RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 4/3/2013 “Ohio” FMQB #1 Most Added a week early! The first single from , in stores May 7, going for adds now Already on: WNKU, WYEP, KUTX, KCSN, WFPK, WFIV, SiriusXM Loft, KSUT, WMWV, WCBE, KTBG... Featuring harmony vocals from on the single as well as two additional tracks Single available on PlayMPE, advance full cds on the way to radio now National tour in June This is her seventh album, the first of new material since 2007’s Bob Schneider “Unpromised Land” BDS Overall #1 Most Added! From his upcoming album Burden of Proof, in stores June 17 First week: KPRI, KRSH, KPND, WJCU, KOHO, KSPN, KFMU, WEXT, WCBE, WOCM, KMTN, KTAO, KROK... Added early at WXRV, WFIV, WBJB and KDBB Single on your desk and on PlayMPE now Texas dates booked for April and May, national tour dates on the schedule for this summer Bob’s StageIt performance is scheduled for April 9, single available on iTunes the same day Vampire Weekend “Diane Young” Most Added AGAIN! BDS New & Active! Indicator Debut 17*! Modern Vampires Of The City in stores May 7 New: KINK, KPND, KUTX, WTMD, WCNR... ON: WXRT, WRNR, WRLT, WXPK, WXPN, KCMP, WFUV, KXT, KCSN, WFPK, WEHM, WDST... Big Modern Rock adds too! US Dates: 4/12 Vegas, 4/14 Coachella, 4/16 Davis CA, 4/17 Oakland CA, 4/18 Pomona CA, 4/21 Coachella, 5/15 Boston, 5/17 Detroit, 5/19 Kansas City, 5/20 Red Rocks CO, 5/21 Salt Lake City, 5/23 Portland OR, 5/24 Sasquatch Festival, 6/23 Firefly Festival... “The song simply rocks up a storm, in a distinctly VW kind of way. Sounds like a band that still has plenty left to prove.” - & The Dukes (and Duchesses) The Whigs “Invisible” “Staying Alive” The first single from The Low Highway, in stores April 16 The second single from Enjoy The Company, going for adds now FMQB 8*! New: KXCI, WVMP, KBAC Already ON: WXRV, WFUV, “Every time they step into the studio they emerge valiantly KCSN, KEXP, KUTX, WDST, KPIG, WBJB, WNKU, WKZE, KPIG, with another gratifying, well-built rock record.” - Paste WFIV, WEXT, KSUT, WYCE, WNCW, WJCU, KOZT, WNRN... New: KSMT, WEVL Already ON: WXRV, KRSH, KPND, KOHO, WNKU, On tour: 4/27 Rutland VT, 5/2 Concord NH, 5/4 Niagara Falls NY, 5/7 WBJB, WNRN, WOCM, WFIV, WJCU, KBAC, DMX, KROK, KCLC... Alexandria VA, 5/8 Brooklyn NY, 5/12 Boston MA... Powerful video May tour dates with Drivin’ N Cryin’, then Wakarusa Festival Beth Hart Ron Sexsmith “Bang Bang Boom Boom” “Snake Road” FMQB Tracks 51*! Public 57*! New: Music Choice, KOHO, WYCE... The first single from Forever Endeavour, in stores and on your desk now ON: WRLT, KPND, KRSH, WZEW, WNKU, WEXT, WTMD, WBJB, WMWV, FMQB Public 35*! New: WYCE, KRCL, WEVL, WMNF, WPR ON: WFUV, WCBE, KBAC, WJCU, KSUT, WFIV, KSPN, KFMU, KNBA, KMTN, KUNC... WFPK, KRSH, WNRN, KBAC, WFIV, WBJB, KUNC, KNBA, KOHO, KCLC... Sold out tour: 4/30 Austin, 5/2 Dallas, 5/4&5 Nashville, 5/7 Atlanta, NPR All Things Considered piece aired April tour, 4/3 New York 5/9&11 Philly, 5/13&16&17 NYC In stores now Video online City, 4/4 Boston, 4/11 Chicago West Coast dates coming in June BOY Mike Doughty “Little Numbers” “Sunshine” BDS Monitored Debut 28*! Indicator 21*! New: WXRT, WMMM, KRVB, WAPS... The second single from The Flip Is Another Honey, going for adds now ON: KBCO, KTCZ, WXPK, SiriusXM Spectrum, WQKL, WNCS, WZEW, KCKC, New: WOCM Already ON: WVMP, KBAC, KLRR, KMTN, WFIV and more WCOO, KPND, KRSH, KCMP, WXPN, KCSN, WYMS, KCRW, WEXT, WCNR... “[Sunshine] is me rapping between choruses of a sample of [John Denver’s] Video now past 8 million views Mutual Friends in stores now! voice. I was surprised to hear that the John Denver estate was really stoked about US tour finishing this week: 3/27 Philadelphia, 3/28 Vienna, 3/29 NYC the way I used the sample.” – Mike Video online now More touring coming The Lone Bellow Sons of Fathers “You Never Need Nobody” “Roots & Vine” BDS New & Active! Indicator 22*! 17 performances at SXSW! New: KCLC, WOCM, KSMF, WHRV ON: KINK, KRSH, WZEW, WTMD, WEXT, New: KUTX, WBJB, WNTI, WFIT ON: WXRT, WXRV, SiriusXM, WXPK, WRLT, KPIG, SiriusXM Loft, KSMT, Music Choice, KMTN, WNRN, WYCE, KROK, KOHO... WZEW, WNCS, WFUV, WXPN, WEHM, KPND, KCSN, KRSH, WCOO, WFPK... Burning Days in stores Taped World Cafe Big Austin Chronicle feature People Magazine’s #3 album of the year so far Playing Non-Comm “I certainly hope this hook-filled delight doesn’t get lost in the deluge. I Instantly Paste review: 9.4/10 Over 8,000 sold in one day through Amazon added three tracks and our listeners are responding.”- Mike Marrone, SiriusXM Loft They Might Be Giants Richard Thompson “Lost My Mind” “Good Things Happen To Bad People” The first single from Nanobots, in stores and going for adds now BDS Indicator 26*! FMQB Public #5!! Electric in stores now New: WEVL ON: WFPK, WYMS, WCNR, WYCE, WBJB, KNBA, Already ON: WXPN, WFPK, WFUV, KUTX, SiriusXM Loft, KRSH, KPIG, WFIV, KCLC, KMTN, WOCM, WNRN, KDHX, KEXP, WVMP... WDST, WNKU, WEXT, WKZE, WYEP, KBAC, KFMU, KSPN, KOHO... On tour now: 4/3&4 Boston, 4/5 Philadelphia, 4/6 Baltimore, 4/7 Touring right now with & Rodney Crowell Richmond, 4/9 Charlottesville, 4/10 Carrboro, 4/11 Charleston... More tour dates and songwriter workshiop coming soon Martin Harley “Cardboard King” “Blues Can’t Even Find Me” The second single from Mojo Fix, going for official adds now New: WBSD ON: KPIG, KTAO, KBAC, WCBE, Music Choice, KOHO, WVMP, Available for download via All Access and my Dropbox folder WJCU, WMWV, WFIV, DMX Adult Alt, WKZE, KDBB, KFMU, KSPN, KMTN... Already on KSMT, WVMP, KFMU, KSPN, WCBE, WFIV, KRSH, KTAO... Great performances at Sunset Sessions and SXSW Opened for ZZ Ward and Delta Rae’s entire tour Full cd on your desk Tour dates coming in July: 7/6 Portland OR, 7/16 Grants Pass OR, Martin will be back for more US dates later this spring 7/18 Boise ID, 7/23 Aspen CO, 7/28 Lincoln NE, 7/30 Iowa City IA Night Beds Alpha Rev “Ramona” “Sing Loud” BDS Indicator #23! FMQB Public #20! Country Sleep in stores now BDS Monitored 13*! Indicator #10!! Extensive tour going on now ON: SiriusXM Spectrum & Loft, KRSH, WZEW, WFUV, KCSN, KUTX, KXT, New: WMMM, KRVO... ON: KTCZ, KBCO, KGSR, WXRV, KINK, KPRI, WCLZ, KCMP, KEXP, KTBG, WYEP, WTMD, WEHM, KCLC, KFMU, KSPN, WDST... WNCS, WQKL, WZEW, WCOO, KRVB, KRSH, KPND, KCKC, KCSN, KXT, WTMD... Has appeared on Fallon and Rachael Ray, more tv coming soon Full cd Bloom in stores now, terrific press Video online now NPR Tiny Desk Concert video online now More tour dates coming Check out the Southwest Airlines inflight performance on our site Max Gomez Walk The Moon “Run From You” “Tightrope” New: WCOO, KCSN, WCNR, KOHO... ON: WXRV, KPND, KRSH, KTHX, BDS Monitored #22! Indicator 15*! Completed their sold out US tour WZEW, KPIG, WVMP, WNKU, WEVL, KSMT, KMTN... Video online now ON: KBCO, KFOG, KTCZ, WXRV, WTTS, WMMM, WXPK, KPRI, Toured in Feb with & and WRLT, WCLZ, KCKC, WQKL, WNCS, KTHX, WCOO, WZEW... “Rule The World stirs into the roots-tinged folk brew an improb- Tightrope ep at retail now and acoustic version now on PlayMPE able combination of pop hooks and bluesy grit.” - Knoxville.com Played VH1 Big Morning Buzz See the official video on our site The Mavericks Marie Miller “Come Unto Me” “You’re Not Alone” FMQB Public 30*! New: KXCI, WDIY ON: WFUV, KCSN, KRSH, WEHM, WTMD, “As if Regina Spektor grew up on bluegrass” - Amazon Great at SXSW KUTX, KSUT, WDST, WNKU, KBAC, WNCW, WYEP, WUKY, KDHX, WMNF... On tour Over 100K downloads New: WOCM ON: KCSN, WCOO, WCNR, “A slithering, seductive rock & roll romp that features what could be WWCT, WJCU, KCLC, WCBE, KMTN, WFIV, WBJB, KTAO, KFMU, the most lascivious solo you’ll hear all year – to say nothing KSPN, WYSO... Starbucks Featured Artist program this month of the blistering trumpet that closes the track.” - RollingStone.com Official video launched online at CMT/VH1 Tour dates coming Listen to everything and find out more at www.rightarmresource.com as well as facebook.com/rightarmresource or twitter.com/rightarmjesse Get up to speed on Patty Griffin’s American Kid New West Records is proud to announce that Patty Griffin will release her new album, American Kid, on May 7. The album, co-produced by Griffin and Craig Ross, is her seventh and first for New West. It is her first album of mainly new material since the acclaimed Children Running Through in 2007. In between then and now, she made the Grammy Award-winning in 2010 and became a member of alongside Robert Plant. American Kid, much of which Griffin says “was written to honor my father,” returns to typical Patty Griffin territory, which is to say that it features a group of remarkably power- ful, personal and unpredictable songs arranged and performed in a style that doesn’t entirely repeat anything she’s done on her previous while drawing on all of them. Yet Griffin’s catalog is among the most unified in modern popular music, because her singing is as unmistakable and inimitable as her songwriting. Griffin has lived in Austin and recorded either in Austin and Nashville throughout her career (she released her first album, , in 1996) but American Kid is her first album whose music sounds stylistically rooted in Americana. “It was recorded in Memphis,” Griffin says, and adds with a quick laugh, “Part of the reason was the chance to get away from what I’d been doing.” The key to that was working with North Mississippi Allstars guitarist Luther Dickinson and drummer Cody Dickinson. The Dickinsons had played acoustic sets opening for Band of Joy and Luther gave Patty lessons on . “With the Dickinsons, you’re constantly see- ing people who work to get away from what they’re used to.” Co-producer Ross, perhaps best known for his work with Lisa Germano as well as his own critically acclaimed solo albums, is also responsible for the production of an earlier Griffin collection (2004’s Impossible Dream). Griffin said she chose Ross because of his ability, as she describes it, “to get the ghost out of the machine.” Ross plays -- usually guitar but also bass, mandolin, baritone, om- nichord and organ -- on all but two tracks on the album. The other prominent musical contributor, appearing on eight of the twelve tracks, is guitarist , who has played on just about every Patty Griffin recording since , and produced some of them. Long-time friend and sound engineer, Roy Taylor helps out once again on American Kid, and Plant sings on three songs. The album’s lyrical focal point is Patty’s father, a high school science teacher who fought in World War II, lost his father young and his mother almost immediately after he returned from the war, lived for a time in a Trappist monastery, raised seven children, bought Patty’s Sgt. Pepper for her birthday and changed her life. Mr. Griffin’s impending death sparked the songs. But these aren’t songs about death, even though American Kid features ample reference to mortality. American Kid is thematic, not a concept album. Beth Hart is getting stellar raves for Bang Bang Boom Boom “Beth Hart has lived a thousand lives, it seems, from her beginnings as a Star Search stand out, to bottoming out on drugs, to re- bounding again in a second-act triumph that included her terrific collaboration last year with Joe Bonamassa. With Bang Bang Boom Boom, you get a sense not just of where Hart has come from, but where she’s going. Over the course of 11 originals, Hart takes in every element of her talent, but also every element of her story. It is, quite simply, a tour de force. The album begins, quite simply, in the bottom of a brown bottle, with Hart inhabiting the brave but broken majesty of Billie Holiday. “Baddest Blues” completely lives up to its title, sounding like the blackest part of night. The title track then bursts out like a dirtier, more dangerous kind of Adele song — suggesting more completely the yin and yang of this still-emerging star’s vocal sweep. Hart’s just getting started. “Better Man” taps into the kind of bawdy forcefulness that marked Koko Taylor’s best straightening-out- her-man stuff. Then, just like that, “Caught in the Rain” settles into this ruminative place, but as Hart moves from a harrowing whisper into a passion-filled stoicism, she bridges the two sentiments — ending up somewhere in between throwing the sumbitch out and a tender-hearted understanding of his every-day frailties. There’s “Swing My Thing Around” and “Spirit of God,” these brawny, gospel-filled jazz numbers; and “With You Every Day” and “Through the Window of My Mind,” these soaring R&B anthems. “There In Your Heart,” a haunting -driven number, may be her moment of rawest emotion — but then Hart catches a nasty little groove on “The Ugliest House on the Block,” and all of that hurt is forgotten. Finally, there’s “Everything Must Change,” a song that doesn’t so much tie up all of the loose ends on Bang Bang Boom Boom, as re- iterate all over again the startling range that Hart possesses. It is, at first, just another vehicle for her deeply touching, damaged-goods vibrato, but then Hart elevates her voice — elevates everything — on the line: “Where is all the love?” From there, every part of her story, all of the sad junkie turns and the romantic dead ends and the promises (career and otherwise) that seemed like they might never came true, seem to finally be behind her. Hart emerges in this song, as she has in life, stronger for her scars — and the track sends Bang Bang Boom Boom out with a bound- less sense of hopefulness. There is little Hart can’t do as a vocalist, and she’s finally getting a chance to prove it.” - SomethingElseReviews.com Coming up: 4/15: Meat Puppets “Down”... 4/22: San Cisco “Awkward”... 4/29: Matt Nathanson “Mission Bells” (already BDS Monitored 26* and Most Added with lots of early adds at KFOG, KTCZ, KBCO, KGSR, CIDR, WMMM, WXRV, WNCS, KRVB, KPRI, WQKL, WCLZ, KTHX, WCNR and more) RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 4/3/13