RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 7/16/2014 “Every Morning” The first single from Tied To A Star, going for adds on Monday, available in stores August 26 Added early at WFUV, SiriusXM Loft, WERS, KSMT, KDEC and WHRV Available on PlayMPE Produced by Mascis, the features guest appearances from ’s Chan Marshall, Black Heart Procession’s Pall Jenkins, Mark Mulcahy and Ken Maiuri from Young@Heart Chorus Named one of ’s 100 Greatest Guitarists Extensive tour begins in September - see page 3 Kings of Leon “Family Tree” The fourth single from Mechanical Bull New: WVOD, KBAC, WAPS Already on: WRLT, WFPK, KUTX, KCSN, KPND, WYMS, KSMT, WLCE, WUIN, WFIV, WMWV, KMMS, KROK, KNBA and more Performing on GMA on July 25 Headlining tour this summer: 7/31 St. Louis, 8/1 Detroit, 8/3 Chicago (headlining ), 8/7 Hartford, 8/9 , 8/10 Saratoga Springs, 8/13 Wantagh NY, 8/15 Bristow VA, 8/16 Bethel NY, 8/19 Darien NY, 8/20 Cleveland, 8/22 Cincinnati, 8/23 Indianapolis and more through 10/5 The Mastersons “Good Luck Charm” Full cd Good Luck Charm in stores and on your desk now New: KPIG, KSMF Already on: WNKU, WCBE, WEXT, KDHX, WNCW, WYCE, WBJB, WFHB,WUMB, KSUT, WFIV, WOCM, MSPR, WDVX, KDNK, KVNF... “They are poised to be one of Austin’s breakout acts of 2014” - Austin American Statesman All of the songs were co-written by Chris and Eleanor, giving the material added depth as well as a power- ful collective lyrical identity that’s matched by their expressive harmonies. Justin Currie tour in September Ray LaMontagne “Drive-In Movies” Mediabase 24*, BDS 20*, Indicator #1 already!! New: KBCO, WNCS, KTHX, Music Choice, KLRR, WZLO, KRML, WTYD Already on: WXRT, WXRV, KPRI, WRLT, WMMM, WRNR, WEZZ, KPND, WCLZ, WFUV, KCMP, Sirius Spectrum, WCOO, WTMD, WYMS, KCSN, KXT, WERS, KRSH, WYEP, KRSI, WJCU, WNKU, WVOD, WWCT, KTAO, KTBG, WEHM, KYSL... See Ray headline The Fox in Boulder Extensive tour now: 7/16 Charleston, 7/18 Alpharetta, 7/19 Birmingham, 7/20 Forecastle (Louisville), 7/22 Interlochen, 7/23 Grand Rapids, 7/25 Nashville, 7/26 Raleigh, 7/27 Floydfest.... “Brill Bruisers” The title track from their upcoming album, in stores August 26 BDS Indicator Debut 27*, FMQB Tracks Debut 35*, Public 23*! New: KHUM ON: WFUV, WXPN, KCSN, KCMP, KUTX, KXT, WERS, WYEP, WEHM, WNRN, WYMS, WFPK, WTMD, KTBG, WFIV, KDHX, WBJB, WOCM, KUNC, KBAC, WDST, WCBE, WNKU, KSMT, WMVY, KOHO, KCLC, KROK... “The song is pretty much everything you want from the New Pornographers, which means it’s fantastic.” - Stereogum Extensive touring in October and November Fun interactive artwork listening player on our site now Jamie Scott “My Hurricane” The title track from his upcoming solo album Mediabase 41*, BDS New & Active, FMQB Tracks Debut 49*! New: Music Choice ON: WXRV, KRVB, WMMM, WCLZ, WZEW, WEHM, WEZZ, KPND, KXT, KRSH, WCBE, KFMU, KSPN, WFIV, KBAC, WOCM, WAPS, KSKI, KDEC Jamie is also the frontman for Graffiti6 and has written countless hits for other artists On tour this summer with One Republic: 8/13 Raleigh, 8/14 Charlotte, 8/16 Tampa, 8/17 West Palm Beach, 8/19 Atlanta, 8/21 New Orleans, 8/22 The Woodlands, 8/23 Austin, 8/25 San Antonio, 8/26 Dallas, 8/28 Tulsa Stu Larsen “Thirteen Sad Farewells” The first single from Vagabond, on your desk now and in stores now New this week: WEXT Already added at: WNKU, WNRN, WBJB, WCBE, KSPN, KFMU, WFIV, WJCU, WOCM, KRVM, MSPR, KVNF, WERU, KFMG, WUTC, WUSM, KSMF Stu was the #2 selling singer- in Australia without a label or managment See him opening all of the US dates for Passenger, kicking off in Atlanta on August 2 and going through September 14 “Stu’s Vagabond heart just needs a little bit of your love and once you hear him sing, that’s the easiest gift to give of all.” - FolkRadio UK No Sinner Magic! “Boo Hoo Hoo” “Rude” The first single from Boo Hoo Hoo, in stores and on your desk now Massive single sales and now the full cd is available too! New: WCNR, WVOD ON: WZEW, KPND, KRSH, WVMP, KTAO, KROK, WJCU, WEXT, Mediabase 16*, BDS 18*, Indicator #20, top 3 HAC & Top 40, top 20 Alt WNKU, KBAC, WCBE, WOCM, KOHO, KNBA, WUIN, WBJB, KUNC, WFIV, KPIG... This is THE reaction song of the summer at multiple formats Recent radio promo run w/killer sessions at WFPK, WNKU, ON: KGSR, CIDR, KBCO, KINK, KPRI, WMMM, WXPK, WWNU... WEXT, WJCU, WCBE and more More dates coming up soon Video nearing 40 million views! Just played on The Tonight Show Wakey!Wakey! Echo & The Bunnymen “Wake Up (Lily, I Love You...)” “Holy Moses” The first single from Salvation, in stores Tuesday and on your desk now The first single from Metortites, in stores now Already added at: ON: WVOD, WBSD, MSPR, WOCM, WFIV, WCBE “A voice so striking it KCSN, WFPK, WBJB, WDST, WVOD, WFIV, WOCM, KSKI, KROK, resonates around the room galvanising everybody within earshot” - NME KDHX, KDEC, KRCC, KSLU, KDBB, WFIT, WFHB, WYCE, WNTI.. Played an extensive tour in June and is getting ready for additional US Tour: 8/1 LA, 8/2 SF, 8/4 Portland, 8/6 Seattle, 8/9 Minneapolis, 8/11 long runs in September and October Great reviews are kicking in Detroit, 8/14 Boston, 8/15-16 NYC, 8/18 Silver Spring, 8/19 Philadelphia Nikki Lane Bernhoft “Right Time” “Come Around” Mediabase 48*, BDS Indicator 17*, FMQB Tracks 31*, Public 6*! The first single from Islander, in stores now Already on: WXRV, WRLT, New: KCSN, WCOO, WVMP ON: WRLT, KRSH, WFUV, KCMP, KUTX, KPND, WEZZ, KROK, WFIV, KSMT, WOCM, KCLC, WCBE, Music Choice... WYMS, KEXP, SiriusXM Loft, WCNR, WEZZ, KXT, WEXT, WYEP, KTBG, WFIV, Played on Conan and VH1 Big Morning Buzz already, great press KPIG, WUIN, WYCE, WNKU, KFMU, KSPN, WNRN, WMSR, WVOD, WMWV... Single sales were up over 500% off of his performance on Conan Video online now Fantastic press in The Boston Globe and more Killer promo run at radio Full cd just landing on your desk Vampire Weekend Cage The Elephant “Step” “Take It Or Leave It” FMQB Tracks #46 Album sales nearing gold! ON: WXRV, KINK, WRLT, The second single from Melophobia Already top 10 at Alternative! WERS, WCOO, WRSI, KRSH, WZEW, WEZZ, WCNR, WWNU, KFMU, KSPN, Mediabase 31*, BDS New & Active, Indicator 5*, FMQB Tracks 19*! WVOD, KHUM, KROK, WFIV, KCLC, KOHO, KMMS, KSMT, WMSR, KLRR... ON: KINK, WTTS, WRLT, KPND, KPRI, WZEW, WMMM, WCOO, WWNU, WEHM, Just finished a national tour with The Cults, UK festivals coming up KCSN, WERS, WYMS, KRSH, WVOD, WCNR, KSMT, WEZZ, WWCT, WNRN... Big show at the Hollywood Bowl announced for September 28 Summer festivals then touring this fall with The Black Keys The Wind & The Wave Passenger “With Your Two Hands” “Scare Away The Dark” Mediabase #37, BDS Indicator 12*! New: WAPS ON: WRLT, WMMM, WNCS, Mediabase 27*, BDS 28*! New: WZEW Extensive US tour in August WCLZ, KCSN, KUTX, KPND, WCOO, WWNU, KRSH, KTHX, WYMS, WCNR ON: KBCO, KINK, KGSR, CIDR, WXRV, KRVB, WRLT, WMMM, WEHM, WMSR, WVMP, WNKU, KBAC, KRML, KSMT, WUIN, WEZZ, Music KPRI, WCLZ, WQKL, WNCS, WCOO, KCSN, KPND, WWNU... Choice, KFMU, KSPN... Lyric video online From The Wreckage coming 8/5 Premiered it with a performance on The Tonight Show - see our site Great licensing already Just finished touring with Jamestown Revival New cd Whispers in stores and on your desk now - fantastic sales! Johnnyswim Bleachers “Home” “” Already on: WXRT, KINK, KRSH, WCOO, KPND, WCNR, WCBE, WVMP, Currently #2 at Alt and building, Top 50 at HAC and crossing formats! KFMU, KSPN, WNKU, KRML, WZLO... Lots of tour dates coming up: New: WERS ON: KGSR, KBCO, KROK, WCNR, WJCU, WLCE, WFIV, 7/16 Cleveland, 7/17 Columbus, 7/19 Louisville (Forecastle), 7/24 Orlando, KMTN, KRML, WEZZ... Full album in stores now 7/25 Ponte Vedra, 7/26 Tampa, 7/27 Ft. Lauderdale, 7/31 Indianapolis, 8/2 On tour: 7/26 Buffalo, 8/2 Philadelphia, 8/3 Lollapalooza, 8/8 Outside Chicago, 8/3 Madison, 8/4 Minneapolis, 8/16 Philadelphia and many more Lands, 8/9 Redmond WA, 8/20 Indianapolis, 8/21 St. Louis, 8/22 KC... Listen to everything and find out more at www.rightarmresource.com as well as facebook.com/rightarmresource or twitter.com/rightarmjesse Join the mass of people who will be heading to the J Mascis shows 7/26 Carnation, WA 10/5 St. Louis, MO 10/18 Cambridge, MA 9/24 Hamden, CT 10/7 Lawrence, KS 11/7-9 Austin, TX 9/25 Philadelphia, PA 10/8 Omaha, NE 11/11 Phoenix, AZ 9/26 Baltimore, MD 10/9 Minneapolis, MN 11/12 San Diego, CA 9/27 Chapel Hill, NC 10/10 Madison, WI 11/13 Long Beach, CA 9/28 Asheville, NC 10/11 Chicago, IL 11/14 Los Angeles, CA 9/30 Birmingham, AL 10/13 Ann Arbor, MMI 11/15 , CA 10/1 Nashville, TN 10/14 Cleveland, OH 11/16 Sonoma, CA 10/2 Athens, GA 10/15 Pittsburgh, PA 11/19 Seattle, WA 10/3 Atlanta, GA 10/16 Washington, DC 11/20 Portland, OR 10/4 Louisville, KY 10/17 New York, NY 11/21-22 Denver, CO The Houston Chronicle catches up with The Mastersons “The Mastersons’ previous album was full of stories about broken characters on the run during trying times, but true to its title the new “Good Luck Charm” finds some warmth and radiance in the aftermath of that recording. The album repeatedly touches on themes of connectivity, fitting since singer/guitarist Chris Masterson and multi-instrumentalist Eleanor Whitmore are married. “There comes a time where, well, you can’t keep writing the same song over and over,” Masterson says. “So we ended up writing a couple of love songs. It was tough, we sort of avoided the fact that we were married and in a band together and we worried about it getting too .” “. lovey dovey,” Whitemore finishes. “Lovey dove,” Masterson says. “We were omitting part of our story. Relationships seem like such low-hanging fruit. But it’s part of our story. So we had a riff and started throwing lines around. And after an hour we had a nice airy and light pop song. We found ourselves kind of high-fiving each other.” “Nailed it,” says Whitmore. While the sound of “Good Luck Charm” has a sunnier tilt, the rudiments of the duo’s interaction remain in place. The harmonies are fluid and gor- geous, and the division of lead vocals feels natural. The instrumentation is impeccably played and efficient. Both Mastersons can peel off virtuosic solos, yet the playing on their records is efficient and restrained. The songs are rootsy but with a power-pop push. Whitmore and Masterson’s collaboration extends beyond their reinvention as a duo. Masterson is a Houston native, who started as a teenage guitar hotshot playing blues at local blues clubs and eventually took work as guitarist for Jack Ingram and Son Volt. Whitmore is from Denton and can dazzle on just about any stringed instrument. She and her sister Bonnie Whitmore began playing with their father as kids. Masterson produced Whitmore’s lovely 2008 album “Airplanes.” The two left Texas for New York and started the Mastersons. Finding time for the band has proved a challenge as both are full-time members of singer-songwriter Steve Earle’s band, The Dukes. Last Thursday they were in town playing with Earle. This weekend they return to play for the release of “Good Luck Charm,” parts of which were conceived “when we could steal away time between shows,” Whitmore says. Both Mastersons say the new album is the result of more symbiotic interplay than “Birds Fly South,” on which each member brought individual songs to the table. Both Masterson and Whitmore said band mates would sometimes stare slack jawed at some of the critiques they felt comfortable slinging at one another last time around. “I think we’re getting better at throwing ideas back and forth and not taking anything too personally,” Whitmore says. “I remember the first time we worked together, I said something pretty out of line.” “I had to leave the house, and she went around the neighborhood looking for me,” Masterson says. “We’ve grown up since then,” Whitmore says, laughing. “It can be hard to separate the working relationship from your other relationship, but it’s getting easier for us.” “Because it’s writing songs, it’s not as simple as just finishing each others sentences like other married couples,” Mastersons says. “But I’ll come up with a line and she’ll say, ‘Great,’ and maybe she’ll change one word. And I’ll think, ‘(Expletive) that’s much better. I think there’s been a evolution from ‘Birds’ to how we collaborate now.” That sense of shared experience informs the new record. Lines jump out of the record that suggest people finding ways to connect rather than pushing each other apart. Sure the album begins with the title track’s opening line “don’t it make you sad,” but even those words are informed by a need to relate. The song was written when the two returned to Austin from New York and found themselves in the company of old friends, all following the news of gubernato- rial candidate Wendy Davis’ famed filibuster to block new abortion restrictions in Texas. “The song wasn’t meant to be polarizing,” Whitmore says, “but it was meant to be galvanizing. To remind people that we can talk to each other.” On another, “Cautionary Tale,” Whitmore sings “we don’t talk much these days” as a plaintive request to fix broken lines of communication. “The last record had that broken character theme, and we were a little tired of it,” Whitmore says. “So we wanted to explore some other ideas. We’re both annoyed at how much time we spend on cell phones. We’ve taken them out of our bedroom.” “We leave them in the car when we go to dinner,” Masterson says. “It’s remarkable how quickly they can hijack a day,” says Whitmore. “It’s just another thing standing in the way of our ability to connect.” - The Houston Chronicle, 7/7/14 Coming up: 7/28: The Both “Volunteers of America”... 8/4: The Hold Steady “I Hope This Whole Thing Didn’t Frighten You,” Dry The River “Everlasting Light,” The Strumbellas “End Of An Era”... 8/11: Bastille “Flaws” RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 7/16/2014