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RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 6/26/2013 Satellite “Say The Words” Going for official adds on Monday! Added early at WXRV, KRSH, WBJB and WFIV! Single available on PlayMPE now Over 1.5 million view for the video already “This is a band that makes me love music” – Karoline Kramer Gould/ WJCU On tour with Lenka: 7/19 Boston, 7/21 Arlington VA, 7/22 Philadelphia, 7/25 Pontiac MI, 7/26 Chicago Playing Boulder Robert Randolph & The Family Band “Born Again” BDS Most Added! First week: WRLT, WDST, WJCU, WKZE, KMTN, KNBA, WCBE, KFMU, KSPN, KROK, KSMT, KRCL... Early: WXPK, KCSN, WFUV, WXPN, WBJB, WMVY, WMWV, KOZT, KLRR, WFIV, KYSL, WOCM, WUIN, WEXT... Lickety Split in stores July 16 Letterman August 27 NPR Morning Edition Live with Kelly & Michael July 30 Tour this summer Gregory Alan Isakov “Living Proof” The first single from The Weatherman, in stores July 9 Full cd on your desk, single on PlayMPE now Summer tour First week: KCLC, WFIV, WNRN, WCBE, WYCE, KRCL, KDBB, KAXE, KDEC Early: KUNC, KSUT, WUMB, KFMG, MSPR, KSMF “Combines the rootsy influence of Bruce Springsteen with the sharply worded insight of Leonard Cohen” - American Songwriter Ivan & Alyosha “Be Your Man” Sigur Ros “Isjaki” BDS Most Added! New: WFUV, KBAC, KHUM, KRML, WTMD, KFMU, New: WYEP, KDHX, WNRN, KRCC, KAXE, KSLU Kveikur in stores now KSPN Early: WRLT, WFPK, KSMT, DMX, Music Choice, WFIV, WYEP... Lyric video on our site North American tour in Sept/Oct Already on: On tour this summer All The Times We Had in stores now Single on PlayMPE WFUV, KEXP, KCRW, WYCE, WCBE, KVNF, WHRV, KDNK, WFIT, WYSO Tom Odell “Another Love” Truth & Salvage Co. “Appalachian Hilltop” The first single from his Songs From Another Love ep, available now The first single from their sophomore album Pick Me Up, in stores July 23 New: KPND, WYEP, WOCM, KSUT, KRVM ON: WRLT, WZEW, WCOO, KRSH, New: WWNU, WVMP ON: WCOO, WNKU, WBJB, WEXT, WCBE, WFIV, WOCM, WWCT, KCSN, WFUV. KCRW, WEHM, WFIV, KCLC, WAPS... Playing in Boulder KMTN, WUIN, KDTR, WNTI, KFMG On tour and in Boulder this summer The Lone Bellow “Bleeding Out” ZZ Ward “365 Days” BDS Monitored 28*! Indicator 20*! FMQB Public 12*! On tour now Mediabase Top 20! BDS Indicator Debut 29*! ON: KGSR, WMMM, WRNR, New: KBCO, WCOO, WMVY, WOCM... ON: WXRV, SiriusXM Spectrum, WCLZ, KRVB, Sirius Spectrum, KPRI, WRLT, WNCS, KTHX, KCSN, WCLZ, WZEW, WNCS, WRLT, KRVB, WXPK, KTHX, KPND, WFUV, KCSN, WXPN... Playing Boulder! KPND, WCOO, KCKC, KRSH, WAPS, WVOD... Fall tour dates announced too Steve Earle & The Dukes (and Duchesses) “21st Century Blues” Matt Nathanson “Mission Bells” New: WMVY, KSPN, KFMU ON: WXRT, KRSH, KPND, KCSN, KTBG, WNKU, Mediabase Top 10! Indicator 15*! New: WXPK ON: Sirius Spectrum, KFOG, WYCE, KNBA, WNCW, WMWV, WVMP, KTAO, WYEP, WBJB, WCBE, KINK, KTCZ, KBCO, KGSR, WTTS, CIDR, WMMM, WXRV, WNCS, KRVB, WJCU, WKZE, WFIV, DMX... Terrific press More tour dates this summer KPRI, WRLT, WQKL, WCLZ, KCKC... In stores 7/16 Confirmed for Leno July 9 David Ford “Pour A Little Poison” Jimmy Eat World “I Will Steal You Back” New: KAXE Already on: KCSN, SiriusXM Loft, WFPK, WEXT, KTBG, WFIV, KRML, Already on: CIDR, WXPK, WZEW, KPND, WLCE, Music Choice, KFMU, KSPN, WVMP, WOCM, WCBE, WBJB, WFIT, WUMB, WNRN, WNTI, Acoustic Cafe... WJCU, KROK, KSKI, WFIV, WOCM, KCLC, WVOD, KYSL... Video online now Just finished a run of US dates Fantastic press - see the CNN piece on our site Building at Alt/Modern too Tour begins this week In stores now Joseph Arthur “Saint of Impossible Causes” The Boxer Rebellion “Diamonds” FMQB Public #16! New: WRSI, WYSO, KXCI ON: WFUV, WXPN, KEXP, WTMD, FMQB Tracks 38*! New: WYEP ON: KINK, WXRV, WXPK, WRLT, KCSN, KXT, KCSN, WFPK, SiriusXM Loft, WYEP, KTBG, WFIV, WBJB, WNKU, WEXT, WCBE, SiriusXM Loft, KRSH, KPND, WZEW, WTMD, KCRW, KBAC, KSMT, WBJB, WYCE, KROK, WMWV, WYMS... Just played on Leno, Letterman July 9 WFIV, WNRN... Just finished their US tour dates See the Leno video on our site San Cisco “Awkward” Vampire Weekend “Diane Young” “San Cisco specializes in songs you can’t get out of your head.” - NPR BDS Indicator #7! FMQB Public 1* again! Their first Top 10 at Alt too! Already on: KPND, KCMP, WTMD, WYMS, KHUM, WAPS, WVOD, KYSL, KSKI, ON: WXRT, KINK, WRNR, WRLT, WXPK, WCLZ, WQKL, KPND, WXPN, KUTX, KCMP, WNRN, KFMU, KSPN, WFIV, KCLC, KSMT... Full album in stores 7/16 WFUV, KXT, KCSN, WLCE, WNKU, WVOD, KEXP... Massive sales! World tour now ZZ Ward just keeps on adding US tour dates 8/31 Seattle, WA 9/14 Denver, CO 9/28 Washington, DC 9/2 Portland, OR 9/16 Austin, TX 9/30 New York, NY 9/4 San Francisco, CA 9/17 Dallas, TX 10/1 Philadelphia, PA 9/6 Los Angeles, CA 9/18 Houston, TX 10/2 Boston, MA 9/7 Anaheim, CA 9/20 Atlanta, GA 10/4 Cleveland, OH 9/8 San Diego, CA 9/21 Columbia, MO 10/6 Detroit, MI 9/10 Tucson, AZ 9/23 Ft. Lauderdale, FL 10/8 Indianapolis, IN 9/11 Phoenix, AZ 9/24 Orlando, FL 10/14 St. Louis, MO 9/13 Telluride, CO 9/27 Charlotte, NC 10/15 Chicago, IL Paste Magazine digs into the new Sigur Ros album “Sigur Rós has long provided a sort of hymnal template for the secular masses. Those without spirituality or religion latch on to their music as much as believers for the transcendental window it seems to open. Their droning guitars seem to contain entire mythologies, Jónsi’s voice and uninter- pretable lyrics as sort of tongues speaking bent on colonizing traditional experience with wonder. It’s not too far-fetched to think a Sigur Rós song would be playing as our global anthem should the world ever truly attain peace and be put to rights. Which makes their latest, Kveikur, all the more interesting. The band so long associated with bringing heavenly, resurrecting sounds to this terres- trial plane have now put out a record that sounds like a crushing and beautiful apocalypse. This is the first time Sigur Rós has come out with new material only a year since their previous release. 1999’s Ágætis byrjun was as icy, innocent and navy blue in sound as its fetus-graced cover suggested. Three years later came the ambient ( ), which seemed to capture an entire winter’s gentle snowfall within the grasp of its parentheses. Cut forward from 2002 to 2005 and you have the voyaging, inspirational Takk… Another three years after that brought about the less impressive but still masterful Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust. Last year’s Valtari was more of the art they’d perfected since 1994, an 18-year-old’s senior year of sorts. Around 18, things seemed to be moving smooth, easy and comfortable for the band. But ask any 19-year-old, and you’ll know that the empty promises of senior year’s completed comforts are dashed by the newness of freshman year at college. At 19, the band’s released Kveikur, and it’s their most aggressive, new and expansive record in years. From 2012 to 2013, Sigur Rós lost their long-term keyboardist but gained a new sense of vigor. Kveikur is the work of Jónsi Birgisson on vocals and guitar, Georg Hólm on bass and Orri Dýrason on drums. From the first track “Brennisteinn,” this trio makes it abundantly clear how loud and proud a group of three can be. At first there is the crackle and mystery customary of any Sigur Rós album, but then comes something startling. The bass slaps loudly as Jónsi’s guitar ascends like an F-16 into the sky. Gone for now are the soundtracks for making snow angels the band delivered with grace in the past. Kveikur starts with an outright blizzard, and it’s the most frightening, jar- ring and impressive track they’ve released in some time. It’s not to say Sigur Rós ever ceased being innovative. Indeed, if any band can lay claim to always trafficking in creative refurbishment, it’s these Icelanders. But the bands that are the most impressive are always those whose shifts in sound still contain that indelible finger- print, that single snowflake falling that indicates the album is theirs and theirs alone. Kveikur is still stamped with all the characteristics which have made the band so appreciated and inspiring in the past, but now with a new sense of angsty vigor. “Hrafntinna” continues some of the fierceness from the first track, complete with rampant, industrial clanging but already things are slowing down. From “Ísjaki” to “Stormur,” we’re in more familiar territory—slightly more subdued and comforting, but it still sounds like the paradise they’ve created with their last records after Armageddon. Past palaces of ice have been leveled and listeners are left with the craggy icebergs to climb and make sense of. There’s still a beauty to it all, but it remains different to the kind we’re used to them exposing. Title track “Kveikur” reawakens the beast first summoned by “Brennisteinn” for another sort of Ragnarok. Where their past magnifi- cence seemed largely natural and fluid, here it’s mechanical and chugging. “Rafstraumur” has all the trappings of both their old and new styles. They’ve long specialized in melodic cacophony, and here they’ve really got it hook, line and sinker. It’s the track most suggestive of another, better world out there crashing into our own.