Ezra Kire

Ezra Kire (born Ezra Cannon, December 30, 1975) is an American musician with the punk band Morning Glory, and is an ex-member of punk bands Leftöver Crack, Choking Victim and InDK. He currently resides in New York City.

Ezra Kire was born on December 30, 1975, in the town of Grand Forks, North Dakota, near the Canada–US border. In his youth his family frequently move across North America, then eventually to Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he attended high school at the Overseas School of Colombo. It was there that he started his first band with friend Derek Dees. In 1990 the two 8th graders played their first show at the school cafeteria, along with another two shows later that year, including the senior prom. After leaving Sri Lanka, Ezra moved to the small Canadian town of Nelson, British Columbia, where he played in the band Dead Faculty. After Ben Millard joined on guitar they played for a few years before Millard and Erza formed Celler Of The Sun, with Dale Butterfield on drums and Ferdy Belland on bass. They recorded two albums before Ezra suffered a mental breakdown and moved to the United States.

In 1998 Kire joined the political ska-punk band Choking Victim on lead guitar. After the release of their debut album in 1999, No Gods, No Managers, the members went their separate ways, having broken up during the recording session for the album. During this period Kire formed the band InDK, and began recording music by himself under the moniker Morning Glory. In 2001 he reunited with former Choking Victim bandmate Scott "Stza" Sturgeon, to join his fledgling political ska-punk band Leftöver Crack.

From early on Leftöver Crack experienced a publicized dispute with their record label, Hellcat Records (a subsidiary of Epitaph Records) over censorship regarding their proposed album title Shoot the Kids at School, and its accompanying artwork. On September 11, 2001 Leftöver Crack released their debut album Mediocre Generica. In order to avoid further contractual disputes with the label, the band released their split EP with F-Minus Baby Jesus, Sliced Up In The Manger under the pseudonym The Crack Rock Steady 7 in 2001 with Hell Bent Records. For their second album Fuck World Trade (2004) the bandmoved to Jello Biafra's label Alternative Tentacles, and recorded the album in Chicago with engineer/producer Steve Albini. In addition to this publicized dispute with their label, Leftöver Crack attracted considerable attention from the NYPD.

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