RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 4/27/2011 Ziggy Marley “Forward To Love” Eliza Doolittle “Skinny Genes” #1 Most Added! New: KPND, KRSH, WFIV, KTBG, WKSUT, WVMP, Her self-titled album is on your desk now Terrific press all over KMTN, WMVY, KOHO, KDBB, WOCM, KNBA, KTAO, KSPN, KFMU... New: WEXT, WNRN, KDNK, KFAN, KSLU, WNTI, WYSO Early adds: WYMS, KYSL, WKZE, KRVM, KFMG, KBAC, WAPS... Leno already, Coachella, LA Times, NY Post, Nylon, NPR... Produced by Don Was Ziggy’s Marijuanaman comic in stores Video online World Cafe aired People Magazine Artist To Watch On tour now! The new album Wild And Free in stores June 17 “Feels like a chill hang with Amy Winehouse’s easygoing sister” - InStyle Meat Puppets “Shave It” Ray Lamontagne & The Pariah Dogs “Repo Man” First week adds at: KCMP, KRCL, KRCC, KSMT, WOCM, KDEC BDS Monitored #1 Most Added! New: KINK, WTTS, KRVB, WNCS, Full cd Lollipop in stores now Early: WBJB, KBAC, KUT, WFIV WCLZ, KPRI, WCOO, KRSH, WYEP, WEHM, KZMV, WVOD, KSPN... Great reviews! Pitchfork: “Stick in your head tunefulness” ON: Sirius, WNWV, WXPK, KPND, WDST, WYMS, WVMP, WEXT, KTBG Tour dates announced through June Other tracks to check Tour dates starts May 24 Letterman May 11, VH1 Storytellers in June out on the album: “Hour Of The Idiot” and “Damn Thing” The follow up to the #1 Beg Steal or Borrow and the top 5 For The Summer Brian Wright “Striking Matches” Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers “Heaven On A Paper Plate” New: WJCU, WUSM ON: KSMT, KZMV, WCBE, KROK, MPR, MSPR Unida Cantina sold almost 5K first wk - #2 Heatseekers, #116 Top 200! From his Sugar Hill album House On Fire Full band mix on PlayMPE New: KSLU ON: WFIV, KNBA, WBJB, WOCM, WYCE, KDNK, WUSM... “I’m somewhere between Woody Guthrie and Velvet Underground” - Brian “The Bruce Springsteen of the Southwest” - Asbury Park Press In stores! Ben Harper “Rock N Roll Is Free” Blame Sally “Living Without You” BDS Monitored #2 New & Active! Indicator 3*!! New: WCNR, WFPK New: WNRN, WUSM ON: WVMP, WFIV, WYCE, WKZE, KBAC, WCBE, WFHB, ON: Sirius, WXPK, WNWV, KTHX, WZEW, KRSH, KPND, WCLZ, WCOO, KLCC, WSGE, KDNK, WERU, MPR, WRRW, KVNF Preview video on our site WXPN, WEHM... In stores 5/17 Playing NON-COMM! Letterman 5/18 In stores Tuesday! Full cd on your desk, single leads off the new TOTA Peter Bjorn and John “Second Chance” Los Lonely Boys “Fly Away” FMQB Public 14*! US tour starts this week New: WNRN, KUWR BDS Indicator 19*! FMQB Public 20*! ON: KGSR, KPRI, KPND, WUIN, ON: WFUV, KCMP, KEXP, KCRW, WXPN, KUT, WTMD, WYEP, WYMS, WAPS, WMVY, WTYD, WVOD, KVSF, KTBG, WFIV, KLRR, WYEP, WYMS... WEHM, WFPK... Major Bud Lime tv campaign just started running Rockpango in stores now - terrific sales! On tour all year Steve Earle “Every Part Of Me” Bob Schneider “Let The Light In” FMQB Public 23*! New: KOZT, KHUM, WOCM, WRSI, KTAO, WFHB BDS Monitored 22*! Indicator 15*! ON: KGSR, WRNX, Sirius, KRVB, ON: KPIG, WFUV, KEXP, WFIV, WDST, KUT, WNKU, WMVY, WKZE, WVMP, KBAC... WNWV, WQKL, WCLZ, WEHM, WFUV, KUT, KRSH, KPND, WZEW, WCOO... Produced by T-Bone Burnett In store performances in May, tour in June A Perfect Day in stores now, great sales and press! On tour now Joe Bonamassa “Dust Bowl” Jim Bianco “Sinners” BDS Indicator 28*! FMQB Tracks 32*! New: WUIN ON: WXPN, KPND, Switched singles to this anthem of debauchery by popular demand! WTMD, WFPK, KPIG, KMTN, KSPN, WMVY, KOZT, KLRR, KOHO, KVSF, ON: KCRW, DMX, WFIV, KRSH, KROK, KVNF, MSPR, WCBE, MPBC, WSGE... WEXT, WFIV, KYSL, WYCE, WJCU... In stores! Continues to sell out shows Great press - ask about a free Loudmouth album download for your listeners Raphael Saadiq “Stone Rollin’” Nicole Atkins “Cry Cry Cry” Playing at NON-COMM! Kimmel 5/12 ON: KINK, KGSR, WNWV, New: WNWV BDS Indicator #23! Killer raves from programmers WRNR, KPND, WMVY, WFUV, WXPN, WFPK, KCMP, WEHM... ON: WXPK, KEZE, WCLZ, WZEW, KPND, KRSH, WCOO, KDBB, WEHM, KCLC, Official video online In stores 5/10 Fantastic press all over WDST, WFUV, WTMD... Stellar press, Black Keys & Avetts dates coming Richard Ashcroft “Are You Ready?” David Gray “Only The Wine” ON: Sirius, WRXP, KCMP, WTMD, WCNR, KMMS, WVOD, KFMU, KSPN, BDS Monitored 21*! ON: KBCO, KTCZ, Dave-FM, CIDR, WMMM, Sirius, WDST, WFIV, KSMT, KMTN, KZMV, WMWV, WEXT, WOCM, KSKI, KCLC... WRNX, KPRI, WNWV, KRVB, KEZE, WZEW, WCOO, KRSH, WCLZ... The United Nations Of Sound in stores now! Great set on Fallon Coming back to the US for another round of tour dates starting 6/28 Meat Puppets gain Globe-al acceptance Jim Bianco tells AntiMusic the “Meat Puppets have survived so many cycles of alternative rock that sobering story behind “Sinners” it’s worth giving the 31-year-old Jim Bianco is one of the most original cats on the music band a genre unto itself, one that scene today, so we are extra pleased to have Jim tells accounts for the trio’s seamless us about his new song “Sinners,” which comes from his combination of desert twang, psy- brand spanking new album, “Loudmouth.” Here is the chedelic musings, and garage-punk story: toughness. Brothers Cris and Curt “Songwriting is usually a process. It’s very rare for me Kirkwood resurrected the Puppets in that a song arrives all at once. It’s mostly a painstaking earnest five years ago after a couple operation consisting of a small but intense obsession of hiatuses, and have since been delivering solid new albums with a melody, or a song every two years. Drummer Shandon Sahm is on board for the topic, or both- and then latest Kirkwood broadside, “Lollipop,’’ and superbly supplies a dragged-out process of the rhythmic contours to the brothers’ funhouse-mirror per- attempting to twist, turn spective. Curt’s unperturbed vocal delivery runs like a thread and manipulate words, through the dozen tracks, even as songs shift and sway from syllables, meanings, mellow balladry to rocking lunacy. “Incomplete’’ launches the phases and imagery. album in a hazy, lysergic manner, though before too long, the But every so often, band ratchets up the energy with “Orange.’’ That sort of ebb there is a song that and flow is all over “Lollipop’’: The quaint rockabilly of “Baby just lands on your lap. Don’t’’ hits up against the harsh “Hour of the Idiot’’; the drowsy The melody falls from stoner in “Way That It Are’’ turns rampaging loon in “Vile.’’ the sky, the lyrics float Such friction produces sparks, and those sparks illuminate a down right after it, and wonderfully weirded-out perspective that positions Meat Pup- VIOLA! You’ve got pets as masters of surreality.” - The Boston Globe, April 19 2011 a song. No pain. No frustration. No twisting and manipulating. It just Steve Earle’s US tour dates reach comes to you and you’re done. My song ‘SINNERS’ did just that. just about Every Part of the country I was at a 10-day silent retreat ( ostensibly ‘retreating’ See him on the road with his full band this summer from drinking, smoking, talking sh*t, eating like sh*t, screwing strangers and partying with my idiot friends.) 5/3 Houston, TX - Instore 7/15 Atlanta, GA It was day 5 and the whole song just hit me. Boom. 5/4 Austin, TX - Instore 7/16 Somerset, KY I wrote the chorus first- then about 5 verses to follow. 5/5 Denver, CO - Instore 7/17 Bloomington, IN The most difficult part was, seeing that it was a silent 5/7 Seattle, WA - Instore 7/19 Chicago, IL retreat, I wasn’t allowed to sing. And because the silent 5/8 Portland, OR - Instore 7/22 Chautauqua, WI retreat required you not only to abstain from talking, 6/9 Seattle, WA 7/23 Minneapolis, MN but from writing too, there was no pen or paper any- 6/10 Portland, OR 7/26 Lexington, KY where. 6/11 Spokane, WA 7/27 Cincinnati, OH I sat and sang all the words in my head to a melody 6/13 Bozeman, MT 7/28 Columbus, OH that I hadn’t actually heard yet. I had to wait 5 days 6/16 Telluride, CO 7/30 Detroit, MI until I drove home, picked up the guitar and sang the 6/18 Missoula, MT 7/31 Kent, OH chorus out loud, figured out the chords underneath, 7/1 Eugene, OR 8/6 Ithaca, NY and ultimately finished the song. 7/6 Houston, TX 8/11 Tarrytown, NY The most ironic part is that, while on a retreat where I 7/7 Austin, TX 8/13-14 Alexandria, VA was abstaining from all things unhealthy, I wrote a song 7/9 Ft. Worth, TX 8/17 Boston, MA about drinking, smoking and screwing. 7/11 New Orleans, LA 8/18 Upper Darby, PA You can take the musician out of the lifestyle, but you 7/12 Mobile, AL 9/13 New York, NY can’t take the lifestyle out of the musician.” 7/14 Birmingham, AL 9/14 Brooklyn, NY -AntiMusic, April 14 2011 Upcoming: 5/9: The Gaddabouts “Good Day”... 5/16: Hey Rosetta! “Yer Spring”... and more to come Listen to everything and find out more at www.rightarmresource.com as well as facebook.com/rightarmresource or twitter.com/rightarmjesse RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 4/27/11