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RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 4/4/2018 The Mother Hips “It’s Alright” The first single from Chorus, their first new in five years, in stores June 8 and at radio now Early: WFIV, KHUM, KPIG, KBAC “There’s a reason that the Hips have made it 20 years and there’s a reason that the next decade could be their best yet.” - Relix “Divinely inspired” - “...impeccable songwriting and flawless riffs” - The New Yorker On tour now Playing in Boulder! Loreena McKennitt “A Hundred Wishes” The first single from Lost Souls, her first recording of original songs since 2006’s An Ancient Muse, in stores May 11 Her eclectic Celtic blend of pop, folk and world music has sold over 14 million worldwide. Her recordings have achieved Gold, Platinum and multi-Platinum status in 15 countries. She has twice been nominated for a Grammy Award and has won two Juno Awards, as well as a Billboard International Achievement Award. Snow Patrol “Don’t Give In” The first single from Wildness, due May 25 Medibase Debut 22*, BDS Monitored Debut 27*, Indicator Debut 29*! New: SiriusXM Spectrum, WXRT, KCMP, WRLT, WRNR, WNCS, WWCT, KSKI, WOCM, KROK, KSPN and more Already on KINK, WXRV, WXPK, WPYA, KRVB, WCLZ, KPND, KCSN, WMMM, KTHX, KVNV, WAPS, Music Choice, WZEW, WFPK, and more Playing festivals in Europe this summer, stay tuned for an announcement about US dates “Slow Burn” The first single from Golden Hour, in stores and at radio now New at WYEP, WAPS and KXCI Already on WRLT, WPYA, KTBG, WUIN, WFIV, WMWV, WYCE, WUKY, KDRP, WDVX, KDEC, KRVM, Acoustic Cafe and Maine Public Radio Out now with Little Big Town, opening the Harry Styles summer tour “Musgraves is nervy enough to let her guard down and embrace her complexity, and that’s given her listeners more to grab a hold of than ever.” -NPR Pearl Jam “Can’t Deny Me” The first single from their upcoming album (title and street date TBD) Mediabase 31*, BDS Monitored 27*, Indicator Debut 29*! New: WZEW, KBAC, WEXT, WMWV, WUSM Already on WXRT, KFOG, KCMP, KCSN, WRNR, KTHX, WPYA, WWCT, WXPK, WNCS, KPND, KTBG, KVNV, WFPK, WEHM... This is their first new original song in five years, since the release of 2013’s Lightning Bolt Stadium shows this summer in , Missoula, Chicago and Boston James Bay “Pink Lemonade” The new single from Electric Light, in stores May 18 Mediabase 43*, BDS Monitored New & Active, Mediabase Alternative 35*! New: WRLT, WERS Already on WMMM, WNCS, WCLZ, KTHX, WZEW, Music Choice, WXPK, KPND, KXT, KVNV, KCLC, WFIV, KVNA, WDST, WVOD, KROK, WCNR, WLKR... Wrapping up a series of US dates this week, with an extensive run kicking off in September “Can We Hang On?” The third single from LA Divine, going for adds now BDS Indicator 31*, FMQB Tracks Debut 49*! Already on WRLT, Music Choice, WPYA, KVNV, KPND, WYMS, WZEW, WOCM, WVOD, KCLC, WDST, WJCU, KLRR, WSGE, WLKR, KDRP... Hangout Fest and more touring coming up “It’s a hopeful love song that looks back with nostalgia on the good old days but is uncertain about the future.” - Nathan Willett/CWK The Ballroom Thieves “Can’t Cheat Death” The first single from Paper Crown, their new EP on Nettwerk Single available in my Dropbox, full EP on your desk now New: WMVY, WUMB, WERU Already on KJAC, WBJB, WCBE, WEXT, WFIV, KNBA, KROK, WYCE, KSLU, WBSD On tour now opening for Phillip Phillips: 4/5 Milwaukee, 4/6 Chicago, 4/7 Detroit, 4/10 Cleveland, 4/11 Louisville, 4/14 Chattanooga “Everybody Thinks They Know (But No One Really Knows)” The first single from SLUFF, in stores now Huge raves for their SXSW shows! New at WRLT Already on KCMP, KJAC, KEXP, WAPS, WCBE, WFIV, WJCU, KROK, KVNA, KTAO... Produced by (Nirvana, ) “Naked Giants exemplify everything we love about being young: the free- dom, the playfulness and the energy of an entire generation, wrapped inside three musicians in their early 20s who want to make the most out of life.” - Paste Brian Fallon “If Your Prayers Don’t Get To Heaven” The new single from Sleepwalkers, out now Already on WFUV, Music Choice, KVNV, KJAC, WAPS, WJCU, KVNA, WEHM, WCNR, WFIV, WYCE, WBJB “It’s just Fallon and his microphone, crooning and crowing over these rhythm and blues-focused rave-ups, holding court over an old-school rock revival to match his restless mood.” - The AV Club US tour dates going on now Danielle Nicole “Cry No More” The title track single from her new album, in stores now Already on KTBG, KVNA, WTMD, KJAC, KRSH, WNCW, KBAC, WBJB, KPIG, WFIV, WCBE, WYCE, WEXT, KDNK, KSUT, KRCC, KUWR, KVNF, MSPR, WUTC, KSMF, WERU, KAXE “Danielle Nicole is Kansas City Royalty... A trea- sured part of who we are. Cry No More is a career highlight, and the title track her crowning achievement.” -Jon Hart/KTBG On tour through May Caroline Rose “Soul No. 5” The first single from her New West album Loner, out now FMQB Public 35*! New at MSPR Already on WNCS, WPYA, XM Loft, WXPN, KUTX, KEXP, WRLT, KJAC, WAPS, KRSH, KVNV, WDST, WFIV, KCLC, WEXT, WCBE, KVNA, WYCE, KTAO, WNCW, KDHX, KDRP, KXCI... Arist To Watch: “LONER represents her at her best.” Killer shows at SXSW, now out on an extensive tour run JD McPherson “On The Lips” The second single from Undivided Heart & Soul, following up the AAA hit “Lucky Penny” Mediabase #33, BDS Monitored #34, Indicator #27! Already on: WXRV, WRLT, KCMP, KCSN, WQKL, KTHX, WNCS, WTMD, KTBG, WRSI, WYEP, Music Choice, WCLZ, WFPK, KPND, KVNV... On tour this month “McPherson seems to be pushing himself to the ranks of the greats, getting better and more interesting as he moves forward.”–No Depression Belle and Sebastian “The Same Star” From How To Solve Our Human Problems, available now FMQB Public #32! Full album with all three EPs is on out now and on your desk Already on KCMP, KEXP, WFUV, KJAC, WYMS, WFPK, KVNA, WJCU, WCBE, KNBA, KDHX, WYCE, WBJB, WFIV, WUSM, WDIY, WMNF, WEVL... “The EPs mark a significant moment in tbe band’s two-decade long career” - Billboard “A fresh set of jangly dance-pop tunes” - People Tune-Yards “Heart Attack” The new single from I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life, out now Already on WFUV, KCMP, WRLT, WYMS, WFPK, WYEP, KVNV, WTMD, KRSH, WAPS, KVNA, WCBE, WCNR, WYCE, KRML, WRSI, WNRN, WNCW, KNBA, KTAO, WVOD and more “Instrumentally a blast... the band establishes a groove that would make even a corpse’s toe tap” - Paste Coming up this month... 4/16: Matt Costa “Sharon,” Ziggy Marley “Rebellion Rises,” The National “Guilty Party”... 4/23: Jessie Baylin “Summertime,” Kat Edmonson “How’s About It Baby”... 4/30: The Record Company “Life To Fix,” Sam Lewis “One And The Same,” Johnnyswim & Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors “Ring The Bells” Glide Magazine finds comfort in Naked Giants “When I first saw the Naked Giants’ frenetic shredding onstage a few months back, it felt like capturing lightning in a bottle. Their perfor- mance was youthful and wild like they were making it up as they went along and it just happened to come out perfectly. Their look was nostal- gic, like 70s punk colliding with 90s in one big mosh pit. Hail- ing from Seattle, the trio recently brought that same energy to SXSW, emerging as one of the most talked about bands of the festival. And likely we’ll keep hearing a lot more about them now that their antici- pated debut album SLUFF has landed. SLUFF moves like a wildfire, spreading flaming guitar riffs in every possible direction. It is loud and rambunctious, and you can almost imagine their recording sessions looking as uncaged and sweaty as their live sets. You can practically hear them jumping off the walls and slamming into each other as they burn through each song. Listening to SLUFF is like sifting through your favorite thrift store, gathering gems from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s and throwing them together in one cohesive and effortlessly cool look. “TV” has retro swagger mixed with heavy hitting guitar, and “Everybody Thinks They Know (But No One Really Knows)” plays up a pop-punk sound with 60s beach rock drums. “Slow Dance II” is slinky and bluesy, and “Goldfish I” is trippy and fuzzed out. The album’s title track boasts one of its catchiest melodies, perfect for shouting “SLUFF!” along with the band should you get to a live show. And don’t miss the chance – these songs are best enjoyed thrashing into the people around you, your beer sloshing around from so much head-bang- ing.” - Glide Magazine, 4/3/18 Let The Washington Post talk to you about Kacey Musgraves “Word on the bandwidth is that Kacey Musgraves dropped acid while listen- ing to a Tame Impala record and now she’s the greatest country-singer-for-peo- ple-who-don’t-listen-to-country-music that our dumb century has ever heard. What a dim way to think about Musgraves’s “Golden Hour,” an extraordinary new album which, sure, may have been inspired by hallucinogens and pseudo psych-rock but still aces many of the tests that we expect a great country album to pass. For one, if is about everyday life, here’s a songwriter arguing that awe and bewilderment are essential to our everyday lives. What a heavy thought to make light. Our wonderment is completely ordinary. And while Musgraves seems to be gazing into this titanic truth through a drowsy third-eye, her calm feels particularly un-trippy during “Oh, What a World,” a small song about big mysteries. Across two sweetly sung verses, she jots down a grocery list of mindblowers — the aurora borealis, bioluminescent sea creatures, psychoactive plants, a belief in reincarnation, the possibility of a multiverse — and then repeats a little mantra to keep her brain from floating off into the void like a slippery helium balloon. “These are real things,” she tells herself. “Yeah, these are real things.” For reality-obsessed country music fans, that’s a serious piece of bubble gum to chew on. Musgraves’s reality is the only one she has to go by. And the same goes for you, and for me, and for everybody else. You need to hear the music, though. It’s easy to reduce a country song to its lyrics, and Musgraves knows that the real meaning of a song lies in how the voice illuminates the words, anyway. So now she seems to be approaching her as if it were some kind of meditation. Instead of going on lung-scorching rocket rides or sinking into pillowy whisper games, Musgraves only ever appears to be moving toward the stillness of the center of her voice. The effect can be strange and beautiful. She sounds her most emotive whenever she sounds her most bored. And what’s boredom, really? The softest kind of yearning. That soft desire has been the hallmark of Musgraves’s music ever since 2013’s “Same Trailer, Different Park,” a tremendous debut album that captures the bruising stretch of adulthood when your idealism begins to sour. Musgraves tried to stay that course with 2015’s “Pageant Material,” but nearly derailed the whole thing with too many winking lyrical puns that veered toward Etsy crocheted pillow territory. (“Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy,” for instance.) That’s another reason “Golden Hour” feels like a triumph — it never sounds cute, even when it sounds clever. Like when she duets with a vocoder on “Oh, What a World.” Or when she rides a Phoenix-style disco beat on “High Horse.” She’s deploying new tools to tweak the temperature, but everything is presented in the same understated way that Musgraves delivers her words. She bends her music neatly to the contours of her voice. As a lyricist, she’s still a straight talker hoping to communicate cosmic stuff as plainly as possible — and when she’s not up to the challenge, she does something great. She bails. Check out the willowy chorus of “Happy & Sad” when Musgraves asks, “Is there a word for the way that I’m feeling tonight?” Maybe, probably. But instead of working to find it, she settles for seven words: “Happy and sad at the same time.” It’s hard to imagine a more perfect piece of stoner poetry than that. Even greater stumbles come in the opening line of “Butterflies,” a song co-written with Music Row superscribes and . “I was just coasting, never really going anywhere,” Musgraves sings at the outset, strumming her guitar, no particu- lar place to go. “Caught up in a web, I was getting kind of used to staying there.” When the refrain hits, it’s the power of love that — quietly, delicately, almost unceremoniously — swoops in to save the day. But it’s good to listen to the opening lines of “Butterflies” in isolation. For a singer who can do efficiency so well, that first couplet feels redundant, untidy, jammed up with a tentative “really” and a space-eating “kind of.” But then Musgraves exhales the melody so evenly, so uneventfully, it’s difficult to feel any turbulence. And how’s that for a metaphor? Life is boring, and overcrowded, and a bit of a mess, and you’re probably drifting right through it without even noticing. Here’s a country singer who has been kind enough to open her third eye and take note. The rest of us only have to open our ears.” - The Washington Post, 4/3/18 The Mother Hips are back on the road - here’s where to find them 4/5-7 Girdwood, AK 5/11 Carrboro, NC 4/27 Arcata, CA 5/12 Asheville, NC 4/28-29 Redding, CA 5/13 Charleston, SC 5/3 Burlington, VT 5/18-20 Big Sur, CA 5/4 Somerville, MA 6/1 Paso Robles, CA 5/5 New York, NY 6/9 San Francisco, CA 5/6 Philadelphia, PA 6/14 Minneapolis, MN 5/8 Vienna, VA 6/17 Ferndale, MI 5/9 Charlottesville, VA 6/23 Bend, OR 5/10 Richmond, VA 7/27 Stanley, ID RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 4/4/2018