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RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 10/3/2012 Mike Doughty “Country Roads” Dave Matthews Band “If Only” His take on the John Denver classic, featuring backing vocals by Rosanne Cash #1 Most Added! New: WNCS, WRNR, WQKL, KRSH, WXPK, KKXT... The Flip Is Another Honey, his covers album, hitting your desk now, in stores 11/6 Early: Sirius, WNCS, WEHM, WDST, KCSN, KFMU, KSPN, KMTN, WEHM... Early: WTYD, WWNU, WEHM, WFIV, WBJB, WOCM, KOHO, Music Choice, ACAFE... First band to have six straight albums debut at #1 in Soundscan, 266K first week! Good Old War “Better Weather” California Wives “Blood Red Youth” The new single from Come Back As Rain BDS Overall Most Added! Full cd Art History on your desk, edit on MPE On tour now with Stars New: WEXT, WVOD, KSPN, KFMU, WJCU, KMTN, KNBA, KDBB, KDEC “This could be the next buzz band everyone is talking about”- MOKB On US tour with Dispatch then Needtobreathe, Canada with Xavier Rudd New: WCNR, WUSM, WFIT ON: WNKU, WCBE, KCLC, KMTN, WFIV, WMWV... Ben Folds Five “Do It Anyway” Ben Sollee “Unfinished” BDS Indicator 10*! New: KRSH, WUIN, WWCT, KSUT, WYCE, KVNF... Full cd Half Made Man on your desk, edit on MPE New: KSMT, KCLC, KSUT, ON: WRNR, WXPK, WEHM, KCMP, WXPN, WFUV, WFPK, XM Loft, WYMS, WYEP, WCNR... KUWR, KDNK... ON: WFUV, WFPK, WNKU, WFIV, KTBG, WCBE, WKZE, WJCU, Huge sales and video views Just performed on the Colbert Report on Monday KNBA, WRSI, WUKY, KXCI, WNCW, KRCL, MPR... On tour through November Chris Robinson Brotherhood “Little Lizzie Mae” Elle King “Playing For Keeps” The first single from their brand new album The Magic Door, in stores now ON: WXPK, KUT, KCSN, KRSH, WCBE, WUIN, KMTN, KBAC, KCLC, KROK, New: WNCW, KAXE, KSMF ON: KYSL, KROK, KFMU, KSPN, KDBB, KNBA, KPIG, WFIV, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT... “Dangerously catchy” - Entertainment Weekly KMMS, WVMP, WJCU, WNRN, WMWV, WFIV, KOZT, WBJB, WOCM, WYCE, KMTN... The theme to the hit VH1 show Mob Wives Chicago Full ep at radio now Grace Potter & The Nocturnals “Runaway” Joe Bonamassa “Who’s Been Talking” BDS Monitored Debut 29*! Indicator 23*! Headline tour this month! New: KPIG The second single from Driving Towards The Daylight Major tour dates Oct-Dec ON: Dave-FM, WXRV, WNCS, WCLZ, WCOO, WZEW, KCSN, KRSH, KCKC, ON: WMWV, WVMP, KDBB, WFIV, WOCM, WBJB, WNKU, WEXT, KFMU, KTAO, WVMP, WNKU, WJCU, WVOD, KMMS, WAPS, KDBB, WFIV, WNRN... KSPN, WNTI, KSMF... Album version & edit on MPE Spring tour dates announced John Hiatt “We’re Alright Now” Slightly Stoopid “Top Of The World” BDS New & Active! Indicator 14*! New: WZEW, WERS, WDIY, KRCC Headlining tour this month Mediabase Alternative top 30 already! ON: Sirius, KINK, WXRT, WCLZ, XM Loft, WFPK, WFUV, KCSN, WEHM, KPND, New: WVOD, KNBA, WBSD, WERU ON: WRNR, KFMU, KSPN, KYSL, WCBE, KRSH, WDST, WNKU, WMVY, WKZE, WMWV, KOHO, WAPS, KOZT... On tour now KSMT, KCLC, KMTN, WOCM, KROK, WTYD, WWNU, WBJB, WYCE, WFIV... Martin Harley “Mojo Fix” The Whigs “Waiting” The title track from his new album, in stores now! New: KNBA, KDNK, KSMF Enjoy The Company in stores Extensive tour going on Video online now ON: KINK, WXPK, WZEW, KRSH, KPND, WBJB, WJCU, WCBE, WEXT, WFIV, WVMP, ON: Dave-FM, KINK, WRLT, KRSH, KCSN, WCNR, KSMT, KUT, DMX, KSMT, WOCM, KFMU, KSPN... Tour dates with Meiko & The Dunwells coming WBJB, KROK, WEXT, WFPK, WNRN, WFIV, KFMU, KSPN, KDHX, WFHB... Citizen Cope “Something To Believe In” Somebody’s Darling “Cold Hands” BDS Indicator 20*! FMQB Public #25! ON: WXRT, KINK, WRNR, WXPN, Jank City Shakedown in stores now! Just finished national tour WFUV, KCMP, KRSH, WZEW, WCLZ, KPND, WTMD, KCLC, WERS, WDST, ON: KXT, WFIV, KROK, KBAC, WCBE, KFMU, KSPN, KDNK... “...Like if Janis Joplin KBAC, WYEP, WVOD, KYSL, WMVY, KMTN, WEXT, KNBA... On tour now hopped on the microphone during an Old 97’s and Slobberbone show” - Dallas Observer Walk The Moon “Anna Sun” Robert Cray Band “(Won’t Be) Coming Home” BDS Monitored 4*! Monitored panel pretty much closed out! November tour FMQB Tracks & Public Top 50! ON: WZEW, WXPK, KRSH, KPND, WBJB, Already went top 10 at Modern Rock VH-1 You Oughta Know artist of the month WNKU, WAPS, KPIG, KROK, KFMU, KSPN, WYCE, KYSL, KDHX, WFHB... The only song featured on the HBO Go campaign running since August On tour through Dec Five time Grammy winner, 15 time nominee Susanna Hoffs “Picture Me” ZZ Ward “Put The Gun Down” Video online now! From Someday, with “Raining,” “November Sun,” and more BDS Monitored 27*! More dates through November Full cd in stores 10/16 Produced by Mitchell Froom Tour soon! World Cafe taping 10/5! New: WCNR ON: Dave-FM, Sirius, KPRI, WNCS, KRVB, WRNR, WCLZ, New: WNTI ON: WFIV, WNRN, WKZE, WDIY, MPR, WFIT, WBSD, KAXE, KSMF... KCSN, KRSH, KKXT, KPND, WTMD, WEXT, KTAO, KMMS, KSKI, DMX AA... Mike Doughty talks about “Country Roads,” and shows you his Flip “‘Country Roads’ was my first favorite song. When I was three, I listened to John Denver’s Greatest Hits, on one of those big shoebox cassette players you used to see in school libraries. I lay in the back of a massive, green, 1970s Oldsmobile, pressing the shoddy, mono speaker up to my ear. So, I’m happy to present this version I did, with large boom-bap drums, some chunky strumming, and the matchless voice of Rosanne Cash singing with me.” The Flip Is Another Honey full track listing 1. Sunshine 2. A Fanfare 3. Jimmy Bell (originally by Cat Iron, based on a version by 15 60 75 the Numbers Band) 4. Take Me Home, Country Roads (feat. Rosanne Cash; originally by John Denver) 5. Southern Girls (originally by Cheap Trick) 6. Tightrope (based around a chorus by The Stone Roses) 7. Send in the Clowns (originally from the musical “Company,” by Stephen Sondheim) 8. Running Back (originally by Thin Lizzy) 9. Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat (originally from “Guys and Dolls,” by Frank Loesser) 10. Boy + Angel (originally by Doveman) 11. Reach Out (originally by Cheap Trick) 12. Ta Douleur (originally by Camille) 13. God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind) (originally by Randy Newman) 14. Mistress (originally by Red House Painters) 15. Words (originally by Low) Spin wraps themselves up in Ben Folds Five’s Sound “Oh, if you’re feeling small / And you can’t draw a crowd / Draw dicks on the wall,” Ben Folds sings on The Sound of the Life of the Mind, his first album with bassist Robert Sledge and drummer Darren Jessee in more than a decade. He’s spent the majority of his career doing just that, of course: Whether it’s been his own tunes (“Army,” “Rockin’ the Suburbs”) or someone else’s (he turned Dr. Dre’s “Bitches Ain’t Shit” into a tender ballad), Alternative Nation’s preeminent piano man has never shied away from flying his ribald goofball flag. For Folds, humor has always been a tool to balance the two other main ingredients in his writing: abject rage and startling earnest- ness. The opening track on The Sound of the Life, “Erase Me,” offers a case in point: It’s an angry, embittered break-up song played for laughs. “Erase me / Do me like a bro and tase me,” he sings over the wallop of his piano’s low end; he alters the second line with a new joke each time he hits the chorus (“What the fuck is this? You’re crazy,” “Option-Command- Escape me”), cleverly diffusing his ugly, unflattering resentment by making fun of it, much the way he did on older tunes like “Song for the Dumped” and “Bitch Went Nuts.” Compare this to the album’s final tune, “Thank You for Breaking My Heart,” another breakup song, but this one completely free of nods, winks, guffaws, or any attendant bitterness. “I want a different answer, so I ask you again,” he sings over a winsome piano melody as the song opens. But rather than dwell on what might have been, this song is about sincerely accepting the dissolution of a relationship, not ranting about the injustice of it all. The rest of the album falls mostly between these emotional bookends. There’s a warm, string- laced ode to Frank Sinatra’s manservant (“On Being Frank”), a thunderous meditation on teen alienation — co-written with novelist Nick Hornby — that does a hell of a job tapping into the desperation of feeling like you’re sur- rounded by idiots (the title track), and a breathless, galloping exhortation to live life hard and dangerously (“Do It Anyway”). While the results aren’t vastly different from the stuff that Folds has done on his own in the last decade (even drummer Darren Jessee’s gentle “Sky High” feels pretty comfortably in his bandmate’s wheelhouse), there is a weight and a whomp to the songs that hasn’t always been present in his solo work. Very little here could be accused of being twee; Folds sounds invigorated to have a rock band behind him again, making him play harder, sing harder, be harder. The album’s finest moment is the one that doesn’t fit so easily into any of the trio’s usual categories. “Away When You Were Here,” is a fleshy, orchestral first-person ballad addressed from a son to his late father. Folds has covered this terrain before with tender, naked tear-jerkers like “Still Fighting It” and “Gracie,” but those songs, for all their not inconsiderable merits, are shamelessly sentimental.