RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 9/20/2017 Yoke Lore “Goodpain” The title track from the new EP, out now Already on WJCU, KCLC and KSLU Over 1.5 million streams on Spotify “The good vibes are strong with this one. Yoke Lore’s title track off his EP is transcendent and calming. This is Grade A songwriting.” - NYLON On tour now with Overcoats, November tour dates with Aquilo Paste session coming up October 2 Official video launching soon SIMO “Shine” The first single from Rise & Shine, out now Early at WFIV Paste session online now Just played a WXPN Free At Noon concert On tour: 10/14 Oklahoma City, 10/16 Albuquerque, 10/18 Phoenix, 10/20 Los Angeles, 10/25 Bend OR, 10/26 Boise... “It is never less than compelling and the statement it contains is clearly something that the band needed to make.” - Maximum Volume Black Pistol Fire “Lost Cause” The first single from Deadbeat Graffiti, in stores 9/29 New at KUTX Already on WBJB, WOCM, WFIV, WXRY, Open Air “Sleep on these guys at your own risk. What they did to BMI on Friday afternoon was unholy, leaving a trail of scorched earth and melted minds” - Consequence of Sound/Lollapalooza On tour: 9/29 Austin, 10/10 Kansas City, 10/11 St. Louis, 10/13 Cleveland... Good Old War “The River” The first single from their Part Of Me EP, out now New at WYCE, KDBB, KRVM, KSMF Already on WFIV, WCBE, KYSL, WMWV, WUKY, KNBA... This is the first of three EPs that the band plans to release over the next year On tour in October and November with Josh Ritter: 10/22 Dallas, 10/23 Birmingham, 10/24 Atlanta, 10/25 Carrboro, 10/27 Boston, 10/28 Portland ME, 10/29 Brooklyn, 11/1 Millvale... Ted Leo “Can’t Go Back” The first single from his new solo album, out now New at KCMP, WYEP, KDHX, XM Loft, KDEC, KRCC, KNBA, KUWR Already on KEXP, KJAC, WFPK, WNKU, WCBE, WBJB, KBAC, WYCE, KRCL, WMVY, KHUM, KVNA, Open Air... This is his first solo album since his work with The Phar- macists and with Aimee Mann as The Both On tour: 9/20 Detroit, 9/22 Chicago, 9/23 Cleveland, 9/24 Pittsburgh, 10/23 Richmond... The National “Day I Die” From Sleep Well Beast, out now Mediabase 45*, BDS New & Active, FMQB Tracks 38*, Public 4*! Soundscan #3 with 61K sold first week! New at KINK, WXPK, WQKL, WERS, KHUM, WMNF, KROK, WZLO... Already on WRLT, WRNR, KCSN, KCMP, WFUV, WXPN, WPYA, KTBG, KVNV, WYEP, WTMD, KUTX, KJAC... Insane press includes CBS News, Colbert and more “The Best Rock Album of 2017” - Forbes Joan Osborne “Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)” The first single from Songs Of Bob Dylan, out now FMQB Public 41*! New at WDVX Already on WFUV, XM Loft, WYEP, WEXT, WNCW, KBAC, WMVY, WBJB, WFIV, KVNA, WMWV, KOZT, WCBE, KMTN, KHUM, Acoustic Cafe, KDHX... Full cd at radio now “I have seen the future of Bob Dylan reinterpretation, and her name is Joan Osborne” - Relix On tour through the fall Joan is a 7 time Grammy nominee Jonny Lang “Stronger Together” The first single from Signs, in stores now New at KDNK, WBSD Already on WAPS, WCBE, KVNA, KPIG, WFIV, WOCM, KNBA, WYCE, KROK, WSGE, KRVM, KSNO, KDEC, KFMG, KDBB... “Signs, which features elements of funk, rock and blues, is held together by Lang’s distinctive playing and singing-and the lyrics, which focus on themes of battles and self-empowerment.” – Guitar World On tour! Full cd at radio now Grizfolk “In My Arms” (feat. Jamie N Commons) Their new single, out now Ranked #2 in the Boulder Music Meeting among KBCO listeners! New at WRNR Already on KINK, WMMM, WPYA, WWCT, WTMD, WZEW, KVNV, KPND, KRSH, WAPS, KVNA, KRML, WFIV, WVOD, KDEC, KROK, WOCM Surpassed 2 million on Spotify! On tour: 10/14 Philadelphia, 10/17 New York City, 10/18 Boston, 10/20 College Park MD, 10/21 Charlotte, 10/22 Nashville, 10/24 Atlanta... Brian Tyree Henry “We Can Always Come Back To This” (This Is Us soundtrack) From the soundtrack to the hit NBC TV show This Is Us, out now New at KINK, WTMD Already on KRSH, WZEW, WFIV, KVNA, WYCE, WUSM Featured in the season finale to an audience of almost 18 million and immediately surged to the top 20 in iTunes Written by This Is Us com- poser Siddhartha Khosla, aka Goldspot Brian is best known as Paper Boi on the hit TV show Atlanta and as The General in Book Of Mormon JD McPherson “Lucky Penny” The first single from Undivided Heart & Soul, out October 6 Mediabase 25*, BDS Monitored 17*, Indicator 9*, FMQB Tracks 9*, Public 2*! New: WWCT, KSPN, KDHX, WLKR... Already on KFOG, KINK, WQKL, KCMP, WRLT, Music Choice, KTHX, WXPK, WCLZ, KUTX, WXPN, WFUV, WYEP, KXT, KEXP, KCSN, XM Loft, KTBG, WFPK, WEHM, WTMD, WAPS, KJAC, WPYA, WYMS... National tour with Nikki Lane coming this fall Alex Lahey “Every Day’s the Weekend” The first single from I Love You Like A Brother, out October 6 #1 at SiriusXM Alt Nation! Sales up almost 100% every week! New at KVNA Already on WRLT, KCMP, WAPS, WYEP, WYMS, WLKR, WYCE, Open Air, WFIV, WJCU, KROK... “Get hip to Alex before she’s playing SNL” - Brooklyn Vegan “A driving, snappy, endearingly witty introduction” - Clash Music Nov/Dec tour: 11/15 Boston, 11/16 NYC, 11/7 Philadelphia, 11/19 DC, 11/24 Chicago... Cold War Kids “So Tied Up” (feat. Bishop Briggs) The second single from LA Divine, following up the AAA and Alt hit “Love Is Mystical” Mediabase #19, BDS Monitored 19*, Indicator 12*! New at WTTS, KSPN Already on SiriusXM, WXRT, KGSR, WXRV, WRNR, WMMM, WPYA, KJAC, WXPK, KCMP, WRLT, WTMD, WFPK, WNCS, KTHX, KRVB, WAPS, WYMS, WCNR, WERS, WCLZ.. 7MM+ Spotify and 44K+ singles sold “A fast paced toe-tapper with a stadium-sized arrangement” - Time Jackie Greene “Modern Lives” The first single from The Modern Lives, Volume 1, his upcoming EP, out October 13 FMQB Tracks #37, Public Debut 43*! New at WUKY and WERU Already on KJAC, KTHX, WAPS, KRSH, KPND, WYEP, WBJB, KPIG, KRML, KVNA, KDBB, WMVY, WJCU, WFIV, WNRN, WCBE, WKZE, KHUM, WUIN, KROK, WMWV, KSUT, KMTN... Fantastic video animated by Oscar-winner Bill Plympton online now! On tour this fall with Anders Osborne Lilly Hiatt “The Night David Bowie Died” The first single from Trinity Lane, out now New at WNCW Already on XM Loft, WRLT, WAPS, KVNA, KNBA, WFIV, WEXT, WCBE, KRCL, KDHX, WFHB... “The night David Bowie died, I was in disbelief. I wanted to talk to someone, but it was too late to make a phone call. I cried quietly and went to bed. The next day, I picked up my guitar and hit record on Garage Band. I started to sing and those were the first words that came out. I felt like Bowie was giving me a little gift.” - Lilly to Paste Mag. Will Hoge “Young As We Will Ever Be” The first single from Anchors, out now Already on WRLT, KJAC, XM Loft, WAPS, KPND, KVNA, WEXT, KPIG, KNBA, WYCE, WCBE, WBJB, WFIV, WNCW, WUTC, WBSD, KVNF, WERU, KDHX, WHRV, WDVX, KTAO, WUSM, KAXE... On tour now “A rollicking, Springsteen-esque rocker with a killer guitar solo, with lyrics inspired by persistence in the face of setbacks” - American Songwriter Jack Johnson “My Mind Is For Sale” From All The Light Above It Too, out now Mediabase 4*, BDS Monitored 5*, Indicator 1* (5th week)!!, FMQB Tracks 1* (3rd week)!!, Public 11* Fantastic performance at eTown in Boulder! More tour dates coming this fall! Offical lyric and Kimmel videos online now “Johnson delivers his barbs with a gentle and dexterous touch over an effervescent instrumental groove” - Rolling Stone Mondo Cozmo “Automatic” The first single from Plastic Soul, out now Mediabase #16, BDS Monitored #21, Indicator 19*, FMQB Tracks #16, Public #31! Already on WXRT, KGSR, KFOG, KINK, WRLT, KCSN, KRVB, KTHX, Music Choice, WQKL, KXT, WNCS, WNKU, WWCT, WEHM, KJAC, WCOO, WMMM, WCLZ, KPND, WXPN, WYMS... Headlining tour going on now: 9/20 Indianapolis, 9/22 Denver, 9/23 Salt Lake City, 9/24 Las Vegas, 9/26 LA... The Lone Bellow “Time’s Always Leaving” The first single from Walk Into A Storm, out now Mediabase 30*, BDS Monitored 30*, Indicator #22, FMQB Tracks 21*, Public #23! New: WXPK, Acoustic Cafe, KRCC, WERU Already on WRLT, KINK, WPYA, WXPN, WFUV, WFPK, KCSN, KJAC, WCLZ, WZEW, Music Choice, WAPS, KTBG, WTMD, WNKU, WNCS, KPND, KRSH, WEHM, WYEP, WCNR, WNRN, KVNA, KRML, WEXT, WUIN, KLRR and more Press: Kimmel, CBS Saturday Morning... Barns Courtney “Golden Dandelions” Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band “Nothing But The Night” From The Attractions Of Youth, out 9/29 Mediabase #29, BDS Indicator #24, FMQB Tracks #35! The first single from Lay It On Down, out now Already on WAPS, WSGE, KYSL, KVNA, KPIG, Already on KGSR, KCMP, WXRV, KINK, WQKL, WRLT, WXPK, KTBG, KXT, WPYA, WCOO, WZEW, KROK, WVOD, WOCM, WMWV, WEXT, WFIV, KBAC, WYCE, KMMS, WEVL, WBJB, WMNF... KPND, WWCT, Music Choice, WCLZ, KLRR, WDST, KSKI, WYCE, WFIV, WJCU, KBAC, WAPS... Five-time Grammy Nominee! On tour: 9/21 Wichita, 9/22 Springfield IL, 9/23 Louisville Picture This “Take My Hand” Nikki Lane “Send The Sun” The first single from this Irish band on Republic Records, from their self-titled album, out now The new single from Highway Queen Already on KCMP, WPYA, WRLT, KRSH, KJAC, WAPS, Already on KINK, KJAC, WAPS, KLRR, KVNA, KCLC, WVOD, WFIV and WYCE WTMD, WYEP... “Highway Queen is her best yet, and should cement her status as the rightful Played on The TODAY Show last week and wrapping up their run of US dates this week heir to icons like Wanda Jackson and Loretta Lynn” - American Songwriter JD McPherson tour NPR Music loves the new album from The Lone Bellow “If there’s a secret to the warm, wide-open sound of The Lone Bellow, it lies in absolute sincerity and commitment: As playful as their live shows can be, Zach Williams, Kanene Donehey Pipkin and Brian Elmquist perform with openhearted, vein-bursting conviction. All three of the band’s albums — including the new Walk Into A Storm — ably capture the group’s earnest, agreeable charm, dispensed via songs that amble and soar. Between 2015’s Then Came The Morning and Walk Into A Storm, The Lone Bellow re- located from Brooklyn to Nashville — a move reflected by the presence of producer Dave Cobb, who’s overseen star-making albums for the likes of Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton and Sturgill Simpson. Cobb gives Walk Into A Storm a bright, crisp, sunny sound that perfectly matches The Lone Bellow’s penchant for warmly rousing, gospel-inflected Americana. The record comes stacked with charisma-drenched ringers, from the crowd-pleasing single “Time’s Always Leaving” to the roiling opener “Deeper In The Water” — which, in turn, gives way to “Is It Ever Gonna Be Easy,” a slow-burner that channels both Van Mor- rison and his spiritual descendant, Glen Hansard. Elsewhere, Williams and Pipkin duet in the string-swept ballad “Come Break My Heart Again,” Pipkin takes the lead in the countrified barnstormer “Feather,” and Williams conjures up the chiming charm of late-’80s college radio in “Can’t Be Happy For Long.” All the way through, each song is calibrated for maximum ingratiation — a goal it hits with clock- work precision.” - NPR First Listen, 9/7/17 Vanyaland shoots off a writeup on Black Pistol Fire “Austin-by-way-of-Canada rock duo Black Pistol Fire have announced September 29 as the release date for their fifth album, Deadbeat Graffiti, and this week dropped the first single, “Lost Cause.” The track opens the record, and has that jittery, garage rock feel the band have perfected over the years. The “lovestruck anthem,” as the pair have dubbed it, kicks off with a shaky riff from singer/guitarist Kevin McKe- own before drummer Eric Owen skitters in with a rat-a-tat beat and then the two unite into the main groove. McKeown laments seeing no way out alive, so there’s really not a bunch of happiness lyrically, but the track rocks so damn hard it’s infectious. As to whether it’s indicative of the rest of the material on the 12-track Deadbeat Graffiti — don’t bet on it. “Our fifth album is a representation of our listening habits,” McKeown and Owen say in a joint statement. “It has a roller coaster effect, with many different tempos and influences ranging from garage-punk, to hip-hop, soul, and everything else that we may listen to on a given day. It is meant to act like a mixtape or Spotify playlist, where the listener won’t know what’ll hit them next!” - Vanyaland, 8/25/17 Under The Radar goes public with their praise for Ted Leo “Though he released a self-titled album with Aimee Mann under the name The Both back in 2014, Ted Leo has been unusually quiet this decade. For an artist who released an album every few years and toured relentlessly in the ‘90s with his band Chisel and then in the ‘00s with his backing band The Pharmacists, his absence was striking. So what happened? A series of personal and financial setbacks hampered Leo and his family and it took seven long years from 2010’s The Brutalist Bricks for him to be able to release this Kickstarter-funded project after having been on a series of prominent indie labels such as Matador, Touch & Go, and Lookout! (two of them now defunct) in the previous decade. The first sound you hear on the album’s opening track, “Moon Out of Phase,” is his signature electric guitar. However, this is a red her- ring. By far the quietest and moodiest album of Leo’s solo career, it’s clear that this is unlike anything else he’s done before. For one, it’s very personal in places. For a lyricist known to spout (intelligent) invective at the powers that be during the George W. Bush era and to make arcane historical and religious references with frequency in his songs, parts of The Hanged Man feel disarmingly unguarded. Indeed, on the penultimate track “Lonsdale Avenue,” Leo openly talks about the death of his daughter after a premature attempt at birth and else- where, such as on “Can’t Go Back” and “Used to Believe,” he alludes to other events that occurred during his time between records such as his wife’s illness due to a rare disease (she is now fully recovered). Thus, given all that trauma, it’s a wonder that he’s back making music. Even the song that mostly seems to deal with the world at large, “William Weld in the 21st Century,” isn’t a rushed, hyper-political punk- influenced blast, but in this case a contemplative ballad referencing the former Massachussetts governor and perhaps alluding to current events and how Weld’s Republican party of the past compares to those who occupy each chamber of government today. In other words, like roughly half of the tracks here, it sounds like it could’ve been released on The Both. However, this is very much Leo’s album, even more so than any of his other solo work. In fact, only Chris Wilson appears from The Pharmacists to lay down drum tracks on most songs. Overall, though, it feels the claustrophobic work of a solitary, driven man who’s been through a lot but isn’t broken. Tracks that sound somewhat like his past are there as well and the hooks are brighter than ever on songs such as “Run to the City,” the stunning “The Little Smug Supper Club” (perhaps a dig at scenesters or critics?), and single “You’re Like Me.” Aside from perhaps 2003’s incredible Hearts of Oak, this may be the best record Ted Leo has ever made. If not, it’s certainly the boldest as it’s bound to challenge parts of his fanbase hoping for another record like 2004’s anti-Bush manifesto Shake the Sheets. Yes, another Republican is in power and the world’s still a mess, but this time around, Leo looked inward, assessed all that happened to him, realized he still had something to say, and made a stunning record that’s one of the year’s very best.” - Under The Radar Magazine, 9/8/17 10/2: Alex Clare “Get Real,” Angus & Julia Stone “Oakwood” RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 9/20/2017