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The profile · researched 5 October 2026
Thirty minutes to be remembered: Kami Kehoe's amphitheatre year
The Las Vegas-raised drummer-turned-frontwoman released her second album, LOVE IS A WEAPON, on 28 August 2026 and is spending the autumn opening amphitheatres for Breaking Benjamin before her first Australian shows in December.
A drum kit before a microphone
Kehoe grew up in Las Vegas and now works out of Los Angeles. She started on drums at three, and by six was playing in a band with her two older sisters, drumming, writing and handling backing vocals. The order matters: the voice that fronts her records was the last instrument she learned to trust, and she spent a decade as the person at the back of the stage before she stood at the front of it.
Her first record deal was made public on 15 May 2024 — a joint arrangement with Coup D'État Music and 10K Projects, with Grass Fed Management handling management and Wasserman Music booking the shows. By that point she had amassed over 200 unreleased songs, and her working method was already set: she writes her own lyrics, produces and engineers much of her own material, and works closely with the collaborator Curt Martin rather than with a rotating cast of writers.
Speaking to idobi Warped Radio in June 2025, she framed the shift from drummer to singer as the central risk of her career, and named Travis Barker, John Feldmann, Ekoh, Lzzy Hale and Amy Lee among the people she had studied. The drumming never went away — it is still the thing that opens her live set.
Drama Queen, then REVIVED
Her 2023 debut album Drama Queen was built as a concept record tracking the stages of recovery from a broken heart, and it sat closer to pop than to rock: hooks first, with the guitars in support. The following year's REVIVED, released through Coup D'État and 10K Projects, dropped the hedging and committed to alt-rock outright.
REVIVED carried SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD, which spread on TikTok and became the song that introduced her to most of the people who now know her name. It also set the template she has worked in since — heavy guitars underneath a vocal that keeps some R&B phrasing rather than flattening into a rock shout.
She has described the split in her output plainly: she writes for herself and releases for other people, and calls music her form of therapy. That accounts for the diaristic specificity of the records, and for the fact that the heartbreak material keeps arriving in batches rather than as isolated singles.
Learning rooms the hard way
2025 was the apprenticeship. She made her Warped Tour debut that summer, then released the five-track KANDY EP in July, a short breakup record that pulled in millions of streams and a reported 100 million short-form video views. From October to November she crossed North America as support for P.O.D., Daughtry and Seether, three separate audiences with three separate ideas of what a rock show should be.
She also played Louder Than Life in Louisville that year, which she called the biggest crowd she had performed to. Asked in September 2025 how she prepares for a jump in scale, her answer was that it makes no difference whether there are three people or 3,000 in front of her, because the set is played as though there are always 3,000. She returned to Louder Than Life on 19 September 2026, this time mid-tour rather than as a one-off booking.
Alongside the music she has talked about setting up a programme for foster youth and aspiring artists, which she calls the Spark Program — stated as an intention rather than an operating venture.
LOVE IS A WEAPON
The second album was announced in mid-July 2026 alongside the single THE END, and arrived on 28 August 2026 through Atlantic Records — a label step up from the Coup D'État and 10K Projects arrangement that carried REVIVED. It runs to 15 tracks and gathers the singles DIRTY, HEARTLESS and PSYCHO, the last of which is aimed squarely at a toxic ex.
Kehoe's account of the record is that she wrote it while working out that love is not one thing: that it can break a person, heal them, protect them, and change who they are. The songs put sultry vocal phrasing against heavy riffs and modern electronic production, pulling in shoegaze and hip-hop textures where REVIVED stayed mostly in a straight alt-rock lane.
THE END is the outlier — an atmospheric song about a partner who stayed from before the career took off, which she wanted to sound like a promise, and which she has named as one of her favourites to play. The earlier single DOPAMINE has passed 30 million streams and reached No. 11 on SiriusXM Octane's Big Uns countdown, which is the clearest evidence so far that the rock-radio audience, not just the algorithm, has taken to her.
Where she stands now
Pandora named her one of its Artists to Watch for 2026. Her catalogue has passed 105 million streams, she has more than two million social media followers, and reviewers covering the autumn tour put her Spotify monthly listeners at around 1.7 million — respectable for an opening act on an amphitheatre bill, and the reason she is on it.
That bill was announced on 17 February 2026: Breaking Benjamin across North America with Chevelle, Starset and Kehoe as special guests, presales from 18 February and general on-sale from 20 February. The run opened on 2 September at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion in Camden, New Jersey and closes on 24 October at Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia, taking in Toronto, Denver, Las Vegas, Anaheim and Fort Worth along the way. As of early October 2026, twelve dates remain on sale, from Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre in Phoenix on 5 October through to the Bristow finale.
After that comes her Australian debut: Good Things Festival in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in December 2026, with club sideshows attached — Oxford Art Factory in Darlinghurst on 2 December, The Brightside in Fortitude Valley on 8 December and the Corner Hotel in Richmond on 9 December. Those sideshows are the first real test of whether she can sell a room on her own name rather than borrow a crowd from a headliner.
Thirty minutes, nine songs
The current set is a support slot run like a statement. She takes the stage first of four, opens behind the drum kit, and then moves between kit and microphone across the set — reviewers of the September dates singled out the switching as the thing that made people pay attention, and one described her flatly as both a singer and a serious drummer rather than a vocalist with a novelty party trick.
The material is weighted to the new record. At Burgettstown on 15 September she played nine songs, five of them from LOVE IS A WEAPON, which had been out barely a fortnight. A week later at Mystic Lake Amphitheater in Shakopee the set was eight songs in roughly half an hour, and at Council Bluffs on 20 September it ran PSYCHO, SOMETHING IN THE WATER, FADE OUT, DIRTY, THE END, LOVE IS A WEAPON, SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD and DOPAMINE — the viral song late, the radio song last.
The verdicts have been consistent rather than ecstatic, which is about right for a half-hour opening slot: energy, tight timing from the band, and the name retained. Nobody writing about these shows has described a production of her own — the staging is the headliner's, and what she brings is the kit, the band and the pace.
The show, now
Kehoe currently plays the opening slot on a four-act amphitheatre bill, and gets about thirty minutes for eight or nine songs. She comes out behind the drum kit and plays, then moves out front to sing, swapping between the two across the set with a full band behind her; reviewers of the September 2026 dates picked that out as the thing that made the set stick, with one calling her both a genuine singer and a serious drummer. The material leans hard on LOVE IS A WEAPON — five of the nine songs at Burgettstown on 15 September came from the album, released only on 28 August — and the running order at Council Bluffs on 20 September was PSYCHO, SOMETHING IN THE WATER, FADE OUT, DIRTY, THE END, LOVE IS A WEAPON, SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD and DOPAMINE, closing on the song that has done best at rock radio. There is no production of her own: the staging belongs to Breaking Benjamin, and Chevelle and Starset play between her and the headliner. Write-ups from Shakopee, Burgettstown and Council Bluffs agree on the same points — no wasted time in the half hour, tight playing from the band, and a name the crowd remembered afterwards. Her own stated approach is that the size of the room is irrelevant and the set is played as though 3,000 people are watching regardless.
Researched from melodicmag.com · hq.rostr.cc · idobi.com · therockrevival.com · rocksound.tv · news.livenationentertainment.com · setlist.fm · songkick.com
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