RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 4/5/2017 SYML “Where’s My Love” Pronounced “SIMM-ul” and translates to “simple” in Welsh The first solo project from Barcelona founding member Brian Fennell Over 10 million streams already on Spotify and over 1.3 million monthly listeners With a keen grasp on textural and emotive songwriting, Fennell combines bare piano, minimalist synth and string-scapes with ethereal vocals to take the listener on a journey through the senses. The Whistles & The Bells “Harry Potter” The first single from Modern Plagues, out this Friday Added early at WRLT, WFIV and KUWR On PlayMPE now Full cd on your desk (clean version of the single online) On tour in May: 5/2 Cleveland, 5/3 Pittsburgh, 5/4 Buffalo, 5/5 Rochester, 5/6 Syracuse, 5/9 NYC, 5/10 Boston, 5/11 Philadelphia, 5/12 Washington DC Watch the video on our site now Current Swell “It Ain’t Right” The first single from When To Talk And When To Listen, in stores May 12 First week: WTMD, KBAC, KROK, KNBA, KCLC Early at WFIV, WBJB and WJCU Produced by Grammy-winning producer Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, Norah Jones, Cold War Kids...) Catch them on their US tour dates, kicking off May 3 “Current Swell knows how to put on one hell of a show” - Music Vice Andrew Combs “Blood Hunters” The first single from Canyons of my Mind, in stores Friday First week: WNCW, KBAC, WVOD, WCBE, KRVM, WUSM Early at WRLT, KEXP, WFIV, WBJB, WYEP, WDVX, KSMF “One of Nashville’s most poetically gifted young singer-songwriters” - NPR Music “Opens with Combs’ soothingly gorgeous vocals on haunting echo and spare electric guitar that crescendos into a fierce, Seattle-riffed fury.” - Rolling Stone On tour! Trombone Shorty “Here Come The Girls” The first single from Parking Lot Symphony, in stores April 28 This is an Allen Toussaint track from 1970 FMQB Tracks 51* New at WFPK, KPIG, WVOD, KVNA, WUSM Already on WYEP, WERS, KJAC, KBAC, WOCM, WEXT, WCBE, WJCU, WMWV, KNBA, KHUM, WFIV, WEHM, KRML, WRSI, KROK, WSGE, WUKY, KDEC, KSUT, WUIN, WKZE, KMTN, KUWR, KKAL... His US tour kicks off June 2 Ryan Montbleau “Bright Side” The first single from I Was Just Leaving, out now Produced by Anders Osborne Added at Acoustic Cafe this week! Already on: WEXT, WCBE, WMVY, WJCU, WFIV, WYCE, KFMG, MSPR, WUMB Great interview features in Glide and The Boot On tour now: 4/6 Ardmore PA, 4/7 Baltimore, 4/8 Winsted CT, 4/12 Rochester NY, 4/13 Syracuse, 4/14 Holyoke MA, 4/15 Cambridge... John Mellencamp “Grandview” The new single from Sad Clowns & Hillbillies, on PlayMPE now, in stores April 28 New at WDST, WBJB, KHUM and WLKR Already added at KCSN, KVNA, KBAC, KPND, WMWV, WFIV, WUMB, KPIG, WEXT, KMTN, KROK, KTAO, WEHM, KNBA, KRVM, WHRV, WMVY, KDBB... Featuring vocals by Martina McBride Watch the lyric video on our site Extensive national tour in June with Emmylou Harris and Lilly And Madeleine Noah Kahan “Young Blood” His debut single on Republic Records Already on KGSR, WXRV, WPYA, WWCT, KRSH, KPND, WAPS, WCOO, WZEW, WEXT, WOCM, KCLC, WFIV, KSLU, KRVM and KUWR Toured with Milky Chance, out in June with Anderson East Over 2 million streams on Spotify! Noah hails from the small town of Strafford VT (population: 1000) Watch the acoustic video shot in his yard on our site The Weeks “Talk Like That” The first single from Easy, in stores Friday New at KDEC Already on WRLT, WYMS, WJCU, WSGE, WFIV, WYCE, KDBB, WUSM, KUWR “Their music still kicks with the same hard-bitten affirmations that made them better than weekends in the first place” - American Songwriter Opened for Kings of Leon in March and played SXSW National tour going on now Official video & OurVinyl performance on our site Dispatch “Only The Wild Ones” The first single from America, Location 12, in stores June 2 Mediabase 43*, BDS Monitored New & Active, Indicator 18*, FMQB Tracks 27*, Public 33*! New at WRLT, WNCS, WRSI and WSGE Already on WXRV, WRNR, KCSN, WXPK, WFUV, WXPN, KTHX, WZEW, WERS, WTMD, WCLZ, KRSH, WPYA, WCOO, KJAC, KCLC, WJCU, WDST and more Large venue tour kicks off June 16 with Guster opening The Mavericks “Damned (If You Do)” The new single from Brand New Day, out now FMQB Public 26*! New at WFPK, WMVY and WZLO Already on WFUV, KJAC, WRSI, WEXT, WFHB, WMWV, WKZE, WNCW, KTBG, XM Loft, WYCE, WCBE, KPIG, WOCM and more Catch them live at the NON-COMMvention! Great press including Rolling Stone, LA Times, Glide, Paste, American Songwriter, Relix... On tour this spring, dates start this month Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors “Fight For Love” The first single from Souvenir, in stores now Already on: WRLT, WCNR, KBAC, KPIG, KNBA, KCLC, WEXT, WUIN, WFIV, WYCE, WDVX, WFHB, WMWV, WNRN, WTYD, WXTG, WCBE, WBJB, WSGE, WUMB and more National tour going on now Over 140,000 albums to date, played over 2000 shows in seven countries and have had their music placed in over 50 tv shows Alex Lahey “Wes Anderson” The first single from B Grade University Full EP available digitally New at KVOQ/Open Air Already on KCMP, WCNR, KCLC, WCBE, KROK, KVNA, WLKR, WFIV, KUWR Just wrapped up a run of US tour dates Supported Tegan & Sara in the UK “The kind of startling impressive debut that you just know is going to catch on” - Brooklyn Vegan Watch the hysterical video for the single on our site Paper Route “Balconies” From their album Real Emotion, out now Already on WRLT, WCBE, KBAC, KVNA, KCLC, WFIV, KHUM, KROK, WVOD, KKAL, KDEC... Toured with Imagine Dragons, Passion Pit, Paramore and Mutemath “Melodic emotional synth rock that pulses with an ambient undercurrent... Paper Route are America’s answer to symphonic pop artists like Elbow, M83 and AIR” - Rolling Stone Watch their Seth Meyers set on our site Cold War Kids “Love Is Mystical” The first single from L.A. Divine, in stores April 7 Mediabase 3*, BDS Monitored 3*, Indicator 2*, FMQB Tracks 2*, Public 22*! New: KRVO, KSNO Already on: KBCO, KFOG, WXRT, KGSR, SiriusXM, WXRV, WMMM, KRVB, CIDR, KINK, WTTS, KCMP, WQKL, KPND, KTHX, WPYA, WRLT, WRNR, WWCT, WXPK, KJAC, WAPS, WTMD, WCLZ, WZEW, WERS, WFPK, WEHM... North American tour going on now Jamestown Revival “Poor Man’s Gold” The new single from The Education of a Wandering Man Already on WYEP, WUIN, WBJB, WFIV, KHUM, WCBE, KMTN, WMWV, KVNA, KRVM, WOCM, WSGE, WUSM, WLKR, KSLU, KDEC, KUWR, KDBB An extensive list of spring tour dates announced Check out their amazing Living Room Session performance video on our site now Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears “Sexual Tension” The first single from Backlash, out now Already on KEXP, WERS, WTMD, WRSI, WFIV, WBJB, Open Air, WBJB, KHUM, WCBE, WKZE, KSUT, KKAL, WYCE, KXCI, KRCC, KVNF, KAXE, MSPR, WFHB, KDHX, KDBB, KDNK “The dynamic singer and guitarist is one of Texas’ most explosive front men” - Houston Press Headlined the Radio Day Stage at SXSW! Passenger “Anywhere” The new single from Young As The Morning, Old As The Sea Mediabase 21*, BDS Monitored 20*, Indicator #19, FMQB Tracks 19*! Already on: KBCO, WXRV, KINK, WMMM, WRLT, KRVB, WNCS, KCSN, WQKL, WPYA, Music Choice, KTHX, WZEW, WAPS, WDST, WERS, WCNR... US tour going on now! Passenger has had over 1 billion streams in the US alone and has sold over 9 million singles worldwide The Outdoor Type “On My Mind” The first single from the upcoming album Day To Day FMQB Tracks 49*, Public #51! New at WCLZ and WLKR Already on: KINK, KCSN, KTBG, WTMD, KPND, WAPS, WZEW, KRSH, KRML, WFIV, KVNA, KYSL, WPYA, WFPK, WCOO, KCLC, WVOD, KROK, KNBA... “If you talk about bands like The War on Drugs as Americana, The Outdoor Type is the epitome of Australiana” - Indie Shuffle River Whyless “Life Crisis” Angelica Garcia “Orange Flower” The new single from We All The Light New: WLKR ON: KUTX, WFIV, KCLC, KNBA, WKZE, From her debut album Medicine For Birds Already on KCMP, KCSN, WYCE, WFIV, KSUT, KHUM, WMVY... “RW doesn’t play country, folk or roots rock. Think Paul Simon; think WNCW, WNRN, WCBE, WERU, KSMF, WFIT, WYSO, KXCI, WJCU, KVNA, KRCL, WFHB... imaginative arrangements with accents of music from around the world.” - Bob Boilen/NPR On Bob Boilen’s top 40 songs of 2016 playlist NPR Music’s top 100 songs of 2016 The xx “On Hold” Nikki Lane “Jackpot” The first single from I See You Spotify nearing 50MM Mediabase 8*, BDS Monitored 10*! The first single from Highway Queen Mediabase #33, BDS Monitored 30*, FMQB Tracks US tour dates coming up ON: WXRT, KGSR, KBCO, KFOG, WTTS, WMMM, KRVB, KINK, #33, Public 14*! Already on: WXRV, WFUV, KINK, KCMP, WRLT, KCSN, XM Loft, KTHX, KEXP, WXRV, WRNR, KPND, WPYA, WRLT, WQKL, WNCS... Video now over 15MM views KUTX, WTMD, KTBG... “As unapologetic as Johnny Cash’s middle finger” - Rolling Stone American Songwriter gives four stars to the new Andrew Combs album “Look no further than the muted, hazy cover and inner sleeve photos of a solitary Andrew Combs seeming small and overwhelmed by the nature around him to get a sense of the overall vibe emanat- ing from his first album since 2015’s breakthrough. Between the ripped from the headlines social commentary of “Bourgeois King” (“We’ll build a wall to block the enemy/ build a wall to keep us free”) set against sawing strings, fluttering flute, strangulat- ed guitar and an insistent beat, and the melancholy emptiness of searching for a lost lover in “Sleep- walker” (“I’m sleep-calling out your name”) atop a bed of brushed drums, drifting pedal steel and rubbery stand-up bass, Combs doesn’t sound like a guy who just got married to his longtime girlfriend between the release of this and his previous disc. That’s especially the case where he pines for the unrequited love of “Hazel” (“Oh Hazel, I dream each night about your love”), laments the loss of “Lauralee” (“the bed that you once shared with me/ lies there like my enemy”) with a haunted emptiness in his already emotionally gripping hushed voice, and realizes the relationship with an unnamed woman is over in “What it Means to You” (“It was good the first time/ but all good things must end”). Those whose ear Combs caught with his countrypolitan inflected earlier work will need to adjust to a change in sonic direction here. The opening “Heart of Wonder” pits startling, unexpected twisted electric guitar and squawking sax into a mix that lays down the gaunt- let for an album that shifts moods and approaches song by song. There’s still a patina of the gentle-on-my-mind vibe from his previous collection. It’s most obvious in the breezy, string and sweet pedal steel enhanced “Rose Colored Blues,” an enticing, hypnotically me- lodic song that would have sounded at home next to Glen Campbell’s similarly styled productions 30 years ago. There is also a nod to environmental concerns on the self-explanatory, deceptively sweet and tender “Dirty Rain” (“Flat and static/ paved in progress name”) which starts out with lone acoustic guitar before strings well up to augment the honeyed/sad ballad. But Combs predominantly explores the darker side concerning matters of the heart, a natural fit for his lovely and affecting voice. Gorgeous, sympathetic production from Skylar Wilson and Jordan Lehning enhances these songs, adding the right balance of gravitas that, even with strings and backing vocals, never intrudes on Combs’ melodies. While you may wish this newlywed was a little hap- pier, this is a superb, emotionally poignant album that displays and expands Andrew Combs’ impressive songwriting, musical and vocal talents. Rating: four stars” - American Songwriter, 4/4/17 Clash Magazine delves into the new album from The Weeks “Ten years after forming at high school in Jackson, Mississippi, The Weeks are a unit fortified by famil- iarity. A decade devoted to rock ‘n’ roll has fused a bond between the quartet that leaves little need for conversation, for their music does all the talking. They are - almost literally - a brotherhood. At the centre of this telepathic fraternity are twins Cyle and Cain Barnes - on vocals and drums re- spectively - who are joined by comrades Samuel Williams on guitar and Damien Bone on drums. They’re steeped in the classic components of southern rock, creating swampy songs that draw influ- ence from the abundant soul, blues and rock ‘n’ roll sounds that have long coalesced in the humid air that swirls down that way. Having penetrated their bloodstream, The Weeks turn these elements into a distinctly natural and instinctive sound of their own that’s as sexy as it is smart. They’ve been compared to early Kings Of Leon, and it’s an association that both bands appreciate: The Weeks were previously on the Kings’ own Serpents & Snakes label, on which they released albums ‘Gutter Gaunt Gangster’ and ‘Dear Bo Jackson’, and only recently supported their friends on their North American tour. Third record ‘Easy’ is released next Friday, but Clash has the global exclusive stream to let you hear it a week early. Speaking about the refined sonic palette of ‘Easy’, Damien explained: “We just wanted to make a rock record. We weren’t as concerned about making it a southern rock record. The southern thing is always going to part of what we do.” “With the last record we threw the kitchen sink at it,” Samuel adds. “The arrangements were lush and flushed out with horns and singers and pedal steels and even a track where we had a dozen friends with different sized floor toms like a Nigerian wedding drum circle. With ‘Easy’ we wanted to strip it back and write songs with less chords and focus more on keeping it simple. Our time away was really introspec- tive into what we do best and how do we do it better. We’ve always been a rock band first so we just dug our heels into Thin Lizzy/T Rex/Big Star/ZZ Top and let ’er rip.” Recording took place at the legendary and historic Ardent Studios in Memphis, a city symbolically in the middle of hometown Jackson and new home, Nashville. The geographic retreat enabled that space required to determine and effect change, but the studio itself also played its part. “We made the record in the same room as The Replacements’ ‘Pleased To Meet Me’ and ZZ Top’s ‘Tres Hombres’,” Sam reveals, “so it was hard to keep that juju from dropping into the record. The only organ on the record is Booker T’s Hammond from ‘Green Onions’, and the Mellotrons were on the Big Star records. Memphis and Ardent Studios were a big part of the sound.” Reflecting on the album’s title, Cyle admitted: “We called it ‘Easy’ because every time I make music with these guys, it’s easy. It feels good. But the other side of it is there’s nothing easy about being in a band. There’s nothing easy about staying together for 10 years and still want- ing to make music. We have the hardest and easiest job on the planet. But it works for us.” “We toured ‘Dear Bo Jackson’ for so long that we knew if we immediately followed that with a record and another tour it would fry us,” Samuel says. “We wanted to take a step back and get back to our band dynamic when we were teenagers. We literally had five sleepovers a week where we’d just hang and write music with no intentions whatsoever. With all the issues that bands run into when it comes to staying together for over 10 years, our answer has always been, “Easy.” Things that take bands down have never phased us.” - Clash Magazine, 3/31/17 Coming up... April 17: Bodeans “EvryBdy Wants”... May 1: Jackie Greene “Modern Lives” RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 4/5/2017