"The one that really, forever, sticks with me is meeting Elliott Smith. It was '95 or '96. Jon Brion...had been introduced to Elliott and went out and filled a shopping bag with Elliott Smith albums and distributed them to his friends. I was fortunate that I was among them." - Grant-Lee Phillips
Kelly McCartney
Chrissie Hynde once said, “If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are or who you are. If you draw, you draw. I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.” And so it is that we arrived at this week's Needle Drop Record.
Kelly McCartney
"I knew that I was going to have to get out what was bothering me, so that part was clear. I didn't know what things were going to sound like, but I knew what I wanted them to feel like. ... One of the things that stuck out the whole time was me trying to find joy." - Brandee Younger
Kelly McCartney
"I got introduced to electronic music at a very formative age, I feel like. The same with folk music. That was more my roots, but when I was getting more confident as a songwriter, I got introduced to electronic music, so I was just starting to play around with that." - Ásgeir
Kelly McCartney
"I tend to not be drawn to rhyming poems because it plays into the sing-songy part of my brain. So I really enjoy poets like Mary [Oliver] that create their own rhythm in other ways. And it's not usually in that classic structure, but in the way ideas build and form." - Caroline Spence
Kelly McCartney