a timeline to show all the different musicians who&#8217;ve performed with her group over the past 15 or so years. But despite the rotating cast, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kissmedeadly.com\">Kiss Me Deadly<\/a> has steadily played gigs and released new music over the course of that time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a stable lineup now in place, the group has caught a serious second wind. Next month, it\u2019ll release its latest album, <em>Ship of Theseus<\/em>, on vinyl. It&#8217;ll celebrate the release with a show on Saturday, April 25, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brotherslounge.com\">Brothers Lounge<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI had started writing the songs through COVID, and then, John Scully became our full-time drummer, and as soon as that happened, our songs started to lock in,\u201d says Poland recently over coffee at the Metropolitan, one of her favorite local coffee shops. \u201cBut then, I broke my hand, and I had to get an extra guitar player, and that\u2019s how we ended up with Chris Frohring.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She took that lineup down to Ohio University, where she teaches in the music production program, and recorded <em>Ship of Theseus<\/em> at the state-of-the-art studios located on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI engineered the album, and I\u2019ve been mixing it,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s just now finally coming out on vinyl via [Cleveland\u2019s] Gotta Groove. I had [Cleveland\u2019s] Chris Keffer, who mastered our first album, master it for vinyl and digital. It&#8217;s a total expression&nbsp;of all my artistry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Poland also wrote and directed the music video for the single &#8220;Biosphere,&#8221; a breezy, ska-inspired number that came out of a songwriting session hosted by local singer-songwriter Brent Kirby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMaking the music video was very challenging,\u201d she says. \u201cMy saxophone player, Matt King, and I put all the work into it and Emerson Santuomo was my co-director. We ran multiple cameras through the whole set. It was in this abandoned observatory on the East side of Cleveland. It\u2019s cool because it has all this graffiti all over the walls. I wanted the art of local artists in the video. We spray-painted ourselves to blend in, and I wanted this visual, colorful look at human art.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a child, Poland listened to the radio like any other kid growing up in Northeast Ohio. But music runs in her family, and she quickly began writing her own tunes while still in elementary school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy mom and uncles were folk singer-songwriters,\u201d she says. \u201cI had a guitar when I was a kid and because of them, I just thought I could write my own songs. When I was an adolescent, I loved hip-hop and rap. My first songs were bad because I was playing my guitar and rapping over it. It didn\u2019t mix well. I had to find my sound. I finally found more of an indie rock vibe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She went on to front a band when she was at Kent in college and then taught herself to play electronic mandolin; she joined another band before setting out on her own with the Poland Invasion in 2008, a group that would morph into Kiss Me Deadly, which played its first show in 2009 at Around the Corner in Lakewood. That group featured local bassist-singer Evan Lieberman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy group has gone through all kinds of iterations,\u201d she says, adding that &#8220;ship of Theseus,&#8221; a reference to the thought experiment about whether an object is the same after having all of its original components replaced, seemed like the perfect title for an album. &#8220;That\u2019s why I called the album <em>Ship of Theseus<\/em> because it\u2019s always been me and it\u2019s always been my songs even though the other musicians have changed. Even though I\u2019ve had different players and musicians, it\u2019s still the original. I\u2019ve also changed and gotten better and grown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While mixing <em>Ship of Theseus<\/em>, the group connected with Jim Ellis, who&#8217;s supported the Cleveland music scene for years as a journalist. He was interested in putting out new Kiss Me Deadly tunes on his CLE Records and will release a new Kiss Deadly album later this year (a CLE Records showcase takes place on June 27 at Brothers Lounge).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the upcoming release party at Brothers Lounge, the group will play <em>Ship of Theseus<\/em> in its entirety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s just us that night,\u201d says Poland. \u201cAfter we play the entire record, we\u2019ll play some other stuff, including songs from the next record just to tease people with what is coming out next.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clevescene.com\/cleveland\/ClevesceneNewsletterSignup\/Page\"><strong><em>Subscribe to Cleveland Scene newsletters.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Follow us:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKQgKIiNDQklTRkFnTWFoQUtEbU5zWlhabGMyTmxibVV1WTI5dEtBQVAB?hl=en-US&amp;gl=US&amp;ceid=US%3Aen\"><strong><em>Google News<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599763?s=01\"><strong><em>NewsBreak<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ClevelandScene\/\"><strong><em>Reddit<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/clevelandscene\/\"><strong><em>Instagram<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ClevelandScene\"><strong><em>Facebook&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>|&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClevelandScene\"><strong><em>Twitter<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiss Me Deadly singer Jen Poland has drawn a timeline to show all the different musicians who&#8217;ve performed with her group over the past 15 or so years. 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