RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 11/20/2019 Pinegrove “Phase” The first single from Marigold, in stores 1/17 Added early at WRLT, Music Choice, WCLX, WFIV, WBJB, WJCU, WYCE, XM Loft “Pinegrove continues to make introspective and energetic songs... a song about gratitude in the face of chaos.” - NPR National tour in Feburary Over 95 million total artist streams in the US Watch the video on my site - added to MTV Spankin’ New Music Devon Gilfillian “Unchained” From his debut album Black Hole Rainbow, in stores 1/10 Mediabase 40*, BDS Monitored Debut 34*, Indicator Debut 26*! Over 60 stations on board already! New: KBCO, WRNR, WXRV, WRLT, KCMP, KCSN, KXT, WFPK, WTMD, WCLZ, WNCS... Already on: WFUV, WPYA, WXPN, WXPK, KJAC, KTBG, KVOQ, WERS, WZEW, KPND, WNRN, WYEP... On tour with Grace Potter in Jan/Feb Dan Luke and the Raid “Fool” The first single from their New West debut Out of The Blue, out now New this week: Music Choice, WFPK, KSMF Already on: WTMD, WCLX, WFIV, WYCE, WFHB Just wrapped up a run of dates with Starcrawler then Seratones “Ready to stake their own claim as the next big thing from Bowling Green.” - FLOOD Dan’s brothers are Matt and Brad from Cage The Elephant G. Love “Go Crazy” (feat. Keb’ Mo’) The first single from The Juice, produced by Keb’ Mo’, in stores 1/17 BDS Indicator 24*, JBE Tracks 29, JBE Public 48*! New: WWCT, WCOO, KYMK ON: WRNR, Music Choice, WRLT, WXPN, WFPK, KPND, WCLX, WDST, KJAC, WYEP, KBAC, KMTN, KRML, KVYN, KMMS... “A party jam for our troubled times” - G. Love on the track The album also features Robert Randolph, Marcus King and more That Dog. “If You Just Didn’t Do It” / “Just The Way” Two options for radio from their new album Old LP, out now This is their first album in 22 years, following a string of releases on Geffen in the 90s The video for “Just The Way” features Jack Black and Maya Rudolph in a spoof of Three’s Company New: WCLX, KSLU, WERU Already on WFPK, WFIV, WYCE, KRVM ‘If You Just Didn’t Do It’ picked as a Rolling Stone “Songs You Need To Know” Jesse Malin “Chemical Heart” The new single from Sunset Kids, produced by ON: KJAC, WTMD, WDST, WEXT, KNBA, WBJB, WCLX, WFIV, KRVM, WMWV “Four stars... a celebration of survival that finds the City hardcore troubadour reflecting on life’s precious and fleeting moments.” - Rolling Stone More tour dates in December with more shows announcing soon Watch the video on my site Vampire Weekend “Sunflower” (feat. Steve Lacy) The third single from Father Of The Bride THREE GRAMMY NOMINATIONS! Album Of The Year, Best Alt Album, Best Rock Song (Harmony Hall) BDS New & Active, Mediabase Alternative 45*! New: WCLZ, WCNR, WOCM, WUSM ON: WRLT, KCMP, Music Choice, WXRV, WNCS, WRNR, WPYA, WFUV, WYEP, WERS, KJAC, KVNA, KTBG, WRSI, WJCU, WXCT, KVOQ, WDST... World tour returns to the US in May Saint Motel “Van Horn” The first single from their EP, The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Pt. 1, out now Mediabase 34*, BDS Monitored 33*, Indicator 22*, Mediabase Alt 35*! New: KSPN, KMMS, WZLO, WBSD ON: WXRV, WRNR, WRLT, KRVB, WNCS, WXPK, WPYA, WQKL, Music Choice, WYEP, KJAC, WZEW, KPND, WDST, WCLX, WXCT... 2020 World Tour US dates: 1/24 Orange County, 1/25 San Diego, 1/26 Phoenix, 1/28 Dallas, 1/31 Austin, 2/1 Houston... Mary Bridget Davies “The Right Of Way” From her album Stay With Me: The Reimagined Songs of Jerry Ragovoy, due in 2020 ON: WCLX, WFIV, WYCE, WCBE, KFMG, MSPR, WERU Mary Bridget is a Tony Award nominee for playing Janis Joplin in A Night With Janis Joplin, and has been on tour in that role The late Jerry Ragovoy wrote “Piece Of My Heart” and many others for Janis Joplin and “Time Is On My Side” for the Stones Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe “Something Sweet” The new single from Gnomes & Badgers, out now New: WFPK ON: KCSN, WNRN, WCLX, KBAC, KYSL, WMWV, WYCE, WFIV, WEXT, KMTN, WCLY, WOCM, WBJB, KUWR, KSLU, KRVM, WHRV Toured this month with Thievery Corporation Initial 2020 dates announced Karl spent the summer touring as the saxophone player for The Rolling Stones Relix premiered the official video - watch it on my site now Beth Hart “Bad Woman Blues” The first single from War In My Mind, out now BDS Indicator #30, JBE Tracks #30, Public #21! ON: WRLT, Music Choice, KVNA, KPND, WTMD, KRSH, WAPS, KTBG, WDST, WCLY, WCBE, WEXT, KYSL, WSGE, KROK, KTAO, WOCM, WFIV, WMWV, WCLX, KNBA, KMTN... “Think Janis Joplin meets Etta James” - Mojo Magazine Great sales! Produced by Rob Cavallo (Dave Matthews Band, ) Chadwick Stokes & The Pintos “Hit The Bell With Your Elbow” The first single from his self-titled third solo album, out now New: KBAC, WYCE ON: KJAC, WDST, KRSH, WEXT, WCBE, WFIV, WBJB, WCLX, KMTN, KYSL, WMVY, KNBA, KRML, WJCU, WNCW, WFHB... Chad is also the frontman for Dispatch Tour: 12/4 Holyoke MA, 12/6 NYC, 12/7 Philadelphia, 12/8 DC, 12/10 Ann Arbor, 12/11 Kalamazoo, 12/13 Chicago, 12/14 St. Louis, 12/15 Nashville... Chelsea Cutler & Jeremy Zucker “You Were Good To Me” From their ep brent, out now ON: Music Choice, WZEW, WCOO, KRSH, WCLX, WFIV, WAPS, KYMK, WYCE, WCBE This is a streaming monster, with over 90 million across the board and over 61 million on Spotify alone - gaining around 400K per day “The song is affectingly wrought with the ambivalent agony of leaving someone when it’s not the easy thing to do.”- Paper Magazine Grace Potter “Love Is Love” From Daylight, out now Mediabase #16, BDS Monitored #15, Indicator #4, JBE Public 6*! ON: KGSR, WXRV, KRVB, CIDR, WMMM, WNCS, WRLT, WXPN, WFUV, KCSN, WFPK, KTBG, WRNR, WXPK, WTMD, KXT, WRSI, WYEP, WAPS, WPYA, KVNA, WCLZ, WERS, WQKL, Music Choice... Played on Jimmy Kimmel Live and CBS Saturday Morning this month Extensive headlining tour kicks off in January and runs through March Big Thief “Not” The first single from Two Hands, out now FMQB Public 29*! New: WMNF, WNCW ON: KCMP, WFUV, WFPK, WAPS, WYEP, WYMS, KEXP, Music Choice, KVOQ, WFIV, WCBE, WYCE, WRSI, WCLX, KCLC, WKZE, XM Loft... “A towering statement from a group constantly leapfrogging over themselves.” - Pitchfork “The song is a fan favorite at Big Thief’s live shows, but the studio recording is stunning.” - UPROXX Grammy Nominated: Best Alt Album (UFOF) White Reaper “Might Be Right” From their Elektra debut You Deserve Love, out now Mediabase 7*, BDS Monitored 6*, Indicator 8*, JBE Tracks 5*, Public 22*, Mediabase Alt 11*! ON: Sirius Spectrum, WXRT, KBCO, KGSR, WTTS, WXRV, WMMM, WRLT, KINK, KRVB, WRNR, CIDR, WQKL, KCMP, KCSN, KXT, WXPK, WFUV, WFPK, Music Choice... “A jubilant storm of tight pop rock that’s indebted to the previous generation, but not derivative.” - Consequence of Sound Pete Yorn “Calm Down” From Caretakers, out now Mediabase 4* and heading to #1, BDS Monitored 11*, Indicator #10, JBE Public 35*! New: WJCU, KNBA, WUMB ON: Sirius, WXRT, KGSR, KBCO, WTTS, KRVB, WXRV, WRLT, WRNR, WMMM, WQKL, KINK, WFUV, KCMP, WXPN, KCSN, KXT, WPYA, Music Choice, WNCS, WAPS, WXPK, KUTX, KVNA, KVOQ, WTMD, WCLZ... Full band tour through December Just played on The Tonight Show Chad Stokes talks politics, activism and music with the Boston Herald “Many of the songs on Chad Stokes new album, “Chadwick Stokes & the Pintos,” came together before the last presidential election. That can be hard to believe considering the political tone of the record. A dreamy dub wash of a song, “What’s It Going To Take” cries out at the epidemic of gun violence. A tribute to 38 Dakota men killed in a mass execution in 1862, “Chaska” reminds us of our history of state-sanctioned genocide. “Love and War” speaks of the trauma service men and women carry through life; “Blanket on the Moon” examines America’s immigration policy. “Every song I write is about our relationship with each other,” Stokes said. “And that is politics. So while I am writing about stories that I read about or experience that hit home, these micro stories can be about the macro.” It’s heavy stuff. And the love songs on the album only provide short breaks from the intensity. “I did have a sense, as an album, it needed a couple short, raw, love songs that would invite people further in,” he said. Stokes began his career in Boston-based Dispatch in the mid ’90s. A trio of hippies who looked to Bob Marley, Joe Strummer and Woody Guthrie during the heyday of grunge and hip-hop, Dispatch laid the groundwork for Stoke’s aesthetic and activism (the band’s early reunion concerts raised thousands for charity and incorporated fan service projects). Through 20 years, Stokes has continually tried to be an ally to the oppressed (see the album’s feminist anthem “Joan of Arc”). Right now that means pairing the Pintos’ release with a campaign to combat sexual harassment and assault at music venues through Calling All Crows, a social activist organization founded by Stokes and his wife, Sybil. The 12th annual benefit for Calling All Crows will be Dec. 21 at House of Blues. Now a husband and father, Stokes has constraints on his time that didn’t exist in the Dispatch-takes-the-country-by-van days. But somehow he has become even more prolific. The Pintos’ album marks his fourth solo release of the decade; he has also put out an LP with side band State Radio and three with a reformed Dispatch during that time period. “I’m already working on the next Dispatch record and I’d like to do a rock opera,” he said. Wait, what? “I’d love to create a loud rock record that tells one story over the course of an hour,” he said. “I’ve been dreaming about (it) since early Dispatch and I have a bunch of songs but I’m just waiting for the time and space to jump into it.” Of course, he will still keep writing political anthems. “I know people have Trump fatigue but I have, like, six new songs that are all about the situation that lead to his election or Trump himself,” Stokes said. “It’s almost too much but I can’t stop writing about it.”” - Boston Herald, 11/16/19 Consequence of Sound continues the run of high praise for Big Thief “The Lowdown: There’s a scene late in Paul Schrader’s 2018 film First Reformed where Reverend Ernst Toller, a priest in the midst of a personal crisis played by Ethan Hawke, smokes a joint with his grieving parishioner, played by Amanda Seyfried, and together they embark on what she calls the “Magical Mystery Tour.” They smoke a joint together, levitate, and have out-of-body experiences. The camera follows them floating over the Earth, taking in all of its natural beauty in the form of mountaintops and lush forests before showing dumpsters filled with rubber tires, deforestation, and wanton environmental damage. This scene elicits the same reaction as Two Hands, the new album from Big Thief. It’s adorned in natural beauty but interspersed with glimpses of vio- lence and destruction. The album was recorded in the desert outside El Paso at the world’s largest studio complex, Sonic Ranch. The band regrouped immediately after the sessions that produced their last offering, the cerebral U.F.O.F, to record this follow-up. Two Hands takes songs that have been live favorites for years along with new compositions to craft a crisp, immersive, and overwhelmingly captivating album that puts all of the band’s strengths front and center. The Good: Whereas much of U.F.O.F’s floating beauty was abstract and impressionist, Two Hands resonates deep in the soul with brilliantly crafted songs, like the hypnotic title track where vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist Adrianne Len- ker along with guitarist weave through each other’s riffs or the slowly meandering rhythms and coziness of the warm guitar tones on“Wolf”, which sounds like it could have been an outtake from Yo La Tengo’s And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out . The best songs on the album contain an urgency and danger, like blistering standout “Shoulders”, a dramatic and catchy track where Lenker cries out: “And the blood of the man who killed my mother with his hands is in me/ It’s in me in my veins.” It’s an impassioned cry, one that doubles as an intimate history of violence as well as an allegory for our collective culpability in climate destruction. It’s a theme she revisits in the communal but equally bracing “Forgotten Eyes”. All these elements crash together in a thunderous tempest on album centerpiece “Not”. “It’s not the energy reeling,” Lenker states before breathlessly listing all the things that “it’s” not, “the phone on the table,” “the mess in your purse,” or “the fire lapping up the creek.” She tears through a list of internal, metaphysical, and earthly aspects in a state of chaos, re- peating an image of the planet “not spinning.” All the while the band rises behind her before Lenker erupts into an earth- shaking guitar solo that the framework collapses in on. The band’s boldest, awe-inspiring statement yet finds them churn- ing through unanswerable questions, aware that the ultimate answer might be more terrible than can be comprehended. The entire album finds the band perfectly in sync, each musician’s intricate interplay coalescing together to create magic. The songs shimmer with pristine quality, adorned by Andrew Sarlo’s crystal-eyed production, filled with an immediacy and intimacy that feels like the band is inside the room with you as you put on your headphones. While the songs bristle with internal conflict within, the band have never sounded as assured and interconnected. The hypnotic interplay of the guitars often recalls the heights of In Rainbows, both blown-out and more grounded. The Bad: While a couple of songs can’t quite match the all-encompassing highs of the album’s strong points, very few can be described as bad. The bluesy Americana on “Replaced” is still softly stunning, and the lilting lullaby on opener “Rock and Sing” is entrancing. “Those Girls” may be the only song that drags on the album, a stilted ballad with a fever- dream melody that still serves as a calming segue before the one-two punch of “Shoulders” and “Not”. The Verdict: Looking at the year that Big Thief has had, especially if you count Lenker’s serene solo album, abysskiss, from last October, the band’s hot streak is unparalleled in present-day . It’s reminiscent of a time when rock bands would release a string of classic albums with less than a year in between, a trend only adopted by certain hip-hop artists in today’s music landscape. Two Hands as a whole doesn’t capture the weightless dream logic of U.F.O.F., but it doesn’t try to and stands on its own as a heavier, moodier work. To call this the Amnesiac to that album’s Kid A would be misleading, as Two Hands taps into an elemental fury, connecting the deeply personal with the universal majesty and threats that impact us all. Two Hands ends on “Cut My Hair”, which instead of being a Pavement homage stands dark, coda-filled, bared teeth, a knife at your throat, and burning diamond mines. Keeping the Radiohead references going, its menacing melancholy recalls Hail to the Thief’s closer, “A Wolf at the Door”, even with similar haunting background vocals. Capping one of the strongest years a rock band has had in a while, this stands as a crowning achievement, the perfect record to close out a tumultuous decade and lead into one where the damage may be irreversible. Two Hands asks what responsibility each of us have going into the next era, offering no clear answers. Essential Tracks: “Not”, “Shoulders”, and “Forgotten Eyes”” - Consequence of Sound, 10/9/19 RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 11/20/2019