# Kevin Bivona

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 |
| 2010 | Dirt Nasty | Nasty as I Wanna Be | Mixing |
| 2010 | Devils Brigade | Devils Brigade | Engineer |
| 2011 | Sublime with Rome | Yours Truly | Musician, vocals |
| 2011 | The Cool Kids | When Fish Ride Bicycles | Engineer |
| 2011 | Jimmy Cliff | Sacred Fire EP | Guitar, piano, engineer, mixing |
| 2011 | 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 |
| 2012 | Yelawolf | Psycho White | Keyboards |
| 2013 | Transplants | In a Warzone | Bass, engineer, guitar, keyboards |
| 2014 | Various Artists | 22 Jump Street soundtrack | Composer, "Live Forever" |
| 2014 | The Interrupters | The Interrupters | Guitar, vocals, songwriter, engineer |
| 2014 | 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 |
| 2017 | Rancid | Trouble Maker | Engineer, Melodica, Piano, Hammond B3 |
| 2018 | The Interrupters | Fight the Good Fight | Guitar, vocals, songwriter, engineer |
| 2018 | Madball | For The Cause | Engineer |
| 2018 | 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 |
| 2021 | The Mighty Mighty Bosstones | When God Was Great | Guitar, Piano, Organ, Background Vocals |
| 2021 | Trippie Redd & Travis Barker | Neon Shark vs Pegasus | Keyboards |
| 2021 | The Interrupters | Live In Tokyo! | Producer, Songwriter, Guitar, Vocals |
| 2021 | KennyHoopla | Survivors Guilt: The Mixtape | Keyboards |
| 2021 | Dirty Heads | Rage (Single) | Songwriter, Guitar, Keyboards, Additional Production |
| 2021 | JXDN | Tell Me About Tomorrow | Guitar, Keyboards |
| 2021 | Kris Jenner feat. Travis Barker | Jingle Bells | Piano |
| 2022 | Machine Gun Kelly | Mainstream Sellout | Additional Guitar, Keyboards |
| 2022 | The Interrupters | In The Wild | Producer, Songwriter, Guitar, Hammond Organ, Piano, Vocals |
| 2022 | JXDN | 28 (Songs For Cooper) | Keyboards, String Arrangement |
| 2023 | Blink-182 | One More Time... | Keyboards, Piano, Synthesizers, Backing Vocals, Recording Engineer |