RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 10/12/2011 Ben Lee “Get Used To It” The first single from Deeper Into Dream, in stores and going for adds now! Live dates: 10/17 Philadelphia, 10/18 LA Added early: WEHM, KBAC, WWCT, WYCE, WBJB, WBSD, WHRV Lots of great press already “Deeper Into Dream shows incredible growth in Lee and an exciting new direction to his usual style.” - Paste Magazine Peter Gabriel - New Blood (album) In stores now! Most added! Already on Sirius Spectrum, WFUV, KCMP, WVMP, KOZT, WFIV, KSUT, KFMG, KLCC... Radio edits of “Red Rain” and “Rhythm Of The Heat” available on PlayMPE now An amazing take on his hits Tons of amazing press already! Companion live DVD also out October 24 Full cd on your desk now Graffiti 6 “Free” BDS Monitored #1 Most Added! First official week: KINK, WCLZ, KRVB, WNWV, KRSH, WEHM, KKXT, WJCU, KCLC... Early: KBCO, KCSN, WEXT, DMX Adult Alternative, KROK, WVMP, KSLU EP available now, full cd in January EP features many stripped down tracks One of the top-scoring tracks at the Rate-A-Record in Boulder Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa “Well, Well” Will Dailey & The Rivals “Counting On Karma” FMQB Tracks 38*! Public 34*! New: WXPN, KPND, WKZE, KYSL, KLCC, WSGE From their self-titled album, in stores Single on PlayMPE, full coming ON: SiriusXM Loft, KRSH, KCSN, WFPK, WFIV, WDST, WTMD, WEXT, WMVY, Already added at: KROK, WCBE, WTMD, WFIV, KCLC, WSGE WCBE, KMTN, KFMU, KSPN, KOZT, WJCU... Don’t Explain in stores now! Great in Boulder! A two-time winner at the Boston Music Awards Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds “If I Had A Gun” Blind Pilot “We Are The Tide” BDS Indicator Debut 23*! New: WWCT, WUSM ON: KGSR, Sirius, WXPK, FMQB Public Debut 50*! New: KMTN, WYEP, WAPS, WSGE, KDTR WFUV, KCMP, WCOO, KTHX, KCSN, WYEP, DMX AA, WOCM, WNRN, WEXT... ON: KINK, KCSN, WFUV, WTMD, WEHM, WDST, WFPK, KEXP, KSMT, DMX... Self-titled album in stores 11/8 Letterman 11/10 US tour in November HUGE sales! National tour including Brett Dennen dates going on now Mike Doughty “Na Na Nothing” Julian Velard “Love Again For The First Time” Mediabase Debut 39*! BDS #5 New & Active! Indicator 7*! New: WYMS, WGWG Going for adds now! Already on: KBAC, WMVY, WFIV, WCBE, KVNF, WSGE ON: WXRV, WXPK, WRNX, WCOO, KPND, KCMP, WFUV, KUT, WEHM, KCSN, From the album Mr. Saturday Night Tour dates with Sharon Little coming up WYEP, WCNR, XM Loft... Tour starts next week Great advance press of his book Very well reviewed - “Instantly hummable pop tunes” - BabySue.com The Kooks “Junk Of The Heart” Ben Harper “Don’t Give Up On Me Now” BDS Monitored 17*! Indicator 6*! New: WRLT, Acoustic Cafe, WNKU, WYCE... BDS Indicator 24*! ON: WCOO, KRSH, KCSN, WKZE, KMTN, KTBG, WEXT, WFIV, ON: WXRT, KFOG, KGSR, KMTT, WXRV, KINK, WTTS, Sirius, WXPK, KPRI, WMMM, KNBA, KMMS, WMVY, WERS, WMWV, KDBB, KROK, KYSL, KLRR, WOCM... WQKL, WRNR, WRNX, KRVB, KPND, WEHM... US tour in November & December Just finished another run of US dates Letterman performance on our site The Nightwatchman (Tom Morello) “Black Spartacus Heart Attack Machine” The Duke & The King “Shaky” World Wide Rebel Songs in stores now New: KUT, WSYC ON: KBAC, Featuring Simon Felice of The Felice Brothers ON: WYEP, WDST, WEXT, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT, WFIV, KOZT, WNCW, WNKU, WYCE, WERS, KXCI... KHUM, WBJB, WKZE, KSMT, WFIV, WNCW, KNBA, WNRN, WCBE, KRCC... “Evocatively expands on his sonic fingerprint” - LA Times Tons of great press Lots of UK love: UNCUT - 4 stars, MOJO - 4 stars, UK Mail on Sunday: 5 stars Bob Schneider “Honeypot” Jackson Browne “You Know The Night” BDS Monitored 29*! New: WXRV ON: KGSR, WQKL, WNWV, WCLZ, From Note Of Hope: A Celebration of Woody Guthrie, in stores now! WRNX, KTHX, WZEW, WCOO, KRSH, KPND, KXT, WCNR, KCSN, DMX, WMVY, ON: WXPN, WFUV, KCSN, XM Loft, WCNR, WYCE, KOZT, WMVY, WOCM, WVMP... Music Choice, KMTN, WEXT... More tour dates added Video online now Killer lineup: Madeleine Peyroux, Tom Morello, Michael Franti, Ani DiFranco... Chadwick Stokes “Coffee And Wine” Burlap To Cashmere “Build A Wall” From Dispatch and State Radio Features Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars FMQB Public #38! Great in Boulder! ON: WXPK, KCSN, WFPK, New: WXRV, KCLC, MSPR ON: KRSH, WCBE, KMTN, KROK, WFIV, KSPN, KSMT, WNRN, WJCU, WBJB, WVMP, KMTN, KFMU, KSPN, DMX, WYCE, KFMU, WUIN, WYCE, WOCM, DMX, WUMB, KFMG, KXCI, WFHB, WBSD... KCLC, WCBE, WBSD, KXCI, WUSM... In stores and on tour now Paste offers up their take on Peter Gabriel’s New Blood “I think music has a natural tendency—or any sort of creative thing—to evolve, and although I guess in the digital world, you can just press play and things will sound exactly the same, I don’t think that’s very interesting to people. I think it’s more interesting when it does change and can go wrong.” – Peter Gabriel, from our Paste interview. Musicians are a peculiar, finicky type—always trying to box themselves in, always reacting (often in complete opposition) against the last artistic move they just made. And there’s no better example than Peter Gabriel, one of pop music’s most in- novative and, sadly, underrated chameleons. Even at his most commercially omnipresent (Hits, like “Sledgehammer” and “Big Time,” positively sprouted from his 1986 pop landmark, So), Gabriel’s never been one for spoon-feeding his euphoria. He’s never made the same musical move twice—compare the stark, processed synth-scapes of 1982’s Security with the slick, radio-friendly art-pop of So, and it’s difficult (particularly for a casual fan) to hear the artistic parallels. With great art comes great risk, and Gabriel has based his career around that notion. With New Blood, a sequel of sorts to his 2010 orchestral song-swap project, Scratch My Back, Gabriel once again works with arranger John Metcalfe, utilizing only the colors and textures of a large-scale orchestra without the aid of guitars, synthesizers, or a traditional rhythm section. After the release of Scratch My Back, with international tour dates looming in the distance, Gabriel realized he needed more music to flesh out a full-length concert, so he took the logical next step— peering into the deep expanses of his discography and seeing what tracks would translate well to an orchestral setting, consciously avoiding his biggest hits along the way. No, there is no “Sledgehammer” here. No “Games Without Frontiers.” No “Shock the Monkey” (although I would pay serious money to hear that one). New Blood is crafted as, you know, a legitimate full-length album—one where the pieces are designed to hang together, with stand-outs and singles set aside in favor of musical and thematic unity. Despite the fact that we’ve all heard these songs before, Gabriel and Metcalfe have achieved nothing short of a miracle reinvention: Nothing feels even remotely stale, and many of these tracks manage to actually improve upon their original counterparts—no small feat, considering the fact that these are some of the finest songs ever written. Gabriel’s in excellent voice throughout, sweeping majestically to his sweet-spot falsetto without blinking an eye, balanced out by the gravelly bass range he’s nuanced over his past few studio albums. His daughter Melanie, now a long-standing live vocal harmo- nizer, brings her gentle, Kate Bush-ish presence to a number of tracks, nailing her duet with daddy in the now vastly improved “Downside Up” and elsewhere adding lovely, unobtrusive texture. But for every reassuring comfort, there’s a risky, rewarding reinterpretation. Norwegian songwriter Ane Brun—who, along with Melanie, added backing vocals at Gabriel’s recent New Blood shows—takes a vocal spotlight on “Don’t Give Up,” duetting with Gabriel on the once gospel-tinged belter. The original So version featured the airy, alien Kate Bush playing the female role (cemented even further the pop music time capsule with a cheesy/romantic music video featuring Gabriel and Bush holding hands and staring wide-eyed at one another). For diehards, Bush’s role is a void no vocalist has been able to properly fill (though Paula Cole sure did her damnedest during the early ‘90s Us tour), and Brun’s interpreta- tion, with its rapid-fire vibrato and unusual phrasing, promises to rub many fans the wrong way. Give it a few spins, though, and Brun’s polarizing rendition slowly starts to make sense. Another of Gabriel’s bold stances happens in the previously funky “Digging in the Dirt,” which is now minimal and drained of its exotic strut. Most shocking is the chorus, which now features fewer dramatic chord changes and a simplified melody that never feels half as cathartic. It’s the only musical change that somehow feels like a compromise. Everything else is sublime, the colors of the orchestra heightening every emotion. The original Security version of “The Rhythm of the Heat” climaxes in a flame of circling African percussion; this New Blood take translates the rhythms over to string instruments, sawing and sweating toward a chaos of blinding testosterone. “San Jacinto” (another Security stun- ner) was formerly a quiet revelation that never fully exploded, even when it peaked in a whirlwind of synthesized strings and electronic drums. Here, that emotion so gloriously teased is brought swimming, transcendently, to the surface. “I hold the light!” Gabriel erupts amid a hypnotic symphonic flood of pizzacatto strings and fluttering flutes. Three decades have passed, yet you’re hearing it for the very first time.” - Paste, 10/11/11, Rating: 9.0 out of 10 (“Phenomenal”) Catching up with the critics about Ben Lee’s Deeper Into Dream “Lee continues to release engaging, if slightly more introspective, work.” - American Songwriter “For those looking for more in his work, Deeper Into Dream shows incredible growth in Lee and an exciting new direction to his usual style.” - Paste “His most personal and darkest album to date, which, inspired by three years of dream analysis therapy, attempts to understand the power of the unconscious mind. It’s an ambitious concept that, for the most part, Lee pulls off with ease” - AllMusic Keep up with us at rightarmresource.com and facebook.com/rightarmresource RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 10/12/11