Education
University of California, Los Los Angeles
University of California, Los Los Angeles
She is best known for her membership in the punk rock group Black Flag. While sitting in with Los Angeles Roessler was majoring in applied engineering at University of California, Los Angeles, and Black Flag"s subsequent tours were worked around her school schedule, which was a condition for her to join the band. Her bass playing was featured on five of Black Flag"s studio albums.
She remained in the band until completing touring behind their album In My Head in the autumn of 1985, then graduated from University of California, Los Angeles in 1986.
She wrote or co-wrote songs for what would be the Minutemen"s final album, 3-Way Tie, and to Watt"s post-Minutemen band Firehose. She later contributed artwork to Watt"s first solo album, Ball-Hog or Tugboat?.
Roessler now works as a dialogue editor on theatrical films in Los Los Angeles She has credits (sometimes under her full name, sometimes simply as kira) on such films as 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 and American Hardcore.
She appeared on the Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three tribute album in 2003 along with other musical artists, including other Black Flag veterans.
Punk group DC3, members of Black Flag heard her playing, which led to her being asked to join Black Flag to replace founding member Chuck Dukowski.