RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 9/11/2019 “Not” The first single from Two Hands, in stores October 11 New: WFUV, WFIV, WCBE, KDEC, WERU ON: KCMP, WFPK, WYMS, KEXP, KVOQ, WYCE, WRSI, KRCL “A towering statement from a group constantly leapfrogging over themselves.” - Pitchfork “The song is a fan favorite at Big Thief’s live shows, but the studio recording is stunning.” - UPROXX On tour this fall Lots of press TBA Robbie Robertson “Let Love Reign” (w/Glen Hansard) The official single from Sinematic, in stores September 20 New: WAPS, KYSL, WCBE, KXCI, KDTR, KAXE ON: WFPK, WEHM, WCLX, KOZT, WYCE, WFIV, WMVY, KSUT, WBJB, WMWV, KMMS, KPIG, KROK, KDEC and more Inspired by the peace ideals of John Lennon “There was something a little naive about John Lennon going around singing about peace, but in that period young people celebrating love and peace helped end a war.” - Robbie Grace Potter “Love Is Love” From her new Daylight, out 10/25 Mediabase 33*, BDS Monitored 23*, Indicator 19*, FMQB Public 21*! Most Added AGAIN! New: WXRV, WRSI, WYEP, KYMK, KBAC, WBZS, KRML... Already on: KGSR, KRVB, WNCS, WRLT, WXPN, WFUV, KCSN, WFPK, KTBG, WRNR, WXPK, WTMD, KXT, WAPS, WPYA, KVNA, WCLZ, WERS, WWCT, Music Choice... Produced by her husband, Eric Valentine Tour announcing soon Trigger Hippy “Don’t Wanna Bring You Down” The first single from Full Circle & Then Some, in stores 10/11 Already on: WRLT, KVNA, KPND, WCLX, WCLY, WYCE, KYSL, WKZE, WVOD, WCBE, KROK, WFIV, WMWV, KNBA, WBJB, WMVY, KRVM, KUWR The new lineup features founders drummer Steve Gorman, bassist/vocalist Nick Govrik and new members vocalist/instrumentalist Ed Jurdi and vocalist/saxophonist Amber Woodhouse November tour Video online now Catfish and The Bottlemen “2all” The new single from The Balance, following up the AAA and Alt hit “Longshot” Mediabase 48*, FMQB Tracks Debut 43*, Mediabase Alt 27*! New: WXRV, WNCS, KSKI, WCNR, KMTN ON: Music Choice, WRLT, KINK, WPYA, WXPK, KVNA, KPND, WAPS, KYMK, KVYN, WBJB, KCLC, KLRR, KRML, KSPN, WVOD, KRSH, WFIV, KYSL, KMMS... Over 1 billion artist streams to date! US tour dates in through October SOAK “Knock Me Off My Feet” The new single from Grim Town Mediabase 45*, BDS Monitored Debut 40*, FMQB Tracks 47*, Public 46*! New: WPYA, KUTX, WSGE, KRML, KROK, KRVM ON: WXRV, KCMP, Music Choice, WRLT, WFUV, KCSN, WNCS, KXT, WYEP, KTBG, WDST, WAPS, KJAC, KVNA, WEHM, WTMD, WNRN, KYMK, WCNR... Fantastic in Boulder! “A “love letter” to small-town culture and the idea that we ourselves can be our best allies and our worst enemies.” - Consequence of Sound Run River North “Wake Up” The first single from Monsters Calling Home, Volume 2, the second half of their collection of EPs this year ON: WEHM, KCLC, KLRR, WJCU, WFIV, WSGE, WLKR, WOCM, KSLU, KUWR, KDEC, WHRV Catch them live on the road this fall Watch their Paste session on my site “Our songs sometimes take so much emotion to perform but this one feels effortless” - Alex Hwang/RRN White Reaper “Might Be Right” From their Elektra debut And You Deserve Love, in stores 10/18 Mediabase 34*, BDS Monitored 24*, Indicator 28*, Mediabase Alt 21*! New: WRNR, WCLZ, KPND, KRSH, WNRN, KTAO ON: WXRT, KGSR, WXRV, WRLT, KINK, KRVB, KCMP, KCSN, WXPK, WFPK, WAPS, WTMD, WNCS, WDST, WPYA... Tour kicks off 10/3 “A jubilant storm of tight pop rock that’s indebted to the previous generation, but not derivative.” - Consequence of Sound Penny & Sparrow “Don’t Wanna Be Without Ya” The first single from the new album Finch, out now New: WMVY ON: WPYA, KJAC, WCLX, WNRN, WFIV, WYCE, WCBE, KNBA, KCLC, WLKR, WKZE, KSLU, KUWR, WUMB, KRVM, KRCC, Acoustic Cafe... “A lilting song about reincarnation with the rhythmic drive of Paul Simon’s “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” - Bruce Warren/WXPN Their headlining tour runs through November Robert Randolph & The Family Band “Baptise Me” From Brighter Days, out now Mediabase #47, BDS Monitored New & Active, Indicator 21*, FMQB Tracks 25*, Public #7! New: WUTC, WYSO ON: Music Choice, WFUV, WRLT, WXPK, KCSN, WFPK, KTBG, WPYA, KXT, WTMD, WYEP, KJAC, WAPS, KPND, KVOQ, KVWF, WCLX, KRSH, WNRN... Headlining tour on now “The songwriting is impressively strong, with no weak or filler tracks.” - Glide Wilderado “Surefire” The first single from their forthcoming album Mediabase 50*! New: KSKI, KRML ON: WRLT, WXPK, Music Choice, WPYA, KVNA, WWCT, WZEW, KVWF, KYMK, KMMS, WJCU, WCLX, KCLC, WYCE, KSPN, KUMT, WFIV, KLRR... Played summer festivals and will be supporting Mt. Joy this fall: 10/12 Minneapolis, 10/14 Kansas City, 10/16 Dallas, 10/17 Austin, 10/18 Houston, 11/21 Denver “Big harmonies, big riffs, big heart” - Redbull.com The Commonheart “Do Right” The first single from Pressure, out now ON: WYEP, WAPS, KVWF, KMTN, WEXT, WUIN, WCLX, WYCE, KSMF, WFIV, KUWR, WMVY, KBAC, WUKY, WCBE, KSLU, WFIT, KXCI, KVNF, KAXE, KRCC, WDVX... Fantastic in Boulder, at Americana this week! “Commanding vocals amid a Stax-style review” - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Catch them on their headlining tour this fall Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors “End Of The World” The first single from Dragons, out now BDS Indicator 35*, FMQB Tracks Debut 50*, Public Debut 46*! New: WFPK, WCNR ON: Music Choice, WRLT, WPYA, KPND, WXCT, KRSH, WZEW, KLRR, WOCM, KBAC, WEXT, WCLX, KDRP, KNBA, WBJB, WNCW, KVWF, WCLY, WCBE, KROK... Tour kicking off! “Roots-rock road warriors whose mixed the boozy thrill of Saturday nights with the sweeping uplight of Sunday mornings.” - Rolling Stone The National “Rylan” From I Am Easy To Find Mediabase 17*, BDS Monitored 14*, Indicator 13*! ON: KBCO, KGSR, KINK, WXPK, WRNR, KRVB, WRLT, WQKL, WMMM, Music Choice, KCMP, WXPN, KXT, KCSN, WKLQ, WFPK, WFUV, KUTX, WYEP, KTBG, WCLZ, KPND, WTMD, WPYA, KJAC, WYMS... Just wrapped up their fall tour with Alvvays This is a fan favorite, dating back to the sessions for 2010’s High Violet Boy & Bear “Hold Your Nerve” The first single from Suck On Light, in stores 9/27 Mediabase 37*, BDS #1 Monitored New & Active, Indicator #27! New: WMMM, WERS ON: WXRV, KINK, WRLT, WXPK, Music Choice, KCSN, KXT, WNCS, KVNA, WPYA, WAPS, KJAC, WWCT, WZEW, WDST, WCOO, KPND, KVWF, KYMK, KRSH, WNRN, WCLX, WCNR, KRML... Produced by Boy & Bear and Collin Dupuis (Black Keys, Lana Del Rey) North American tour dates this month Pete Yorn “Calm Down” From Caretakers, out now Mediabase 20*, BDS Monitored 32*, Indicator #27! Acoustic tour dates in October, more band shows TBA New: KRCC ON: KGSR, KBCO, KRVB, WXRV, WRLT, WRNR, WMMM, KINK, WFUV, KCMP, WXPN, KCSN, KXT, WPYA, Music Choice, WNCS, WFPK, WAPS, WXPK, KYMK, KVNA, KVOQ, WCOO, WTMD, WZEW, WRSI, KRSH, WWCT, WCLX, WERS... Watch the Kimmel performance on my site Los Coast “Monsters” From Samsara, out now Fantastic lunchtime show in Boulder! ON: KGSR, WRLT, WXPN, KCSN, Music Choice, WWCT, KUTX, KTBG, WYEP, KJAC, WTMD, KVNV, WCLX, KVWF, KRML, KBAC, WJCU, WCBE, WNCW, WVOD, WBJB, KSUT... On tour with Gary Clark Jr again this month Already toured this year with St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Black Pumas and more Vampire Weekend “This Life” The new single from Father Of The Bride Mediabase #7, BDS Monitored #6, Indicator #6, Mediabase Alt almost top 10! “A sunny upbeat track with a catchy guitar lick and ’90s pop-rock allure” - Spin Tons of Best of 2019 lists On tour now: 9/27 Seattle, 9/28 Portland OR, 10/1 San Francisco, 10/2 Los Angeles, 10/3 San Diego, 10/6 Salt Lake City, 10/8 Denver Consequence of Sound continues the run of press love for Big Thief “Big Thief have already graced us with one album in 2019. This past week, however, they announced another to be released before the year is up. Two Hands, the follow-up to May’s U.F.O.F., is due out in October via 4AD. Along with the announce- ment of a new record, we were made privy to one of its first tracks, “Not”, a song the band have played live on occasion. The story goes that sometime last summer the quartet, consisting of , , James Krivchenia, and Max Oleartchik, put aside a few weeks in their jam-packed touring schedule to head to the enveloping forest in northern Washington state. It’s there where they recorded their astronomical LP, U.F.O.F.. As it turns out, just days after this recording session in the woods, Two Handswas recorded at the Sonic Ranch studio about 30 miles west of El Paso, Texas. Two Hands is described by the band as its predecessor’s “earth twin,” seeing as it was recorded in the scorching heat of a Texan desert, and as Lenkner says in a statement: “Two Hands has the songs that I’m the most proud of; I can imagine myself singing them when I’m old. Musically and lyrically, you can’t break it down much further than this. It’s already bare-bones.” “Not” is our first taste of just that and is a six-minute rush of inescapable emotions. As mentioned before, the band have been playing the song in some variation live in their sets for quite some time, and if you’ve had the chance to hear it, you can probably still feel it tugging your heart- strings. The song begins with rumbling guitar and a guiding bass line that leads you straight into Lenkner’s emotive vocals, which transcend into a powerful squawk that sends chills down your spine. “Not” having a proper recording just gives us a glimpse into how much might could be in this new record and how much mightier the band have become. It’s quietly becoming Big Thief’s year.” - Consequence of Sound, 8/19/19 Yahoo! Lifestyle catches up with Boy & Bear “It’s been four years since Boy & Bear released a new record and I know that because that’s about the amount of time has been sitting on my personal record player for. It’s been sitting there that long because my dog ate the sleeve to the limited edition copy I had. But Boy & Bear fans may not realise how extremely lucky it is to still have the band blessing our airwaves. Since 2011, the band’s lead singer Dave Hosking has been quietly dealing with a debilitating illness that had been misdiagnosed until 2016. After years of not having answers, dealing with intense pain, anxiety, depression and slowly losing his sanity, a breakthrough diagnosis was made after a specialist identified irregularities in Hosking’s gut that they believed was poisoning his nervous system. He was then diagnosed with Chronic Dysbiosis. It wasn’t until transitioning from having a mystery illness to being properly diagnosed and starting Faecal Micro- biota Transplants (FMT) that Hosking was finally able to find relief and start functioning somewhat normally again. For those of you playing along at home, FMT it is essentially a ‘poo transplant’ and Hoskings was doing them daily with the help of his “poo roadie”, Harry whom he found via a letterbox drop. However, in recent months Harry has been able to hang up his donor hat, with Hosking having found a new treatment breakthrough that has allowed him to put a halt to FMT. “Long story short, it [provides a form of light therapy] called photobiomodulation,” the singer has explained. “Essentially it’s the use of different wavelengths of light that stimulate human cells. Basically it repairs neurons and creates new neurons,” Hosking said in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald. I caught up with Tim Hart (drummer & vocalist) and Dave Symes (bass) prior to Boy & Bear’s first show of the Hold Your Nerve tour in Brisbane to chat the hiatus, fears the fans would move on and refusing to quit.

BUSINESS AS USUAL Having spent so much time off the road, it’s to be expected there were some first day of school nerves going into their first live show at The Tivoli in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. Both Tim and Dave Symes agreed that it was kind of a ‘weird’ feeling. “It’s exciting especially stepping onto stage and seeing everything set up again,” said Tim. “Like in the intervening couple of years you start questioning, what did it feel like again to do this? You know, like, I’ve done other shows on Solo shows and Symes has done stuff too. But it’s like this is what I love.” Weighing in on Tim’s feelings, Symes told me, “I think nerves and excitement and adrenaline. We’ve been rehearsing and getting stuff together then sort of getting our team back together and it feels like this is sort of the first match of a tournament or something.” Boy & Bear’s is the first album I shared with my fiance that we both had a mutual affection for. She still reminisces about the girls’ trip to Splendour in the Grass in 2013, often whenever the stubby cooler with the old line up is pulled out on the weekend. For me I fell in love with their deep and soulful sound, it’s a sound that’s a little Aussie and majorly unique. Not only do you know it’s Boy & Bear, you are listening to you get this feeling it’s lightning in a bottle. Tim was pretty chuffed to hear me say they this. “It’s nice to hear that we have a sort of a signature sound that you can tell it’s us straight away because when you’re so close to it you have no idea,” he said. “Like you just, write. Cause we’re songwriters first and foremost. We want to be creative and then you can, you do like you produce those songs in a way that you like it. And so then, you know, I guess it takes on its own signature.”

FEARS THE FANS WOULD MOVE ON WITHOUT THEM A long hiatus away from the industry was pretty daunting according to Tim and Symes, both acknowledging the fears that no one would be here when they were ready to come back. “There’s always that in the back of your mind. I guess there’s no guarantee that you’re going to be, [or] your music’s going to be accept- ed and received again by commercial things like radio or papers and by fans” Symes said. Listening to Tim and Symes talk about music was a rather emotional experience, it’s hard to not get swept up in their passion. “[We’ve] sort of written music that we love, and made it the best we possibly can. If you write and create something that’s true and it has integrity, I think that really sometimes can, no matter what people’s sort of taste [or] genres are, it can really sort of transcend that. “Because it would’ve just been pretty f**king weird for us to come up with an EDM record, wouldn’t it? You know what I mean?” Tim said through a big grin.

“IF THERE WASN’T MUSIC, I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT I’D DO” I didn’t go too much into Hosking’s illness with the boys but we did talk about what might have happened if the band couldn’t find it’s feet again. “I don’t want Symes to feel insulted by this, but I think me and him are the two who are rusted on in terms of music. If there wasn’t music, I didn’t know what I’d do. I’ll find a way to do music”, Tim said. “I’m the same. But, I guess within the band there were definitely moments where, with the unknown of when we were going to be able to get it back up and running, it’s definitely the cloud hanging over our heads”, Symes added. “Internally, it was always strong. Like we always believed, like you’d have moments of doubt, but we always believe would make through it. The hardest thing was when people would come to you and go, ‘Oh, Tim is Boy & Bear still a band? Everyone’s saying that you split up.’ It’s hard when you start hearing that over and over again”, Tim agreed. In the end according to Symes, they all “sort of soldiered on through it, kept writing and kept being together and working, working on ideas and inspiring each other.” While it’s been a long time between drinks for Boy & Bear and performing live it’s pretty clear there is a buzz of excitement in the air for what’s to come.” - Yahoo! Lifestyle, 8/23/19 Coming up... 9/23: Ringo Starr... 9/30: Crimial Hygiene, Beth Hart... 10/7: Chadwick Stokes RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 9/11/2019