Music Roessler began studying piano when she was 6 Members of Black Flag heard her playing while she was sitting in with L.A. punk group
DC3. This led to her being asked to join Black Flag in 1983 to replace founding member
Chuck Dukowski. Vocalist
Henry Rollins later reported that
Greg Ginn, Black Flag's leader, guitarist and primary songwriter, had grown frustrated with Dukowski's failure to progress as a musician beyond the band's hardcore punk roots and was drawn to Roessler's more nimble and sophisticated playing. Roessler was majoring in applied engineering at
UCLA, and Black Flag's subsequent tours were scheduled around her classes—a condition of her joining the band. Her bass playing was featured on five of Black Flag's studio albums and two officially released live albums. During her early live performances with the band she was sometimes mistaken as male due to her androgynous appearance, and she subsequently dressed in more feminine garb. Dos' most recent album was released in 2011. She wrote or co-wrote songs for what would be the
Minutemen's final album,
3-Way Tie, and contributed lyrics to Watt's post-Minutemen band
Firehose. She later contributed artwork to Watt's first solo album,
Ball-Hog or Tugboat?. She appeared as a backing vocalist on the tribute album
Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three in 2003, along with other musical artists, including other Black Flag veterans. In December 2018, Roessler joined with
Devra Hoff to form the twin-bass band AwkWard and released their first album
In Progress. On August 13, 2021, on the Protonic Reversal podcast, Kira revealed that an album of solo material would be released on October 19 on Kitten Robot records.
Film work Roessler works as a
dialogue editor on theatrical films in Los Angeles, sometimes credited under her full name, sometimes simply as
kira. She has worked on productions including
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002),
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), and
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), and has also appeared onscreen in the documentaries
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen,
American Hardcore and
What Drives Us . She won
Emmy Awards for her work on the
John Adams episode "Don't Tread on Me" and on the series
Game of Thrones. ==Discography==