RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 2/17/2021 William The Conqueror “Wake Up” The first US single from their new album Maverick Thinker, out 3/5 Early adds at KJAC and WBJB “Whip-smart indie rock that harks back to Stateside influences - we’re hearing aspects of Speedy Ortiz and Pavement - alongside that scratchy, UK indie sound, the West Country group are moving in their own lane.” - Clash Music (UK) Watch the video on my site now Kaleo “Break My Baby” The new single from their forthcoming album Surface Sounds, out 4/23 #1 Most Added! New: WRLT, KRVB, WQKL, WCLZ, WXPK, WPYA, WTMD, WERS, KMTN... Early: KCMP, Music Choice, WCNR, KVYN, WCLX, KVOQ, KJAC, KVNA, KPND, WAPS... “The pounding beat and JJ’s breathless wail are practically hair-raising in their unquenchable desire...” - Atwood Magazine Tune-Yards “hold yourself.” The first single from sketchy., out 3/26 Mediabase 50*, BDS Monitored New & Active, JBE Albums 37*! New: WTMD, KROK, WBJB, WYCE, WMNF, KXCI ON: WXRV, WRNR, WXPN, WFUV, KCMP, KCSN, WFPK, WYEP, KTBG, KXT, Music Choice, WPYA, WYMS, KVOQ, KJAC, WNCS, KVNA, WRSI, WZEW... “Centered around Garbus’ powerhouse vocals, the gauzy, bass-heavy beat ballad delivers a potent message of self-empowerment” - Pitchfork LP “How Low Can You Go” Her new single, going for adds now New: WPYA, KRML, KRVM ON: KBCO, WRLT, WRNR, Music Choice, WXPK, KTBG, KXT, WYMS, WCNR, KVOQ, KUTX, WAPS, WTMD, WDST, KMTN, WVMP, WCBE... Over 6MM streams since its release in November Fall 2021 tour scheduled Nearly 5MM monthly listeners on Spotify Official video and livestream full-band performance online now Weezer “All My Favorite Songs” From OK Human, out now Mediabase 12*, BDS Monitored 9*, Indicator 4*! Mediabase Alt 12*, JBE Albums 12*! New: WDST, KVYN, KUMT... ON: KBCO, KINK, KGSR, WRNR, WXRV, WRLT, WMMM, KRVB, WXPK, Music Choice, KCMP, WFUV, KCSN, WQKL, WKLQ, WPYA, WFPK, WYEP, WNCS, KVOQ, KTBG, WAPS, WCNR... Recorded last summer with a 38 piece orchestra Stadium tour planned Great album reviews Passenger “Sword From The Stone” From Songs For The Drunk And Broken Hearted, out now Kimmel 2/22! Mediabase 33*, BDS Monitored #1 New & Active, Indicator 18*! New: WMMM, WARQ, KOIT, WMWV ON: WRLT, KINK, WXRV, KRVB, WPYA, Music Choice, WXPK, WCLZ, KCSN, WAPS, KPND, WCNR, KJAC... Streaming over 500K/week “…a hauntingly beautiful collection of Americana gold, and likely Passenger’s finest and most focused record yet.” - Glide Taylor Swift feat. The National “coney island” From evermore, her second surprise album Mediabase #25, BDS Monitored #21, Indicator 27*, JBE Albums #23 New: KPND ON: SiriusXM Spectrum, WXRV, WRLT, WRNR, WFUV, WMMM, KCSN, KXT, KVOQ, KRVB, WPYA, WNCS, KTHX, WQKL, WKLQ, WCNR, WTMD, WYEP, WFPK, Music Choice, WWCT... “evermore is even better than folklore, thanks to greater sonic cohesion and stronger songwriting.” - AV Club The Black Crowes “Charming Mess” From the deluxe Shake Your Money Maker, out February 26 Mediabase 32*, BDS Monitored #30, Indicator #24! New: SiriusXM Spectrum, WXPK ON: WXRT, KBCO, KGSR, WXRV, WRLT, WFUV, WXPN, WCLZ, WYEP, KCSN, WFPK, Music Choice, WCNR, WTMD, WNCS, WZEW, WPYA, WNRN, WAPS... Originally set to be the band’s first single, but was left off of the album “We had plenty of hit songs on that record; I guess we didn’t need it.” - Chris Bahamas “Trick To Happy” From Sad Hunk Mediabase 46*, BDS Indicator 10*, JBE Albums ! Played this month on Kimmel New: WCLY, WCOO ON: WXRV, WRLT, WRNR, WPYA, Music Choice, WFPK, KCSN, KXT, WCLZ, WNCS, KTBG, KVOQ, WDST, WCNR, WYEP, KJAC, WTMD, KTSN, WNRN, KRSH... “Surround yourself with good people. If someone’s in your life, and they’re just giving you bullshit, cut them out— don’t waste your time on that.” - Afie to American Songwriter Future Islands “Plastic Beach” From As Long As You Are Mediabase 36*, BDS Monitored 35*, Indicator 28*! New: KRVB ON: WXRV, WXPK, KCMP, WFUV, KCSN, Music Choice, WRLT, WTMD, KTBG, WYEP, KVOQ, WPYA, WYMS, WFPK... “Herring steals the spotlight again on “Plastic Beach,” perhaps the most Future Islands-y song on this album. While he’s often fighting valiantly to win the love of someone else, here, rather, he’s struggling through a long battle to self-love.” - Paste ONR feat. Sarah Barthel (of Phantogram) “Must Stop” From his upcoming EP Mediabase Alt Top 25! New at KGSR ON: WRLT, WMMM, KCMP, WXRV, KXT, WTMD, KCSN, WNCS, WCNR, KTBG, KJAC, KVOQ, WYEP, KVNA, WCOO, WAPS, WDST... Over 1MM streams on Spotify “A song about being repeatedly hurt. About a lack of self-worth, a desperation to be in love and to be loved by someone, anyone — and the blows you can take when you leave yourself so open.” - ONR (Robert Shields) Julien Baker “Faith Healer” From Little Oblivions, due February 26 Mediabase 18*, BDS Monitored 17*, Indicator 21*, JBE Albums 9*! New at WMNF ON: KBCO, WXRV, WRLT, KRVB, Music Choice, KCMP, WFUV, WXPN, KCSN, WYEP, KTHX, WPYA, WFPK, WYMS, KVOQ, KTBG, WCLZ... Great Virtual Summit Fest set! “Not only the most richly produced, pop-aware release of Baker’s career, but also her most unsparingly honest in its messiness.” - Rolling Stone Aaron Lee Tasjan “Up All Night” The first single from Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!, out now JBE Albums 46*! New at WOXL ON: WRLT, KCSN, WXPK, WPYA, WTMD, WFPK, KJAC, KVYN, WAPS, KTBG, WEHM, KRSH, WZEW, WUIN, KMTN, KRML, WTYD, KEXP... “‘Half party anthem, half cautionary tale. It’s inspired by the times I’ve wondered if I need to get help with my drinking and what it meant that I was worrying about things in the first place?” - Aaron on the single Ron Gallo “HIDE (MYSELF BEHIND YOU)” From PEACEMEAL, out now ON: WRLT, WFUV, WXPN, WYMS, KCSN, KJAC, WCNR, WEHM, WNRN, WCLX, WLKR, WJCU, KROK... “HIDE is about being with someone because how they make you feel or the idea of them rather than who they really are. Sometimes we say “I love you, I want to be with you” but maybe we really mean “I don’t like me, I don’t want to be with myself and you can help distract me from me.” - Ron Slant Magazine praises Julien Baker’s Little Oblivions “Julien Baker’s first two studio albums, Sprained Ankle and Turn Out the Lights, found the sing- er-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist pairing her tremulous voice, gossamer instrumentation, and stark lyrical approach with themes of self-loathing, interpersonal dysfunction, and profound loneliness. On her latest, Little Oblivions, she broaches similar topics but with even more confi- dence, embracing harder-edged indie-rock textures to broaden her brand of “thanatoid pop,” a subgenre characterized by pained vocals, haunting melodies, and lyrics that alternate between auto-criticality and auto-apotheosis. The album’s opening track, “Hardline,” kicks off with an abrasive organ sound that brings to mind a B-horror flick. Despite this campy flourish, though, the song’s timbre quickly turns darker: “Start asking for forgiveness in advance/For all the future things I will destroy,” Baker sings. Around the two-minute mark, she all but eschews her folk roots, embracing an alt-anthemic instrumental mix à la PJ Harvey, Sharon Van Etten, or Angel Olsen, her voice more tonally defined—and defiant—than on her previous releases. “Relative Fiction” is one of the album’s melodic high points, reminiscent of “Souvenir” from Boygenius, Baker’s 2018 collaborative EP with Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus. The track’s ethereally repetitive piano part is used to disorienting effect, as if to induce motion sickness, with Baker offering a grimly predictable and inauspicious mantra: “I don’t need your help/I need you to leave me alone.” On “Faith Healer,” she paints a vivid portrait of someone languishing with somatic symptom disorder (“Snake oil dealer/I’ll believe you if you make me feel something”), her voice paradoxically charged and disembodied. A shuffling drum part on “Bloodshot” contrasts compellingly with Baker’s languorous vocal. In a striking couplet that references an unnamed trauma (“Five days out from the initial event/It takes two kinds of pills to unclench my fists”), the singer describes the effects of a “trigger,” the “initial event” in all likelihood reactivating an earlier and more psychological- ly foundational trauma. She then defaults to syndromic fatalism: “There’s no one around who can save me from myself,” echoing the fixation of the tragic romantic. The textural “Favor” most resembles Baker’s prior work, the singer’s tormented voice compellingly contrasted with the song’s spry instrumentation—in this case, static-y percussion and jangly guitars. Bridgers and Dacus contribute backing vocals on the hook-y chorus, their distinct performances adding sonic range to Little Oblivions. As the album progresses, Baker fleshes out her Opheliac persona, mostly striking an authentic tone, though occasionally flirting with cliché, as with the masochism expressed in “Song in E”: “I wish you’d come over not to stay, just to tell me/That I was your biggest mis- take.” With “Ziptie,” the album’s closing track, Baker achieves a potent confluence of vocal, melodic, verbal, and instrumental virtuosity, the track ending with the proclamation: “Good God, when’re you gonna call it off/Climb down off the cross and change your mind?” With these lines, she offers a transcendent prayer to a higher power or messianic figure, an impatient brush-off to a loyal lover, or gives herself permission to end her own perennial suffering. In the latter interpretation, these oblique lyrics can be regarded as tantamount to an oblique suicide note.