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RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 2/26/2020 Teddy Thompson “Heartbreaker Please” The title-track first single from his new album, out 5/8 Early: KRSH, KOZT, WUMB, WFIV, WMWV, WUKY, WDVX, WHRV “Extracted from the end of a relationship, Heartbreaker Please also references Thompson’s conflicted feelings about the city he loves—and hates. “I feel like all these years here have made me a New Yorker, but 20 years in New York can weigh you down,” he says. “There’s nowhere like it, but it can be exhausting.” - American Mihali “Heart Song” feat. Citizen Cope The first single from Breathe and Let Go, out this Friday Early adds at WCLX, WFIV and WUKY Mihali is also the front- man for well-known New England band Twiddle Twiddle will be opening six of Vampire Weekend’s summer shows Mihali dates: (Band) 3/31 NYC, 4/1 Hudson Falls NY, 4/2 Fairfield CT, 4/3 , 4/4 Burlington, (Solo) 4/9 Pokey LaFarge “End Of My Rope” The first single from Rock Bottom Rhapsody, out 4/10 New: WAPS, KNBA, WCBE Early: WFPK, KJAC, XM Loft, WEXT, KPIG, WFIV, WKZE, WMVY, KSUT, WYCE, KHUM, WDVX and more Playing SXSW next month and kicking off a run of US tour dates in early May “LaFarge’s first new album in over three years... brings folk music and rock ‘n’ roll together in a way that feels fresh.” - Paste Lapsley “Womxn” The first single from Through Water, in stores 3/20 New: WPYA ON: WRLT, Music Choice, WFPK, KVOQ, WCNR, WCLX, KRML, WFIV With Lapsley as the major producer and songwriter, the ten songs on the album reflect her newfound confidence, clarity and self-awareness as an artist, documenting a wealth of personal experiences and coming-of-age stories set against a thematic backdrop of water, climate, weather and the elements. 070 Shake “Guilty Conscience” The first single from Modus Vivendi, out now Pronounced as “Oh-Seven-Oh Shake” New: WCBE ON: WPYA, WWCT, KEXP, WCLX, KVYN, WYCE, WUTC 070 references the first three numbers of the zip code in New Jersey that she hails from Toured last year with The 1975 On tour now, playing 400-500 capacity rooms, almost all sold out in advance Top 15 Spotify Viral Chart - over 4MM streams Big Thief “Shoulders” The second single from Two Hands, out now New: WFIV, WCLX ON: WFUV, WYEP, WFPK, Music Choice Played on Kimmel Major summer US tour dates announced as well as an appearance at this year’s upcoming “This stands as a crowning achievement, the perfect record to close out a tumultuous decade...” - Consequence of Sound ZZ Ward “Break Her Heart” The first single from her upcoming album Mediabase 43* New: KRVB, KSPN, WVMP ON: KINK, KGSR, WMMM, Music Choice, WRLT, KCSN, WPYA, WWCT, WKLQ, WCLZ, WAPS, KVNA... Playing GMA 3/27 On the song: “No matter how much you try to change for some- one else...... you can’t....you can only be what you are, and if they don’t see the beauty in that than F***em’!!!” Headlining tour going on now Grace Potter “Back To Me” (feat. Lucius) The new single from Daylight Mediabase 35*, BDS Monitored Debut 37*, Indicator 19*! New: KCSN, KRML, WCLX ON: WXRV, WXPN, WFUV, Music Choice, WPYA, KXT, WFPK, WNCS, WEHM, WERS, WCNR, WAPS, KVNA, WCLZ... Second leg of her headlining tour kicking off “She has been heralded as one of the greatest living vocalists in rock music, and that point remains arguable on Daylight” - Paste Robbie Robertson “Once Were Brothers” The new single from Sinematic This is also the title song for the Once Were Brothers documentary about The Band, executive produced by Martin Scorsese and hitting theatres this Friday ON: WEXT, WCLX, WFIV, WMVY, KPIG, WKZE, KOZT, KSUT, KUWR The film blends rare archival footage and interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Scorsese and more Katie Pruitt “Expectations” The title track single from her Rounder release, out now New: Music Choice, KCLC, KUWR ON: WRLT, WXPN, WPYA, KJAC, WTMD, WCNR, WDST, KVYN, WEXT, WKZE, KSMF, WCBE, WCLX, WFIV, WUIN, WXCT, KBAC, WZEW... NPR Slingshot: 20 Artists To Watch, : 10 Artists You Need To Know “Possesses a soaring, nuanced and expressive voice and writes with devastating honesty” -NPR Pearl Jam “Dance Of The Clairvoyants” The first single from Gigaton, in stores 3/27 90+ stations on board - Mediabase panel closed out! New: KOIT Mediabase 4*, BDS Monitored 4*, Indicator 2*, JBE Public #4! Multiple videos released - check out my site This is their first studio album since their Grammy-winning Lightning Bolt Their US tour dates kick off in late March Pete Yorn “I Wanna Be The One” The follow up to the top 5 hit “Calm Down” from his album Caretakers Mediabase 37*, BDS Monitored New & Active, Indicator #29! ON: KINK, KGSR, WRNR, WRLT, WPYA, Music Choice, WZEW, WAPS, WWCT, KYMK, WCOO, WCLX, KVYN, KRSH, KJAC, KVOQ, WNRN, WTMD, KMTN, WVMP, KSPN, KRML... Cool lyric video and interview premiered on Space.com Kaleo “I Want More” The first AAA single from their forthcoming album Mediabase 16*, BDS Monitored 20*, Indicator 12*! New: WWCT, WTMD ON: SiriusXM Spectrum, KBCO, KGSR, KINK, WXRV, KCMP, WRLT, KRVB, Music Choice, KXT, WYEP, WCLZ, WNCS, KVNA, WPYA, KPND, WFPK, KJAC, KTBG... Playing in Boston, Philadelphia and NYC starting in late May, then Red Rocks in July “Oh Yeah” The new single from Father Of All..., out now Mediabase 28*, BDS Monitored 27*, Indicator 24*! New: WQKL ON: KGSR, WRNR, WXRV, WMMM, KCMP, KRVB, WXPK, KCSN, WFPK, WWCT, WNCS, WXCT, KPND, WZEW, WKLQ, WAPS, KVNA, WEHM, WCNR... Massive press around the release included Ellen, The Late Late Show and GMA #1 Billboard album sales, #4 on the Top 200! Big summer tour Dustbowl Revival “Dreaming” The first single from Is It You, Is It Me, out now New: WFPK, WVMP, WUSM ON: WRLT, KCSN, Music Choice, WRSI, KRSH, WCLX, KYSL, WCLY, WKZE, KNBA, KVYN, KMTN, WEXT, WCBE, KPIG... “After ten years of touring together and amassing a passionate and loyal following worldwide, Dustbowl Revival embarks on a new journey... thus proving that great bands never stop evolving as they simply refuse to stand still.” - American Songwriter On tour through March Hollow Coves “Anew” The first single from Moments, out now New: KCLC, WFHB ON: WJCU, WYCE, WCBE, KMMS, WFIV, KBAC, KSMF, WCLX, KROK, KRCC, KVNF, WBSD, KUWR, MSPR “The duo reflect on little nostalgic moments, backed by stunning harmonies and acoustic guitars and piano” - Billboard “Hollow Coves seems to tap into something timeless” - Clash Wrapping up their US dates this week: 2/27 Portland, 2/28 Seattle Fruition “Dawn” The first single from Broken At The Break Of Day, out now! BDS Monitored #2 New & Active, Indicator #20, JBE Public #24! ON: WRNR, WRLT, WXPN, WTMD, KCSN, WPYA, Music Choice, WFPK, KTBG, KJAC, WYEP, WNRN, WRSI, WEHM, WDST, WCNR, WAPS, KPND, WBDB, KVNA... “A cascade of harmonies...feels like a 21st-century soft-rock treasure.” - NPR Music More tour dates in March “Reasons I Drink” The first single from Such Pretty Forks In The Road, out 5/1 Mediabase 10*, BDS Monitored 8*, Indicator #4, JBE Public #17 Monitored panel almost closed out Mediabase Hot AC 37*! Billboard Women In Music “ICON” recipient! Major summer tour announced with Garbage and Liz Phair Sold out already: LA, Nashville, Portland, Atlanta, Washington DC, and more Pinegrove “Phase” The first single from Marigold, out now Mediabase #40, BDS Indicator #35, JBE Public #47! ON: WXRV, WRLT, WFUV, Music Choice, KCSN, KRVB, WPYA, WTMD, WFPK, KTBG, WNCS, WCLZ, KEXP, WRSI, WCNR, WEHM, WAPS, WDST, KJAC, KVYN... “Pinegrove continues to make introspective and energetic songs... a song about gratitude in the face of chaos.” - NPR National tour this month Dan Luke and the Raid “Fool” Devon Gilfillian “Unchained” The first single from Out of The Blue, out now Mediabase Alternative 24*! From his debut album Black Hole Rainbow, out now Mediabase #13, BDS ON: Music Choice, WTMD, WPYA, WAPS, WFPK, KJAC, WCLX, WWCT, WZEW, KVYN, WFIV, Monitored #9, Indicator #6 Acoustic version and great TV coming next week WYCE, WCBE, KYSL, KROK... Toured with Starcrawler then Seratones, new dates announced Just wrapped up his two month national tour opening for Grace Potter Vampire Weekend “Sunflower” (feat. Steve Lacy) Saint Motel “Van Horn” The third single from Father Of The Bride Winners of this year’s Grammy for The first single from The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Pt. 1, out now Best Alternative Album! Mediabase #29, BDS Monitored #39, Indicator #40 Mediabase #24, BDS Monitored #29, Indicator #28, Mediabase Alt 16*! Highly anticipated tour coming up One of the best reviewed albums of 2019 On tour now: 2/27 , 2/28 Milwaukee, 2/29 Minneapolis, 3/3 Seattle... Billboard talks about Teddy Thompson’s “Heartbreaker Please” video “It’s been 20 years since Teddy Thompson, son of Richard and Linda Thompson, released his first solo album. And he’s celebrating not with retrospect but by moving forward with a new album, Heartbreaker Please, whose title track video is premiering exclusively on Bill- board today (Feb. 19). “It’s shocking -- where does the time go?” Thompson tells Billboard with a laugh. “The one thing you can’t do anything about is the passage of time, you know? I think I’m more confident in who I am now. I feel -- stronger, I guess, is the world that comes to mind. I know how to do what I do, and I know how to be myself when I’m doing it.” But the New York- based Thompson acknowledges that he still grapples with a family trait of perfectionism that sometimes skews his own view of his work. “I’m somebody who as soon as I finish what I’m doing, I hate it and wish I had done it differently,” he says. “Some people misinterpret that word [perfectionism] to feel like you do everything personally. It’s that you want to do everything perfectly and that doesn’t exist, so you’re constantly disappointed by yourself and frustrated and want to go back and change it. That’s how I feel about anything. “But I will say that I’ve gotten to a stage now where if I hear my first record or second record, I’m no longer disgusted by it. I see that person I was then, and I’m more compassionate. Instead of going ‘Ech!’ I go, ‘Aw, I’m looking at myself as a kid,’ and that’s sweet.” Heartbreaker Please, due out this spring, presents a decidedly adult Thompson dealing with decidedly adult issues -- in this case a romantic breakup that informs many of the album’s 10 tracks. But that wasn’t by design, he claims. “I don’t sit down and say, ‘OK, I broke up with somebody. I don’t like this person anymore. I’m going to sit down and write a song about them,’” Thompson explains. “I more let it happen. I have little ideas, a tune and a title maybe, and then I sit down and go ‘What does that mean? What am I trying to say here?’ And there were definitely a few songs on this record, consciously or unconsciously, where I was writing about heartbreak and love and loss -- the same things most people write about.” As for the album’s relatively buoyant, often soulful musical tone, however, Thompson says, “I’m aware my own tendency is to write the sad songs, so I tried here and there to not write sad music to go with it, to give it some kind of beat, something more uplifting, up- tempo, at least.” The “Heartbreaker Please” song and its video -- which juxtaposes Thompson playing alone on a stage with a woman dancing as she lis- tens to a record in her apartment -- puts a different kind of spin on his usual approach, too. “Usually, in my songs, I’m the one doing the heartbreaking, and this time somebody else did it to me,” Thompson explains. “We thought the video would be interesting to have two different stories -- me singing the song and being my usual heartbroken self and then have the love interest be not quite so heartbroken.” Thompson will be playing some solo acoustic shows in New York during March and will be in his native U.K. during much of the spring, including opening dates for John Grant. He’s hoping to perform in North America during the fall, though dates have not yet been announced.” - Billboard, 2/19/2020 Kerrang! is excited about Green Day’s Father Of All... “Green Day had one idea for what to do next: “Let’s make a mess.” These were the four words uttered by , and Tré Cool as they stepped into their rehearsal room to begin work on this, the fol- low-up to 2016’s . It was a bold mind-set, all things considered. Not only was that album labelled a musical return to form after the sprawling triple-whammy of ¡UNO!, ¡DOS!, ¡TRE!, it was also a colossal success, combining Green Day’s now-signature formula of heartfelt, radio-ready bangers with a post- worldview. It would have been a blueprint worth repeating on Father Of All…. Instead, the Oakland trio have scrapped all that in favour of something altogether more playful, mischievous, and – indeed – messy. You’ll already have sensed this if you’ve heard the lead single and title-track, of course. From the excessive handclaps and Billie Joe’s Prince-inspired falsettos, it’s a sign of what’s to come as it opens up the most surprising and potentially divisive Green Day album ever. It’s the shortest release of their career to date, clocking in at just 26 minutes, but it also finds them taking on and dishing out more musical ideas and genres than ever before. On paper, it kind of sounds like a disaster. On record, though, Green Day have never relished a challenge more. Most crucially of all, Father Of All… is full of attitude. Billie Joe has cited hip-hop icon Kendrick Lamar as an inspiration this time around, the frontman wanting to emulate the HUMBLE. singer’s raw, real approach to storytelling. And as he confesses, ‘I wanna drink all the poison in the water / I wanna choke like a dog that’s on a collar,’ on Sugar Youth and yelps a rather, er, ballsy, ‘You can take a walk or you can suck my cock,’ on Take The Money And Crawl, it’s clear he’s holding nothing back here. More often than not, his lyrics adopt a dark, autobiographical viewpoint, harking back to the days of 1994 breakthrough LP and its hard-and-fast 1995 follow- up, Insomniac. In fact, other than the album’s suggestive title, there’s nothing overtly political to be found across these 10 tracks, as the frontman instead focusses on feeling out of control within his own body, as well as observing the chaos of life around him (“I draw no inspiration from the President of the United States,” Billie Joe told Kerrang! last year. “Trump gives me diarrhoea, you know?”). And it’s when Green Day sound the most unhinged that they’re at their best. The fast-paced chorus of the aforementioned Sugar Youth and the explosive Stab You In The Heart are instant highlights, boasting an intoxicating and inescapable energy amongst the riffs. But this is by no means straightforward rock’n’roll, as the band dabble in soul and Motown (Stab You In The Heart) and glam (Oh Yeah!), amongst the usual garage-rock and punk (Fire, Ready, Aim). There are vintage Billie Joe melodies littered throughout, with the sweet Meet Me On The Roof and closing track Graffitia showcasing this always effortless, almost off-the-cuff knack for his craft. In many ways, Green Day have thrown out the rulebook on a sound they’ve spent more than three decades perfecting. They’ve often proven themselves to be an unpredictable bunch by nature (a fact that’s not quite as celebrated as it should be), and Father Of All… is just another sign of a band who have always done things their way refusing to do what’s expected of them. And it’s a hella mega good time from start to finish. Rating: 4/5” - Kerrang!, 2/5/2020 Coming up: 3/9: G. Love “Diggin’ Roots”... 3/23: The Grahams “Kids Like Us”... RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 2/26/2020