RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 11/4/2015 Elliot Moss “Best Light” The first single from his debut album Highspeeds, edit on PlayMPE, full cd in stores and in the mail to radio now New at KBAC, KCLC, KVNA and WXRY Already on WFIV, WCBE and KSLU “Moss was one of the festival’s youngest artists, but he showed rare maturity and dedication by letting his songs transcend normal genre constraints.” - Billboard (on his Eaux Claires Festival set) “Foggy, melancholy fuzzed-out folk with traces of brass and wobly electronics fraying the edges outward.” - Sterogum On tour now with Wild Child Ben Caplan “I Got Me A Woman” From Birds With Broken Wings, on your desk now, in stores 11/20 New: WKZE, WUSM, WERU Already on WJCU, WFIV, WCBE, WYCE, KUNC, WUKY, KVNA, WHRV, KSLU “Full of rousing choruses, eclectic instrumentation and dramatic and spooky lyricism. The songs are distant cousins to both Tom Waits and Gogol Bordello.” - CBC Music Watch two great live performances on our site US tour dates now: 11/4 Los Angeles, 11/5 Phoenix, 11/6 El Paso, 11/7 Dallas, 11/10 Nashville, 11/11 Charlotte... Liz Vice “Empty Me Out” From her debut There’s A Light, in stores now New at WVMP Already on WXPN, WYMS, Music Choice, WJCU, WYCE, WFIV, WCBE, WNRN, WUMB, World Cafe, WUKY, KDHX, KAXE, KVNF, MSPR, MPR, WERU and KSLU “The connection between gospel and 60s soul is reaffirmed on There’s A Light.” - NY Times Great press: NPR Weekend Edition, NBC News and much more Video premiered on WSJ’s Speakeasy blog NPR “Songs We Love” and World Cafe Next National tour going on now Vanessa Carlton “Operator” The first single from Liberman, in stores now New at WVMP and WERU Already on WEZZ, KFLY, WYCE, WZLO, WCBE, WNCW, KSLU, KDEC, KRCC, KSNO, KZYR, WFIV, Music Choice... “Fourteen years ago, Vanessa Carlton made a very popu- lar song that will follow her around forever. Fair enough; it’s very catchy. But times have changed. Can’t Vanessa?” - Pitchfork Extenstive national tour going on now Video on our site now, featured last week on Buzzfeed Fantastic press Genevieve Bellemare “Shenanigans” Pronounced JOHN-vee-ev BELL-mar The first single from Melancholy Fever, in stores now New at WVMP, KRCC and WERU Already on WEHM, WJCU, WCBE, WFIV, WYCE, KHUM, KAXE, Open Air/CPR, KSMF, KSLU, MSPR, KVNA, KDEC... “When listening to the first single from Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Geneviève Bellemare’s forthcom- ing album, it’s hard to believe the 23-year-old has remained slightly under the radar.” - Interview Magazine Bob Schneider “Han Solo” The second single from his King Kong ep series New at KHUM Already on: Music Choice, WJCU, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT, WZLO, WBJB, WFIV, WMVY, WOCM, KROK, KKAL, KDEC, WSGE, KVNA... “Han Solo and Chewbacca always seemed like an old married couple in Star Wars. They’d argue here and there, but there was always that bond between the two. You knew that they’d been through a lot together. I think that’s what being in a long term relationship is all about.” - Bob Greg Holden “Boys In The Street” The powerful second single from Chase The Sun New at KTAO Already on KFOG, KINK, WRLT, WXPN, KCMP, WFUV, WJCU, KVNA, WNKU, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT, WDST, KRML, WOCM, WZLO, KSNO, KZYR... Just toured with Vintage Trouble “I have a lot of gay friends and I know a lot of people who have been through the struggle of their family not understanding them. The song isn’t necessarily just supposed to be about a gay kid and his dad. That song is a really a song of acceptance on any sort of level.” - Greg Collective Soul “AYTA (Are You The Answer)” The first single from See What You Started By Continuing, their Vanguard debut Fantastic sales! New at WNCS and WVMP Already added at KBCO, WTTS. WXRV, KCSN, WJCU, WAPS, KROK, WFIV, KLRR, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT, WMVY, WOCM, WVOD, KVNA, KDEC, KRVM, KDBB... This is the band’s 21st year together and their ninth album overall National tour: 11/4 Portland, 11/6 Reno, 11/9 San Francisco, 11/0 San Diego, 11/12 Las Vegas, 11/13 LA, 11/14 Riverside... EL VY “Return To The Moon” The title track first single from the new project from Matt Berninger of The National and Brent Knopf, in stores now! Mediabase 11*, BDS Monitored7*, Indicator 2*, FMQB Tracks 3*, Public 3*! New: XM Loft, KMMS, KSUT, WYCE Already on SiriusXM, KGSR, WXRT, KBCO, WTTS, KRVB, WRLT, KINK, WRNR, WXPK, KCSN, WCLZ, WXPN, WFUV, KCMP, WEZZ, KTHX, WCOO, KPND, WNCS, WTMD, WQKL, WWCT, WERS, WYMS, KUTX, KXT, WWNU, WEHM... Played on Conan Just kicked off their US tour dates Darlingside “Go Back” The first single from Birds Say, in stores now New at KCSN and WBJB Already on WNCS, WRSI, WEXT, WCBE, KNBA, WKZE, WMVY, WOCM, WYCE, WZLO, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT, KKAL, KRCC, WFIV, KHUM, KROK, KXCI, WUMB, WFHB, KVNA, KDHX... On tour now with Patty Griffin “We just had Darlingside visit for a live in studio. Once I got my jaw off the floor I told the band we were moving them up to medium. We only added it last week. I am tough on bands and songs; Darlingside are just that good.” Zeb Norris/WNCS Austin Plaine “Never Come Back Again” The first single from his self-titled debut, in stores now BDS Indicator 27*, FMQB Tracks 41*! New at WXRV, WCNR, WVMP, KTAO, WDVX Already on KINK, SiriusXM Coffeehouse, KCMP, WWNU, WEZZ, WCOO, WZEW, KPND, KRSH, KRML, WEXT, WKZE, WJCU, KHUM, KKAL, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT, KOHO, WVOD, KSUT... Great licensing syncs already for his music on multiple tv shows Beautiful video online now “[Plaine] has an approachable country-tinged style that comes through on his latest release.” - Billboard Communion Residency tour in December The Saint Johns “Shadowplay” The first single from their upcoming album, available on PlayMPE New at WFPK and WEXT Already on WRLT, WJCU, WCBE, KBAC, WFIV, KVNA, KDBB The Saint Johns’ Jordan Meredith on their song to Paste, where the acoustic video was premiered: “This song was therapy for me. Sometimes a song can hit you in so many different places that it kind of breaks you open. That’s what ‘Shadowplay’ did to me.” Played with Jackie Greene this summer, performed at PRPD and on the road again Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors “Here We Go” The second single from Medicine New: WVMP Already on WRLT, KRML, KSPN, KFMU, KSMT, KHUM, WOCM, WBJB, WUIN, WFIV, WNRN, WEXT... “Here We Go” explores universal themes of alienation - who hasn’t, at some point, felt like a castaway on a private island of misfit toys? The song provides a useful reminder that we’re all in the same boat, and that it’s a good thing we’ve got people and music around to make it better.” - NPR On tour all fall! Grace Potter “Empty Heart” From the album Midnight, in stores! Mediabase 18*, BDS Monitored 19*, Indicator #9, FMQB Tracks 11*! New: WTYD, WXTG, MSPR, KAXE Already on KFOG, WXRV, WRNR, KINK, WRLT, WMMM, WNCS, WXPN, WQKL, KCSN, KRVB, WEZZ, WCLZ, WZEW, KPND, WCOO, KTHX, WWNU, KTBG, WJCU, WDST, WCNR... Spin: “One of the best living voices in rock today.” On tour all fall! The Kickback “Sting’s Teacher Years” The first single from Sorry All Over The Place, produced by Spoon’s Jim Eno In stores now New at XM Loft! Already on WOCM, KROK, WFIV, WBJB, WYCE, WCBE, KDHX, KVNA, WFHB, KUWR, KRCC, MSPR, WYSO and KDBB Great at CMJ! “The sort of brashly energetic and bashfully snotty music that the Midwest’s supposedly greatest city ought to be generating at the same rate Brooklyn does.” - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Gavin James “Bitter Pill” The first single from his upcoming album Already on WJCU, KRML KKAL, WFIV, KVNA, KBAC, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT, WCBE, KDEC, KDBB Toured for a month this summer with Sam Smith “This is a smash hit record from an incredible artist” - Zane Lowe/Beats 1 Headlining dates going on now Gavin has had a busy year including touring with Kodaline, a show in Ireland with Ed Sheeran and more Clara-Nova “An Island” The first single from their upcoming ep, in stores now New at WFPK, WOCM Already added at Music Choice, KUTX, WFIV, WCBE, EAV Something big happened at Spotify: hit top 20 on the Viral chart, now nearing 50,000 streams to date Just wrapped up a Communion Residency, more touring soon “Oozes out of the speakers and lifts your soul” - The Deli/LA Music blog Ben Folds “Phone In A Pool” The first single from So There, in stores now BDS Monitored New & Active, Indicator #20, FMQB Tracks #27, Public #24! Already on WRLT, WNCS, WCOO, WERS, WEZZ, KPND, WFUV, KCSN, KCMP, KRSH, WTMD, WJCU, WFPK, WEHM, WYEP, KTBG, WZEW, WCNR, WVMP, WUIN, WYMS... eTown recently aired! Fall tour with yMusic, winter with local symphonies Ben Folds catches up with the Charleston City Paper “Before our phone interview with Ben Folds even begins, the piano-pop star — whose humor has been well documented in his music for the past two decades — is already giv- ing us some pretty valuable blackmail material. “A call-recording app, huh?” he says after the “record” signal sounds. “That’s like something people probably use in divorces and stuff for, like, child custody. In fact, you might sell some things if I were to say stuff like [cue very Southern accent], ‘Bitch, I told ya, I’m takin’ the kids and goin’ ‘cross state lines. You cain’t stop me. I’m drunk. Fuck it!’ That might be helpful.” Folds will cross state lines as soon as he embarks on a tour with classical sextet yMusic in support of last month’s release, So There, a superb collection of chamber-pop songs and piano concertos. But today, he’s just driving around, cracking jokes. “I’m passing a Jenny Craig next to an Edible Arrangements,” he says, giving us the play-by-play. “Oh man, it’s awesome. It’s a Jenny Craig that’s right between a pizza kitchen and an Edible Arrange- ments. They just have to put blinders on and walk straight in to Jenny Craig’s and get their little food packet.” Clearly, it’s a good day to get inside the head of the man who once hilariously covered Dr. Dre’s “Bitches Ain’t Shit” and rose to fame in the mid-’90s with Ben Folds Five and their goofy brand of alt rock. From the early days of the band’s Whatever and Ever Amen — with its demands like, “Give me my money back, you bitch ... and don’t forget to give me back my black T-shirt” (“Song for the Dumped”) — to his solo career (See this year’s exceptionally silly “F10-D-A” off So There), Folds has found endless creativity and a lot of success in, for the most part, keeping it lighthearted. For example, if you’ve ever been to one of his shows, you’ll know he’s also known to perform interactively with the audience and compose songs on the spot. In fact, he says he has a few from some Charleston shows he’s performed in years past. And sometimes these songs make it to a studio album, like So There’s “Phone in a Pool.” “We record all the songs I make up when I’m playing gigs, and my sound man is kind enough to compile them for me and just send them to me,” Folds explains. “So I’ve got hundreds from every year, and sometimes when I’m thinking about making an album, I’ll just pore through them because I think they’re just spontaneous, unguarded, neat little melodies.” Folds really did throw his phone in a pool, by the way — that part’s not made up. “[That song] makes me think of when I threw my phone in a pool, and Ke$ha jumped in and got it out with all her clothes on,” he says. Yep, that Ke$ha, who Folds has openly and unapologetically admired for several years. From the time Folds covered Ke$ha’s “Sleazy” in 2010 to his collaborations with everyone from Weird Al to William Shatner, Folds has never shied away from shocking his fans. And recently, with “I’m Not the Man,” he almost had the chance to associate himself with Al Pacino, too. “It was written as an attempt to land a song for Al Pacino to sing in this movie [Danny Collins] they made him sing in,” Folds says of the track, which didn’t make it into the film after all. The premise sees an aging rocker rethinking his life after receiving a letter from the late John Lennon. “And it was supposed to be this watershed moment where he realized he’d grown up and he didn’t need to keep repeating his younger self, and I thought that I could relate to that.” Folds’ career is full of not only ambitious efforts but spontaneous ones, too, like the time he and author Nick Hornby set out to write and record a full album (Lonely Avenue) in three days. Or when he and Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman, and Damian Kulash wrote and recorded eight songs in eight hours. Folds says that, many times, projects like those are dreamed up only days beforehand. And that’s what makes them so inspiring. “Sometimes those things happen like that,” Folds says. “I’m always open to it because it reminds me that a three-and-a-half-minute song can take three-and-a-half minutes to write. And that is very helpful when you’re writing, when you know it doesn’t have to be a big fucking masterpiece.” - Charleston City Paper, 11/4/15 MXDWN gives you the lowdown on the new Vanessa Carlton album “It could be said that a common preconception towards Vanessa Carlton is that she’s a “one hit wonder.” Mention “A Thousand Miles”, the quintessential pre-teen karaoke song, and anyone who turned on the radio in 2001 or has seen White Chicks will surely squeal at the first hint of the signature piano riff, yet would scratch their heads if further discussion was prompted regarding Carlton’s discography. Consequently, Liberman is Carlton’s firm and unwavering attempt at proving the general consensus wrong. It’s a mature and adroit record, a steadfast comeback. Those who considered Carlton just another striving pop artist who simply hit the jackpot of movie soundtrack inclusion will surely be vehemently proved wrong. Liberman is ethereal and haunting. The opening piano melody featured on Blue Pool, her most recent EP, is spine-tingling, and Carlton’s pitch perfect vocals are transcendental. Liberman includes a couple tracks from Blue Pool, which was an intelligent move on Carlton’s part. Blue Pool was wonderfully original, a lush and trippy soundscape in which one was transported down a rabbit hole for fifteen minutes. The opening track of Liberman, “Take It Easy” (also featured on Blue Pool), is refreshingly unique and divergent from much of Carlton’s previous discography. It can only be described as hypnotic, a good song to simply close one’s eyes, lean back and relax to. Nearly all of the lyricism on Liberman is strictly metaphorical, her songs about love rarely straightforward and instead highly up to interpretation, such as “House of Seven Swords,” in which she sings about a certain individual protecting themselves with their “house of seven swords.” Several of the other tracks follow this vague pattern. As far as pop records go, Liberman reaches the absolute threshold of originality and breaks right through it. The fact that it’s not clean cut and simple furthers its status beyond the type of record your basic, everyday solo pop artist may produce. Liberman is complicated, dreamy, and haunt- ing. And it’s a breath of fresh air.” - MXDWN, 10/29/15 Coming up: 11/16 Kacy Hill “Arm’s Length”... Also: Amazon’s new holiday playlist, Indie For The Holidays RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 11/4/2015