RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER JESSE BARNETT [email protected] www.rightarmresource.com 62 CONCERTO COURT, NORTH EASTON, MA 02356 (508) 238-5654 2/27/2008 Van Morrison “That’s Entrainment” Full cd Keep It Simple, in stores April 1. Most Added & #1 Most Increased! R&R Monitored New & Active! First week: WMMM, KTHX, WRNR, WRLT, WCLZ, WEHM, KPIG... Early: KBCO, KCUV, WFUV, WXPN, Sirius, XM Cafe... Back Door Slam “It’ll All Come Around” New: KSPN, KLRR, WUIN, KDEC ON: WXPK, KPND, KRSH, KOZT, KPIG, WMWV, WJCU, KTBG, KDBB, KROK... R&R Indicator Most Increased! World Cafe airs Friday, CBS Sat AM 3/8, Kimmel in April! SXSW, Bonnaroo... Dave Barnes “Until You” New: KRSH, WCNR, KCLC, WNRN, WOCM, KROK, WAPS ON: WRLT, KRVB, KPND, WJCU, WCBE, KMTN, KTAO, KVNF... R&R Indicator Most Added again! 50K+ cds sold before being signed! 300K+ YouTube hits, over 3 million MySpace views! B-52’s “Funplex” R&R Monitored 16*! Indicator 12*! New: WVOD US tour in April & May See great early press on Page 2 ON: WXRT, KINK, CIDR, KENZ, KPRI, WXRV, KXLY, WRNR, WMMM, KRVB, WCOO, WCLZ, WNCS, WZEW, KWMT, WRLT... Justin Nozuka “After Tonight” New this week: WCBE, KKCR, WSGE, KDEC ON: XM, WJCU, KMTN, Music Choice, WUMB Full cd at non-comm now Clear Channel NEW! Artist To Watch! Best New Artist nominee for the Juno Awards (Canadian Grammy)!! Brett Dennen “Ain’t No Reason” Landon Pigg “Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop” R&R Indicator 28*! New: WCLZ, KUWR Video added at VH-1! R&R Monitored Debut 29*! FMQB Tracks Debut 41*! ON: KGSR, KTCZ, WXRV, Already on: WCOO, KXLY, Sirius, KYSL, KOHO, KFMU, KROK, WRSI, KMTN, KXLY, WRLT, WCLZ, KPTL, KRSH, Sirius, WFIV, WFPK, KTBG, KRVO, KCLC... KRVO, KPND, WBJB, KLRR, WVOD, WMVY Rolling Stone’s “Artist To Watch” 150K+ paid downloads! Diamonds Are Forever ad thru March Nicole Atkins “Maybe Tonight” Yoav “Club Thing” FMQB Public 19*! New: KRCL, KUWR, WSYC In stores now FMQB Tracks 42*! Public 14*! 300K+ MySpace plays ON: WYEP, WEHM, WTMD, WFUV, KCMP, WFPK, KCLC, WRSI... New: WEVL ON: WRNR, WFIV, WTMD, WBJB, WFPK, WTMD, Yahoo ‘Ones To Watch’ in February Craig Ferguson 3/5! KEXP, KCMP, WYMS, KBAC, WUIN, KTBG, WCBE, KNBA, KSPN... Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings “100 Days, 100 Nights” Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles “Stop And Think It Over” FMQB Tracks #49! FMQB Public #20! Over 60,000 sold so far! On tour now! On tour now! Playing SXSW! Paste Mag’s ‘Artists To Watch’ New: XM Cafe ON: KGSR, KCUV, WEHM, KRSH, WDST, WXPN, WFPK, ON: KCUV, KPND, KCLC, KBAC, KTBG, WMVY, WMWV, WRSI, WJCU, WTMD, WYEP, WKZE... Great Letterman performance! WNRN, WOCM, KFMU, KPIG, WTMD, WKZE, KDBB, WEXT... Zucchero “I Won’t Let You Down” KT Tunstall “Saving My Face” The first single from All The Best, in stores now! ON: WUIN, WQNR, R&R Monitored #6! Indicator #5! FMQB Tracks #4! KRVM, KDEC, KVNF, WYCE, WSGE , WYSO, KSMF, WNTI, KKCR, WSYC... ON: WXRT, KBCO, KMTT, KINK, KFOG, KGSR, KWMT, He has dueted with Sting, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow and more KCUV, WTTS, KPRI, WRLT, WXRV, WMMM... US tour soon! ‘Entrainment’ explained News Flash: Fun = Good In addition to Van Morrison’s explanation The initial reviews are in for the upcoming B-52’s cd from last week as to the meaning of the Funplex. The news? All good... word ‘entrainment’, I found a great article on it online, and I thought I’d pass it along. “[‘Funplex’] sounds exactly like a B-52s album From the IncredibleHorizons.com website... should- rockin’ surf guitar riffs, girl group harmonies, “Another fascinating and important aspect of entendre-packed lyrics … resonance is the process of entrainment. Entrainment, and an arch call to sexed- in the context of psychoacoustics, concerns changing up revelry…. Listen the rate of brain waves, breaths, or heartbeats from closely and you can hear one speed to another through exposure to external, periodic rhythms. that the technology is all- The most common example of entrainment is contemporary.” - MOJO tapping your feet to the external rhythm of music. Just try keeping your foot or your head still when you are “While the quirkiness and humor still shine through, around fun, up-tempo rhythms. You will see that it is the arrangements on the eleven-song album are more almost an involuntary motor focused and atmospheric.” - RollingStone.com response. However, tapping your feet or bopping your “Songs like “Hot Corner” and “Deviant Ingredient” head to external rhythms is just simmer with the same sort of vocal harmonies and the tip of the iceberg. While surf-rock guitar licks that made the band famous, your feet might be while the title track packs up the old Love Shack and jitterbugging, your nervous system may be getting a moves it to a naughty mall.” - Out Magazine terrible case of the jitters! Rhythmic entrainment is “Their new album’s electro-synths and catchy club- contagious: If the brain doesn’t resonate with a ready disco hooks have catapulted the rock lobsters’ rhythm, neither will the breath or heart rate. In this classic sound into the 21st century. Clearly their tin context, rhythm takes on new meanings. Not only is it roof isn’t that rusty.” - Wired entertaining, but rhythmic entrainment is a potent sonic tool as well - be it for motor function or other “Rife with surf-guitar hooks, hip-shimmy grooves and autonomic processes such as brainwave, heart, and girl-group harmonies, the songs [on Funplex] are as breath rates. Alter one pulse (such as brain waves) crisp and lively as those on the [B-52s’] 1978 debut ... with music, and the other major pulses (heart and Chalk it up to great melodies and a strong pop breath) will dutifully follow. Music alters the performance of the nervous system foundation. Like the band says on the final song, let’s primarily because of entrainment. Entrainment is the keep this party going.” - Performing Songwriter rhythmic manifestation of resonance. With entrainment, a stronger external pulse does not just “The New Wave pioneers have crafted a fun and activate another pulse but actually causes the latter to credible comeback, here hitching rockabilly riffs to a move out of its own resonant frequency to match it. “ big beat.” - Playboy More chances to catch Sarah Borges live 2/29 Easton, MD 3/13-15 SXSW in Austin 4/18 Malborough, MA 3/1 Ashland, VA 3/16 St. Francisville, LA 6/6 Ellsworth, ME 3/2 Raleigh, NC 3/18 Columbia, MO 6/7 Bellows Falls, VT 3/4 Charlotte, NC 3/28 New Haven, CT 6/14 Fall River, MA 3/5 Atlanta, GA 4/4 Somerville, MA 6/17 Oshkosh, WI 3/6 Black Mtn, NC 4/5 Newmarket, NH 7/19 KAXE River Fest For up-to-the-minute AAA news... RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER - 2/27/08