RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 12/11/2019 Alanis Morissette “Reasons I Drink” The first single from Such Pretty Forks In The Road, due 5/1 Nearly 40 adds already including KINK, WXRV, WRLT, KRVB, WXPN, WYEP, KVNA, KPND, WNCS, WFPK, KVYN, WPYA, KYMK, WAPS, WBDB, WCLX, WCNR, WCOO, WDST, WRSI, WWCT, WXPK, WZEW... Major summer tour with Garbage and Liz Phair Already did The Tonight Show 2020 is the 25th anniversarty of Jagged Little Pill Pinegrove “Phase” The first single from Marigold, in stores 1/17 New: KVNA, KRSH, KYMK, WBJB, KCLC, KYSL ON: WRLT, KCSN, Music Choice, WPYA, WTMD, WAPS, KJAC, WZEW, WDST, WCLX... “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 Devon Gilfillian “Unchained” From his debut album Black Hole Rainbow, in stores 1/10 Mediabase 17*, BDS Monitored 15*, Indicator 9*! New: WXRT, KGSR, WKLQ, WMMM ON: KBCO, WRNR, WXRV, WRLT, KCMP, WXPN, KCSN, WFUV, KRVB, WQKL, KXT, WPYA, WXPK, KJAC, KTBG, WFPK, WTMD, WCLZ, WNCS, WERS, WYEP... On tour with Grace Potter in January and February Read the new Garden & Gun feature on page 3 Dan Luke and the Raid “Fool” The first single from their New West debut Out of The Blue, out now New this week: WPYA, KYSL ON: Music Choice, WTMD, WAPS, WFPK, WCLX, WFIV, WCBE, WYCE, KSMF, WFHB Recently 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’) From The Juice, produced by Keb’ Mo’, in stores 1/17 Mediabase 40*, BDS Monitored New & Active, Indicator 21*! New: WMMM, KRSH, WPYA ON: KBCO, WRNR, Music Choice, WRLT, WWCT, WXPN, WFPK, KPND, WCOO, KYMK, WCLX, WDST, KJAC, WYEP, WTMD... “A party jam for our troubled times” - G. Love Extenstive tour starts in January 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 Already on WFPK, WFIV, WYCE, WCLX, WBJB, KRCC, KSLU, KRVM... ‘If You Just Didn’t Do It’: Rolling Stone “Songs You Need To Know” Jesse Malin “Chemical Heart” From Sunset Kids, produced by Lucinda Williams ON: KJAC, WTMD, WDST, WEXT, KNBA, WBJB, WCLX, WFIV, KRVM, WMWV, KRCC “Four stars... a celebration of survival that finds the New York City hardcore troubadour reflecting on life’s precious and fleeting moments.” - Rolling Stone On tour this month, plus more 2020 shows announced 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) Mediabase 36*, BDS Monitored #1 New & Active, Mediabase Alt 43*! New: WAPS, KMTN, KCLC ON: WRLT, KCMP, Music Choice, WXRV, WNCS, WRNR, WPYA, WFUV, WYEP, WERS, KJAC, WCLZ, WCNR, KVNA, KTBG, WRSI, WXCT... 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 29*, BDS Monitored 29*, Indicator #24, Mediabase Alt 32*! New: WXRT, WMMM, WWCT, WPCO 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 Stay With Me: The Reimagined Songs of Jerry Ragovoy, due in 2020 ON: WCLX, WFIV, WEXT, WNCW, KSMF, WYCE, WCBE, KFMG, MSPR, KRVM, KVNF, 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 Chadwick Stokes & The Pintos “Hit The Bell With Your Elbow” The first single from his self-titled third solo album, out now ON: KJAC, WDST, KRSH, WEXT, WCBE, WFIV, WBJB, WCLX, KMTN, KYSL, WMVY, KNBA, KRML, WJCU, WNCW, KVYN, KLRR, KBAC, WFHB... Chad is also the frontman for Dispatch Tour: 12/11 Kalamazoo, 12/13 Chicago, 12/14 St. Louis, 12/15 Nashville, 12/21 Boston, 1/9 Solana Beach, 1/10 Los Angeles, 1/11 Berkeley... Beth Hart “Bad Woman Blues” The first single from War In My Mind, out now BDS Indicator #27, JBE Tracks #37, Public #29! 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, Green Day) Chelsea Cutler & Jeremy Zucker “You Were Good To Me” From their ep brent, out now ON: Music Choice, WZEW, WCOO, KRSH, WCLX, WFIV, KCLC, WAPS, KYMK, WYCE, WCBE, KRCC Played on The TODAY Show last month This is a streaming monster, with over 70 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 White Reaper “Might Be Right” From their Elektra debut You Deserve Love, out now Mediabase 5*, BDS Monitored 4*, Indicator 5*, JBE Tracks 4*, Mediabase Alt 7*! New: KKAL 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 Big Thief “Not” The first single from Two Hands, out now JBE Public 25*! New: WBJB, KRML ON: KCMP, WFUV, KCSN, KUTX, WTMD, WFPK, WAPS, WYEP, WYMS, KEXP, Music Choice, KVOQ, WFIV, WCBE, WYCE, WRSI, WCLX, KCLC, WKZE... “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 Nominee! Paste picks Big Thief and Vampire Weekend among the best of 2019 BIG THIEF - TWO HANDS (Top 50 Rank: #4): “Big Thief has amassed a large and devoted fanbase the old-fashioned way: by releasing four astonishingly good albums in just three-and-a-half years, by touring relentlessly and seemingly without rest, by Instagramming a lot of photos of themselves grinning and embracing each other in various bucolic settings. In 2019, much of Big Thief ’s ethos feels like a throwback to the LP era: the prolific output (think Creedence circa 1969-1970), the album-stream-as-vinyl-sides, the band’s creative intimacy and affinity for recording live with minimal overdubs. Which is appropriate, since this band’s razor-sharp songwriting has always felt somewhat adrift in time, belonging as much to the 1970s or early 2000s as it does to the present. Two Hands does not dramatically depart from the mesmerizing folk-rock fusion of U.F.O.F., but its best moments emphasize the band’s gnarled electric energy, particularly on the career highlight “Not.” When an artist releases two studio albums in one year, it’s customary for critics to grumble about hubris, usually accompanied by the suggestion that the two separate releases should have been whittled down into one. Often—as with Justin Timber- lake’s The 20/20 Experience and its turgid sequel—this charge is accurate. With Big Thief, it won’t be. Both records stand as outstanding and individual statements from a band operating at some rare creative peak. Both records deserve to exist, and we’re fortunate that they do.”

VAMPIRE WEEKEND - FATHER OF THE BRIDE (Top 50 Rank: #20): “If such a decree is not already at large, I hereby declare Father of the Bride the official album of summer 2019. If you’re still skeptical, just listen to it outside, maybe while eating a popsicle. Let Danielle Haim and a choir of children sing you down the aisle on “Hold You Now;” let the bendy “Bambina” rock you into a summer stupor. Let it be easy. It’s light without being too flighty, thoughtful but not esoteric and chock full of tiny little musical treasures. Peel back what some have perceived to be a lyrical disaster, and Vampire Weekend’s fourth full-length is an album of rewarding moments and juicy samples. A record that’s roughly five songs too long and as many choruses too cheesy may not sound like the most enticing listen, but Ezra Koenig expertly spins even the shabbiest couplets into nuance—and he does it to the tune of pure sunshine. He adopted a passion for the Grateful Dead, intensified one for character studies and swapped boat shoes for Birkenstocks, and the result here is the rare album that not only works as picnic music but also makes for a fine conversation topic. Vampire Weekend proved their talent with a trio of excellent albums in 2008-2013. With this comeback, Koenig proves they’re not going anywhere.” - Paste Magazine “The Top 50 Albums of 2019”, December 2 2019 In your inbox now for official adds on 1/13: Fruition “Dawn” NME calls Alanis Morissette “as vital as ever” “Alanis Morissette has been spilling her trauma in her music since long before that became a way of securing neat, PR-able hooks or a path to market yourself as a “relatable” artist, even if your bank account and distance from the real world would beg to differ. ‘Jagged Little Pill’, her international debut album which turns 25 next year, covered sexual abuse, the villainisation of sexually active young women, and the everyday gripes of someone in young adulthood. She took the idea of the angry young woman – previously confined to scenes like riot grrrl and grunge – into the mainstream and won five Grammys and sold millions of records despite attempts at misogynistic pigeonholing. ‘Reasons I Drink’, the first track from her ninth studio album ‘Such Pretty Forks In The Road’ (due out May 1, 2020), might not fizz with exactly the same visceral anger as on that seminal record, but there’s still an urgency and rawness to Morissette. Similarly, she’s still mining her life’s experiences, using her insight into addiction to explain the comfort the very things that are bad for you can bring: “Nothing can give reprieve like they do/Nothing can give a break for this soldier like they do.” Morissette has previously been open about her struggles with an eating disorder and has described alcohol as a “second- ary addiction”. It’s these battles that she revisits in both the song’s title and its later lyric: “Here are the reasons I eat/Rea- sons I feel everything so deeply when I’m not medicated.” On a thumping chorus driven by bright piano, she gets to the very heart of addiction itself. “I feel such rapture and my comfort is so strong,” she cries. “One more hit/It feels so helpful in my need for respite.” Later, she acknowledges both the reliance that keeps addicts tied to their vices and the people in their lives that become collateral damage because of them. Musically, ’Reasons I Drink’ might feel safer than the searing angst of ‘Jagged Little Pill’, but she manages to end every- thing with a kiss-off that both proves that she’s far from out of touch just yet and avoids sounding like your mum trying to keep up with modern slang. “One more rip,” she hollers. “I go from one lilypad to another to stay lit.” After decades in the game, Morissette is still as vital as ever.” - NME, December 2 2019 Garden & Gun catches up with Devon Gilfillian “During a recent visit to Los Angeles, Devon Gilfillian had a little time to kill before he was due in the studio. So his manager arranged a last-minute songwriting session at the home of Jonas Myrin, a Swedish artist best known for his work in the Christian music world. He soon arrived at Myrin’s white-walled Hollywood mansion, but the session stalled. “We were trying to write something with an upbeat dance tempo, and it wasn’t working,” Gilfillian says. “Jonas is like a therapist, so we ended up just talking about life for four hours.” The twenty-nine-year-old had ample reason to reflect. In 2018, the van carrying him, his band, and his manager was struck head-on by a drunk driver on a curvy road outside Athens, Georgia. Miraculously, everyone escaped without major injuries. But it left Gilfillian shaken, and Myrin pushed him to confront those feelings. The result is “Stranger,” a dreamy, gospel-tinged number that serves as the benediction to the lush, expansive soul of his debut album, Black Hole Rainbow. “It’s about a person who comes into your life to keep you safe, whether that be an angel or something else,” Gilfillian says of the song. He asked his father, Nelson—who moonlights as a wedding singer in Gilfillian’s native Philadelphia—to sing backup on the track. “He was emotional when I sent him the lyrics,” Gilfillian recalls. “But there was such joy in creating with my dad because I had never done that.” All good wedding singers need a thick song catalogue, lest they irk a couple who want to hear “Brown Eyed Girl” and “Brick House.” The se- nior Gilfillian’s chops have certainly rubbed off on his son. Growing up on a steady diet of Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield, he started playing guitar at fourteen when his father, as he describes it, “slapped me upside the head with Jimi Hendrix.” After graduating from Pennsylvania’s West Chester University with a degree in psychology, Gilfillian relocated to Nashville in 2013, eventually meeting his band members while play- ing gigs around town. The buzz worked its way through the East Nashville clubs to the staid compounds on Music Row, and for the past two years, Gilfillian has been the go-to opener for acts across the musical spectrum, from Brothers Osborne to Mavis Staples to Trombone Shorty. Those eclectic experiences shine through on Black Hole Rainbow, which blends old-school soul, funk, bluesy guitar, and a few other twists. Using vintage gear, Gilfillian and producer Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes, Kacey Musgraves) recorded instrumental versions of each song on the album to analog tape. Everett then had the material pressed onto vinyl and created digital files of the vinyl recordings, which he and Gilfillian could then fiddle around with. If you listen closely, you can hear the vinyl’s crackle and pop. “We were sampling ourselves,” Gilfillian says, laughing. “But it was worth it. I wanted to use every sound imaginable to dig the old soul out of the ground and send it to Mars.” The space travel yields a wash of psychedelic soul with hazy, layered vocals and hypnotic rhythms. Gilfillian is equally deft at peeling off blues licks in the swirling “Full Disclosure,” crooning sweetly on the slow jam “Lonely,” and grooving to the mesmerizing percussion of “Get Out and Get It,” inspired by the Afrobeat sounds he heard during a visit to South Africa. There’s a charming earnestness to Gilfillian. He speaks of wanting to play in front of every type of music fan and welcoming all comers with open arms and a judgment-free vibe, sounding like something of a millennial hippie. “I’ll take that,” he says with a chuckle. “I don’t care if you’re young or old, black or white, brown, yellow, or orange. I’m pushing the sound forward and coming to play for you.” - Garden & Gun, December 2019 RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 12/11/2019