Kevin Bivona (born November 8, 1986) is an American multi-instrumentalist and audio engineer best known for his work with Tim Armstrong's various musical projects, particularly the Transplants and Rancid. He is currently the guitarist for the ska punk band the Interrupters.
Early career In 2005, Bivona became the touring keyboard player for The Transplants on the Vans Warped Tour. Following the Warped Tour, he began to work around Los Angeles as a recording engineer. This led to continued involvement with Transplants, as well as Paul Wall, Travis Barker, Dirt Nasty, The Cool Kids, and Psycho White.
Personal life Bivona is married to fellow Interrupters band member Aimee Allen. The other two members of the Interrupters are his brothers, who are twins.
With The Transplants and studio work On March 2, 2011, Bivona appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno with Travis Barker and Cypress Hill, performing "The Beat Goes On" off Barker's debut solo album. On March 7, 2011, he appeared on Conan with the Transplants performing "Saturday Night" off Travis' solo record.
In 2011, he engineered and mixed the Jimmy Cliff record Rebirth produced by Tim Armstrong. Both Armstrong and Bivona were awarded the Grammy Award for "Best Reggae Album."
In 2012, Bivona and Aimee Allen co-founded the Los Angeles–based ska-punk band The Interrupters along with his brothers, twins Jesse and Justin. Their debut record was released August 5, 2014, on Hellcat Records.
"Tim Timebomb" project From October 2012 to October 2013, Bivona was heavily involved in the Tim Timebomb project, in which Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong released a song a day for a year via his website.
During the summer of 2013, the Transplants toured the US and Canada, opening for Rancid. The Rancid headlining tour was split into three legs, with the Transplants on the first two legs of the tour. For the third and final leg of the Rancid tour, the Tim Timebomb project took the Transplants' direct support spot. While Bivona played bass in Transplants, and organ, piano and guitar in Tim Timebomb, he also played organ/piano for a few Rancid songs for the extent of the tour. His band The Interrupters were opening support for the second and third legs of the tour.
Selected discography Year Artist/band Album Role 2006 +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating Keyboards, programming 2010 Paul Wall The Heart of a Champion Engineer Dirt Nasty Nasty as I Wanna Be Mixing Devils Brigade Devils Brigade Engineer 2011 Sublime with Rome Yours Truly Musician, vocals The Cool Kids When Fish Ride Bicycles Engineer Jimmy Cliff Sacred Fire EP Guitar, piano, engineer, mixing Travis Barker Give The Drummer Some Guitar, bass, keyboards, engineer, composer 2012 Jimmy Cliff Rebirth (Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album) Guitar, piano, engineer, mixing Yelawolf Psycho White Keyboards 2013 Transplants In a Warzone Bass, engineer, guitar, keyboards 2014 Various Artists 22 Jump Street soundtrack Composer, "Live Forever" The Interrupters The Interrupters Guitar, vocals, songwriter, engineer Rancid ...Honor Is All We Know Engineer, mixer 2016 The Interrupters Say It Out Loud Guitar, vocals, songwriter, engineer 2017 Anti-Flag American Fall Hammond B3 Rancid Trouble Maker Engineer, Melodica, Piano, Hammond B3 2018 The Interrupters Fight the Good Fight Guitar, vocals, songwriter, engineer Madball For The Cause Engineer RATBOY Internationally Unknown Engineer, Mixer, Master 2019 Grade 2 Graveyard Island Engineer, Mixer 2020 Machine Gun Kelly Tickets to My Downfall Bass, Guitar, Hammond B3, Piano, Synthesizer 2021 Lars Frederiksen To Victory Engineer, Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Percussion, Hammond B3 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones When God Was Great Guitar, Piano, Organ, Background Vocals Trippie Redd & Travis Barker Neon Shark vs Pegasus Keyboards The Interrupters Live In Tokyo! Producer, Songwriter, Guitar, Vocals KennyHoopla Survivors Guilt: The Mixtape Keyboards Dirty Heads Rage (Single) Songwriter, Guitar, Keyboards, Additional Production JXDN Tell Me About Tomorrow Guitar, Keyboards Kris Jenner feat. Travis Barker Jingle Bells Piano 2022 Machine Gun Kelly Mainstream Sellout Additional Guitar, Keyboards The Interrupters In The Wild Producer, Songwriter, Guitar, Hammond Organ, Piano, Vocals Bedouin Soundclash We Will Meet In A Hurricane Producer, Vocals, Drums JXDN 28 (Songs For Cooper) Keyboards, String Arrangement 2023 Blink-182 One More Time... Synthesizers, Piano, Organ, Strings, Backing Vocals, Recording Engineer Landon Barker Friends With Your EX Keyboards 2024 JXDN When The Music Stops Keyboards Machine Gun Kelly & Jelly Roll Lonely Road (Single) Keyboards Kim Kardashian Santa Baby Keyboards, Bass Bedouin Soundclash When The Night Feels My Song (Reimagined) Vocals, Mixing Hot Water Music Vows Keyboards 2025 The Rumjacks Dead Anthems Mixing Mattstagraham Yellow Paint Production, Mixing, Keyboards, Composer Alkaline Trio Oblivion (Single) Keyboards Machine Gun Kelly Lost Americana Keyboards Yellowcard Better Days Keyboards The Paradox Bender (Single) Keyboards Crazy & The Brains Cigarette Socialite Production, Mixing, Keyboards
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