Per Review magazine, "The origins of Kush Robinson go back to 2017 when guitarist/vocalist/and ringleader Josh Muehlfeld & bassist Kyle O’Keefe, along with Josh’s brother Dan Kreske started jamming in high school together several years earlier. “He found my guitar sitting in a closet and said, ‘Dude, we should be jamming together, so why aren’t we?’ I could play a few power chords, but I started learning more stuff on the Internet and we started jamming together,” explains Josh.  “I didn’t know any scales at the time, but Dan and I started jamming with Kyle on bass and Adonis Freiman on trumpet in this tight little room called the ‘Sweatbox’, where we’d all sit together in a circle and jam for hours. That’s how we got going.”​