Jordan Kurland on Turning a Kiss Obsession into a Career

Human Success Stories · Sep 2, 2026 · 1h 4m

Jordan Kurland started collecting Kiss records at six and never really put them down. This episode traces how that turned into a career managing artists — most notably Death Cab for Cutie, who he signed on just months before Transatlanticism changed both their trajectories, and later The Postal Service, whose stadium tour together last year sold out Madison Square Garden in hours. Along the way he co-founded the Noise Pop Festival, now in its 33rd year, and built a decades-long partnership with Dave Eggers on election-season fundraising. It's a grounded conversation about patience, timing…