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RAR Newsletter 120829.Indd RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 8/29/2012 Elle King “Playing For Keeps” The first single from The Elle King EP, going for adds now! Early adds: KCSN, WFIV, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT, WSGE This is also the theme to the hit VH1 show Mob Wives Chicago Killer shows at Non-Comm and Boulder Just played on Letterman Esquire: Artist To Watch Entertainment Weekly: “Dangerously catchy” EP on the way to Non-Comm now John Hiatt “We’re Alright Now” Grace Potter & The Nocturnals “Runaway” #1 Most Added! First week: WXRT, WFPK, WEHM, KPND, KRSH, WDST, KOZT, BDS Most Added! First week: WNCS, WCLZ, KRSH, KCKC, KBAC, KCLC, KFMU, KSPN, WDST... WVMP, WBJB, WKZE, KPIG, WEXT, WJCU... Early: KCSN, WNKU, WMVY... Early: KCSN, WFIV, WNRN, KOHO, WMWV, KBAC, KROK, WUIN, KTBG, WOCM... Full band dates running through the fall Mystic Pinball in stores September 25 Produced and co-written by Dan Auerbach Headline tour starts in October Martin Harley “Mojo Fix” Ben Folds Five “Do It Anyway” The title track from his new album, in stores 9/18 New: WEXT, WFIV, KSMT, KUNC BDS Indicator Most Added! New: WEHM, KSMT, KHUM, WVMP, WDIY, KDTR Killed it at the Late Night Lounge in Boulder on Friday night! On the road now ON: WXPK, KCMP, WXPN, WFUV, WFPK, XM Loft, WERS, WYEP, WTMD, KSPN, Early: KINK, WZEW, KRSH, WOCM, KFMU, KSPN Full cd on the way to radio KFMU, WCNR, KBAC, WMVY, KOHO... Full album in stores 9/18 Tour starts soon Slightly Stoopid “Top Of The World” Somebody’s Darling “Cold Hands” In stores now! Big sales! On tour now with 311, headlining in October From the album Jank City Shakedown, in stores Tuesday Tour in September New: KMTN, WFIT, KSMF ON: KFMU, KSPN, KYSL, WCBE, KSMT, KCLC, New: KROK, KDNK, MSPR ON: WFIV, KBAC, WCBE, KFMU, KSPN, WYCE “...Like if Janis KBAC, WOCM, KROK, WTYD, WWNU, WBJB, WFIV... Modern Rock Top 30! Joplin hopped on the microphone during an Old 97’s and Slobberbone show” - Dallas Observer Citizen Cope “Something To Believe In” The Whigs “Waiting” BDS New & Active! Indicator Debut 26*! New: WXRT, WERS, DMX, KTAO, KUNC... Enjoy The Company in stores September 18 New: WWCT, WCNR, DMX ON: KINK, WRNR, WXPN, WFUV, KCMP, KRSH, KPND, WTMD, KCLC, WDST, KBAC, ON: WRLT, KCSN, WBJB, KROK, WEXT, WFPK, WNRN, WFIV, KFMU, KYSL, KMTN, WEXT, WOCM, KNBA, KTBG... Extensive touring through November KSPN, WHRV, KDHX... Extensive tour dates run September-November Sarah Jaffe “Mannequin Woman” Susanna Hoffs “Raining” New: XM Loft, KCSN, KCLC ON: KXT, KRSH, WZEW, WNKU, WFIV, DMX, From Someday, also featuring “Picture Me,” “November Sun,” and more WCBE, WJCU... New dates added with David Gray in October NPR: “Jaffe Produced by Mitchell Froom, in stores now Great press Upcoming dates has completed the transition from ‘musician’ to ‘artist,’ and she wears it well.” ON: WFIV, WNRN, WKZE, WCBE, KDHX, WDIY, WHRV, WCBE, Acoustic Cafe... Robert Cray Band “(Won’t Be) Coming Home” Joshua Radin “Underwater” BDS Indicator 24*! FMQB Public 27*! New: MPR, KAXE ON: WXPK, KRSH, WBJB, New: KHUM, MPR ON: KPRI, KRSH, WCBE, WVMP, WNRN, WFIV, WJCU, WNKU, WAPS, KOZT, KPIG, KROK, KFMU, KSPN, WYCE, KSUT, KYSL... On Leno 9/4! KFMU, KSPN, WYCE, KLCC, MSPR, KRVM, WHRV, KFMG, Acoustic Cafe... Tour thru Dec Five time Grammy winner, 15 time nominee, 12+ million albums Extensive tour with A Fine Frenzy begins October 11 Just played Leno Jesse Harris “Rocking Chairs” (w/Norah Jones) Charlie Mars “Let The Meter Run” ON: WFUV, WTMD, WMVY, WVMP, KBAC, WNCW, WCBE, WNRN, BDS Indicator 17*! FMQB Tracks 25*! Public 18*! New: WZEW, WDST, KMMS, WFHB... WFIV, KSUT, KFMU, KSPN, KNBA, WYCE, KXCI, KRVM, WERU... ON: WRNR, KRSH, WEHM, WCOO, WCNR, KXT, WFUV, WMVY, WJCU, KCLC, KSMT, Sub Rosa also feat. Conor Oberst & Melody Gardot Just toured with Jesca Hoop WBJB, WCBE, KOHO, WEXT... In stores now, great in Boulder, Steve Earle tour coming Walk The Moon “Anna Sun” ZZ Ward “Put The Gun Down” BDS Monitored 17*! New: KPND, Music Choice ON: KFOG, KBCO, KGSR, KINK, KTCZ, WXRV, BDS New & Active! Killer show in Boulder September tour dates KPRI, Sirius,WRNR, WMMM, WRLT, WXPK, WCLZ, KTHX, KRSH, WCOO, KCKC, WCNR... New: Dave-FM, WXRY ON: Sirius, KPRI, WRNR, WXPK, WCLZ, KCSN, KRSH, KKXT, KPND, Already went top 10 at Modern Rock! More tour dates announced for November WZEW, WCOO, WTMD, WEXT, KTAO, KMMS, KSMT, KCLC, KYSL, KSMT, DMX AA... The Fixx “Anyone Else” Graffiti6 “Stare Into The Sun” Their 10th studio album, Beautiful Friction, in stores now! Just played on Kimmel BDS Monitored #22! ON: KTCZ, Dave-FM, WXRV, KINK, WRNR. CIDR, New: KDHX, MSPR ON: KPRI, KCKC, WZEW, KTHX, KRSH, KPND, KCSN, WTMD, KRVB, KTHX, WQKL, KCKC, WCLZ, WCOO, KPND, KRSH, WZEW, WYMS, WCNR, KCLC, KSPN, KTAO, KYSL, KSKI, KFMU, KMTN, WBJB, Music Choice... WAPS, WFPK, KKXT, WYEP, WCNR... Video online and added to MTV Hits The New Yorker shows Nothin But Love to the Robert Cray Band “Robert Cray has been one of the most reliable pleasures of soul and blues for almost three decades now, an assessment that sounds like faint praise but shouldn’t. Cray is still mostly remembered for his 1986 release, “Strong Persuader,” which remains one of the best albums of his career, because it would have been one of the best albums of anyone’s career. Cray released five studio LPs in the ensuing decade and has maintained an enviable recording and touring schedule, and, while that professionalism steadily increases his body of work, it also means that individual albums tend to pass by somewhat anonymously. It would be a mistake if that same fate befell his sixteenth album, Nothin But Love. The leadoff track, “Won’t Be Coming Home,” has a familiar story—woman leaves man, man can’t get past it—stretched over a menacing keyboard line and a surging chorus. As always, it’s bolstered by Cray’s writing, which has the compression of short fiction: “Two days later I get a letter / A picture of a room in some hotel / Sitting framed up on the table / A picture I know so well.” One of the things that made “Strong Persuader” not just a pleasure but a classic was the unreliability of its narrators: the tortured cuckold of “Smoking Gun,” the self-doubting ladies’ man of “Right Next Door (Because of Me).” That’s the case here as well. Why does the narrator of “Worry” feel that passive anxiety is the only option available to him as a loved one descends into a life of ill repute? Musically, Cray remains on firm footing. There are, as always, nods to his forebears—Albert Collins in the slashing, squealing solos, Otis Redding in the forceful vocals—but he’s been do- ing this long enough, and well enough, that he’s mostly just himself. On recent albums, Cray has sometimes fallen victim to the Curse of the Ambitious Composition. “Truce,” the closing track from his 2009 album, This Time, was a jazzy, understated, and borderline soporific five- and-a-half-minute portrait of a fraught relationship. What it lacked is what “Nothin but Love” has in abundance, and that’s forward motion. “Fix This” glides along on a reggae lilt and tasteful piano, until it reaches its chorus, all soul organ and full-throated vocals. “Side Dish” uses food metaphors to sketch out the facts of infidelity (it’s elevated above novelty by superb playing and by the plaintive closing line, “Please take me back”). And even though “I’m Done Cryin’” is nearly nine minutes long and a message song at that—it chronicles the emotional effects of job loss—it’s taut and straightforward, a letter from the economic front.” - The New Yorker “Pop Notes,” September 3 2012 issue The Dallas Morning News catches up with Somebody’s Darling Somebody’s Darling formed in 2007 in Dallas as a hungry band of musicians feeding themselves on a roots rock hybrid soaked in R&B, blues and country. Lead singer Amber Farris, guitarist David Ponder, drummer Nate Wedan, keyboardist Michael Talley and bass- ist Wade Cofer have all worked within a do-it-yourself ethic. That’s particularly true this year when Somebody’s Darling launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for the recording of their second disc, Jank City Shakedown, out Sept. 4, booked a 19-city tour, and hired a Triple A radio promoter. I talk with Ponder, 28, about all of that and more. DMN: There is a soulful keyboard, guitar, bass and drums outro on “Maybe” that speaks volumes about the band’s sound, particularly on the new disc Jank City Shakedown. Add to that Amber’s heart-on-the-sleeve voice and you have the makings of roots rock-R&B- country nirvana. Does the entire group feel passionate about this potent sonic mixture? SD: Yes we do. I’m glad that you caught that. We feel like we are growing into ourselves as writers and performers. It’s absolutely what we wanted to convey. DMN: You recorded Jank City Shakedown in 10 days, after having raised money to make it via Kickstarter. How urgent, how important was it for the band to get this music done and ready for fans to hear? SD: It was absolutely urgent and crucial that we put something new out this year. It has been three years since our last LP came out. We appreciate our friends and fans hanging in there with us so long and we really wanted to give them something new to enjoy.
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