RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 2/19/2014 The Both (Aimee Mann & Ted Leo) “Milwaukee” Going for adds on Monday! “The project places the talents of the two artists in perfect harmony...” - LA Times Added early at WFUV, KCSN, WYMS, KUTX, SiriusXM Loft, WYEP, WTMD, WBJB, WMVY, KUNC, WFIV... Just announced as performers at the NON-COMMvention! Self titled album in stores April 15 On PlayMPE now Tour dates begin April 24 “Honestly, I feel like for the first time, I’m part of a rock band” - Aimee Mann Wendy Colonna “Dirty Things” The first single from Nectar Full cd on your desk now, single available on PlayMPE Early: KBAC, WFIV, KSUT, KSLU “Soulful tunes of innocent sin... it’s a collection of songs that has several lives to live.” - Houston Music Review Mentioned by the Austin American-Statesman, the Austin Chronicle and more on their Top Albums of 2013 lists On tour: 2/21 Salt Lake City, 2/27-3/1 San Francisco, 3/26 Memphis, 3/28 Knoxville, 3/29 Asheville... Playing SXSW The Hold Steady “Spinners” FMQB Tracks 28*, Public 22* after one official week! Over 50 stations on board already! First week: KINK, WZEW, WEZZ, WJCU, KRML, KSKI, WVOD, KNBA, Music Choice... Early: KCMP, WXPN, WFUV, KCSN, WYEP, KUTX, WFPK, WNKU, WTMD, KXT, WDST... Full tour starts in April Playing Sunset Sessions this week and the NON-COMMvention Teeth Dreams in stores 3/25 This is the first release on the Washington Square label through Razor & Tie Produced by Nick Raskulinecz Bastille “Bad Blood” Matt Andersen “I Lost My Way” Mediabase 34*, BDS New & Active, Indicator 9*! Sold out tour From Weightless, produced by Steve Berlin New: WOCM, KSLU New: KPND, WWCT, WCOO, WWNU, WMSR... ON: KBCO, WXRV, WXPK, KRVB, Already on: WJCU, WCBE, KFMU, KSPN, WFIV, WUKY, KRCL WCLZ, WZEW, WEZZ, WYEP, KXT, WYMS, WCNR... MTV 2014 Artist To Watch “Entertainer of the Year” and “Best Acoustic Artist” titles at Canada’s BRIT Awards noms: British Breakthrough Act, Group, Single and Album of the Year Mape Blues Awards US tour run coming in April and May Wild Child “Crazy Bird” Jamestown Revival “California (Cast Iron Soul)” From The Runaround, produced by Ben Kweller on his Noise Company imprint BDS Indicator Debut 28*! FMQB Public 37*! New: KPND, WZEW, KRCC... New: KDEC ON: KUTX, WEHM, KSMT, KFMU, KSPN, KRML, WCBE, KUNC... ON: KINK, WWCT, KRSH, SiriusXM Loft, KCSN, KCRW, WBJB, WEHM, Music Choice... Reached#1 at Alternative Specialty already and #1 on HypeMachine Did Conan and KCRW’s MBE On tour now with Wild Feathers and Saints of Valory ZZ Ward “Last Love Song” Graham Colton “Hands Untied” BDS New & Active, Mediabase 32*! New: WXRV, WMSR, KSLU ON: WMMM, The first single from Lonely Ones, in stores and on PlayMPE now CIDR, KPRI, KRVB, WCLZ, WZEW, KRSH, WWNU, KTHX, WEZZ, WVOD... ON: WEZZ, WFIV, KSMT, WBJB, WYCE, WCBE, WBSD, MSPR, WERU... The #6 Most Played Artist at AAA in 2013 Tour and Coachella coming On tour: 2/19 Philadelphia, 2/20 Boston, 2/22 New York City, 2/23 Vienna VA... Boy & Bear “Southern Sun” Sleeper Agent “Waves” Mediabase 17*, BDS 20*, Indicator 19*, FMQB Public 9*! Tour starts 3/19 FMQB Tracks 53*! New: WNRN, KMTN, KSKI, WMSR ON: WMMM, WZEW, WCOO, New: WNCS, KOHO, WMSR, KZYR ON: KFOG, KGSR, WXRV, KINK, WQKL, SiriusXM, KPND, WFPK, KCLC, KYSL, WMWV, KROK, WFIV, WOCM, WVOD, KSMT, WEZZ... WCLZ, WRLT, KRVB, WCOO, WZEW, KPND, WFUV, WFPK, KCSN, WTMD, KXT, WEZZ... About Last Night album produced by Jay Joyce, in stores March 25 Nicole Atkins “Girl You Look Amazing” Los Lonely Boys “Don’t Walk Away” BDS Indicator Debut 22*! FMQB Tracks 48*, Public 19*! In stores now BDS Indicator #25! Revelation in stores now New this week: KAXE New: WERS, KSMT, WDIY ON: WXPN, WFUV, WEXT, WEHM, KUTX, ON: KPND, KRSH, WNKU, WEXT, KCSN, KPIG, WVOD, WBJB, KROK, KCLC, KXT, WEZZ, KSPN, KFMU, WJCU, KSUT, KROK, WOCM, KBAC, WDST, WNRN... KTAO, KBAC, KMMS, KSPN, KFMU, KNBA, KYSL... Lots of touring coming up Robert Ellis “Only Lies” The Alternate Routes “Nothing More” From the album The Lights From The Chemical Plant, in stores now Huge response to the usage of the song in NBC’s Olympics coverage New: WMSR, WFHB ON: KUTX, WMVY, WEXT, WOCM, WNKU, WCBE, WEZZ, WFIV, Selling over 2K singles each week! ON: WCLZ, WXPK, WCNR, WVOD, WEHM, KSUT, WOCM, WNCW, KUNC, KDHX, Acoustic Cafe... National tour going on now WTMD, WBJB, KMMS... New version with Ingrid Michaelson available now Aimee Mann and Ted Leo bring The Both to your town 4/24 Northampton, MA - Pearl Street 5/3 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer 4/25 Boston, MA - The Paradise 5/5 Pittsburgh, PA - Mr. Smalls 4/26 Portland, ME - Port City Music Hall 5/6 Cleveland, OH - Beachland 4/27 New Haven, CT - Toad’s Place 5/7 Ann Arbor, MI - Blind Pig 4/29 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom 5/9 Chicago, IL - Metro 5/1 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg 5/10 Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line 5/2 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club ... and at the NON-COMMvention! PopMatters pops in with a fantastic review for Wild Child “There is an excellent new record released early in October (The Noise Company) by the Austin-based group Wild Child called The Runaround. In a year tragically replete with the failures of ambitious projects by well-funded and well-known artists, it’s comforting to find success on the second offering of a group that went largely overlooked on their first release. Such is the nature of the music industry. Music television channels have been a joke for the better part of two decades and neither is there much to be discovered listening to the radio. The increasing homogenization of American culture has created a polarized musical landscape lacking a middle ground of legitimate artistic expression. While national level acts churn out bland balladry in anticipation of mass appeal, working musicians become more inclined to produce bizarre amalgamations of purposely disparate sounds in imitation of sophistication. There is no reason to despair, though. A mother lode of good music exists, but like anything precious to find it you’ll have to dig beneath the accumulated debris of surface material. The perfect pop song shouldn’t be such a mystery. Any example of popular music done well displays a seemingly effortless combination of emo- tional purity in lyrics and vocal delivery combined with a pleasing, repetitive musical accompaniment. As with nursery rhymes (perhaps the most enduring genre of pop) the ultimate aesthetic can be found in well-delineated, proportioned simplicity. But the devil is in the details, and when those details detract from the symmetry of a song—say, if the vocals, lyrics, or music are forced or disingenuous—then the emotional impact of the song as a whole dissolves. For a group that won’t likely sell much of a record you’ll likely never listen to, Wild Child’s The Runaround finds success where so many others have failed. Lesser critics are fond of calling this album “innocent”. A precursory listen would qualify this statement. Indeed, there is an easy going simplicity to the preferred method of string ar- rangement which recalls one to the lullaby, the nursery rhyme. It doesn’t help much that main vocalist Kelly Wilson’s vocal delivery is shudderingly emphatic and uncompromising in its loveliness. Wilson’s voice is a sweet glass of water to one dying of thirst in this impersonal world. But to characterize the entire album based on such immediate perceptions means a lot of those critics haven’t been doing their jobs. Indie pop is in the midst of its heyday. Related groups like Cocoon, the Lumineers and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have elevated a form of music from the main street coffee house to the mainstream common house- hold name. Though Wild Child might be a little late to the game, The Runaround displays the duality of innocence mixed with conflict that has propelled those other groups to exalted success. One look at the contrasting nature of the Andersonesque album cover goes lengths to foreshadow the sonic journey contained within. On it the child representations of the Wild Child’s core group, Alexander Beggins and Wilson, are surrounded by wolves in a forest clearing set in front of a rustic, dilapidated structure. Love songs, like reminiscence on childhood, can be beautiful. Love, like childhood, is a very messy affair that can entail negative lifelong repercus- sions. And while outwardly The Runaround resembles the former, a deeper inspection reveals a truth closer to the latter. Album single “Crazy Bird”‘s whistled chorus and uptempo beat would imply the honeymoon stage of any romantic encounter. However the lyrics describe something darker. There is something sick and desperate concerning any relationship of command. There is love present, sure, but along with that highest of emotions floods a current of lesser sentiments: jealousy, distrust, obsession and resentment. Album opener “Living Tree” follows similar themes, detailing the path of love’s pleasure turned sour and describing how the emotion that was meant to set the protagonist free rooted her to a very unpleasant spot. The Runaround isn’t all gloom. Like many fairy tales, the themes explored over its 11 tracks relate grand concepts—love, passion, discovery and connection—while the narrative path encounters more desultory settings. It is pointless to tell a story without telling it well, and so it should come as no surprise the overall production value on the record is superb. Much like the Head and the Heart, Wild Child has transitioned in the space of a single album from rustic, homespun intimacy to opulent, lush orchestration. What separates the two is the means to these ends. Whereas the Head and the Heart were supplied ample resources to create a failed magnum opus, Wild Child crowdsourced the production of The Runaround to create a sleeper giant. Will the underdog win in this situation? Probably not. The music industry is about the furthest thing from a fairy tale or children’s poem you could ever encounter. It has no memory, no allegiance and no faith in the promise of better things to come. If it weren’t for Wild Child’s fans, The Run- around wouldn’t exist. This alone is proof the world isn’t as bleak as we often like to believe it is. There is color in this existence, there is hope in every struggle, and there is some mote of truth in every nursery rhyme. Wild Child reminds us lest we forget, “Merrily merrily merrily / Life is but a dream.” - PopMatters, 11/13/13 Rating: 8/10 Coming up... 3/3: Circa Zero “Levitation,” Miner “Hey Love”... 3/10: Robert Cray “You Move Me,” Dan Croll “From Nowhere,” Chuck Ragan “Something May Catch Fire”... 3/17: Ray LaMontagne RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 2/19/2014