Kelly McClure, formerly the publicist at K Records, joins the team at Riot Act Media!

Kelly sprouted from the bean fields of Illinois in 1977. She learned about wholesome fundamentals there before being swept away by her parents to Southern California at the age of 7, where those fundamentals forked into a new desire to say “she’s all” with frequency. She spent her formative years in Riverside, California and it was there that a new group of friends (and a few exchanged mixed tapes filled with feminist punk/pop bands like Sleater-Kinney, The Need, and Team Dresch) changed her life forever and sent her on a path towards music servitude in all its many forms.

After high school, she relocated back to Illinois to get her degree in journalism at a college that was literally in the middle of a corn field. Diploma in hand, she freelanced in Chicago for several years, (and ate many hot dogs) then flew the coop for the big crapple itself, New York City – which she will tell you is her favorite city out of all cities ever. While in NYC, Kelly worked as the Associate Music Editor for Bust Magazine.

Aside from being a dedicated, creative, and energetic publicist, Kelly is also an accomplished writer whose work has appeared in Bust Magazine, Vice, The Chicago Reader, New City, Curve, XoJane, Thought Catalog, and The Hairpin.

Kelly comes to us from K Records, where she served as the label’s in-house publicist. While there, she helmed successful campaigns for Chain and the Gang, LAKE, Arrington de Dionyso, The Curious Mystery, Christmas, Angelo Spencer, Nucular Aminals, and The Hive Dwellers. Following her tenure at K, the stanky streets of Brooklyn planted seeds of homesickness in Kelly and called her back to the East Coast, where she will be stationed from here on out. Excelsior!