RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER JESSE BARNETT [email protected] www.rightarmresource.com 62 CONCERTO COURT, NORTH EASTON, MA 02356 (508) 238-5654 5/16/2007 The Polyphonic Spree “Running Away” The first single from their new cd The Fragile Army, in stores June 19, going for adds now Added early at KCMP, WBJB, KSLU On tour this summer! See complete dates on Page 2 The Kooks “She Moves In Her Own Way” The follow up to “Naive” is on your desk and going for adds now! “Irresistable!” - Filter Magazine Added early at KMMS, KSPN, KFMU, WNRN Just finished another run of US tour dates Grace Potter & The Nocturnals “Ah Mary” #1 Most Added! First week: WBOS, WNCS, WZEW, WDST, WMVY, WUIN, WXPN, KPND, KLRR, KNBA... Early adds: Sirius, KCUV, WTMD, KSPN, KFMU, KSQY, KTBG... On tour now! Single on iTunes Beaver Nelson “Overnight Sensation” Cary Brothers “Who You Are” Aqualung “Outside” The first single from Exciting Opportunity, New: WOCM, KSQY, KWRP, KDEC, WYCE... New: WFIV, WOCM, WBJB, WBSD on your desk and going for adds now ON: WNCS, KBAC, WBJB, KDBB, KROK, Already on: WYEP, KTBG, WNRN, KDBB, Already on: KUT, WFHB, Maine Public Radio WNRN, KCLC, KVNF, KRVM, WSYC, KFAN... WMWV, WAPS, KTAO, XM Cafe, KWRP... On tour this month: 5/17 Albany, 5/18 Boston, On tour now with Brandi Carlile! Over 20K scanned! Leno last week 5/19 Highstown NJ, 5/20-21 New York City... Full cd Who You Are in stores May 29 Just finished run of US tour dates Ryan Shaw “Nobody” Ari Hest “So Slow” Angelique Kidjo w/Peter Gabriel “Salala” R&R Indicator 17*! FMQB Public 13*! New this week: Music Choice, WYCE, KSMF R&R Monitored Debut 30*! Indicator 6*! On tour now with Joss Stone ON: WBJB, WCBE, WNRN, KDBB, MPR, KXCI, FMQB Public #7! New: WOCM, WCLZ New: KLRR, KCRW, WKZE, WUTC, WFHB, WDIY KVNF, WRRW, KFAN, Acoustic Cafe, XM Loft Tonight Show 5/22 ON: KFOG, WXRT, KBCO, WBOS, ON: KBCO, WBOS, WRLT, WDST, WXPK, WFIV, Co-headlining tour with The Damnwells KGSR, WXRV, WNCS, KTHX, WRNR, KCUV, WXPK... WFUV, KEXP, WXPN, WCNR, WNRN, KUT... Full cd The Break In is in stores now See her at the NON-COMMvention this week The Alternate Routes “Time Is A Runaway” The Greyboy Allstars “How Glad I Am” The Nightwatchman “The Road I Must Travel” R&R Indicator 14*! FMQB Tracks 20*! Feat. Karl Denson, Mike Andrews & others New: WMVY, WYCE ON: WXPN, KUT, New: KXLY ON: KBCO, KPRI, WMMM, ON: WDST, WFUV, WXPN, KUT, WUIN, WDST, KCUV, KOZT, KPIG, KTBG, KPND... WRLT, WNCS, WXRV, WTTS, WXPK... WNCW, KTBG, KSPN, KFMU, KWRP... See Tom Morello as The Nightwatchman On tour: 5/16 Austin, 5/18 Dallas, 5/19 Houston, Tour: 5/17 St. Louis, 5/18 Chicago, this week at the NON-COMMvention 5/22 Little Rock, 5/23 St. Louis, 5/24 Nashville... 5/19 Kansas City... FMQB Public #15 Fantastic press and sales! Joss Stone “Tell Me ‘Bout It” Willy Mason “Save Myself” The Mother Hips “Time We Had” R&R Monitored 5*! Indicator #2! ON: KGSR, CIDR, WRNR, KTHX, KRSH, ON: KRSH, KCLC, KHUM, KWRP, XM On tour now! New: WMMM WXPN, WMVY, WFPK, WUIN, WRSI... Loft, WQNR, KRCC, KRVO, KKCR... Over 350,000 scanned already “Melodically direct, sonically dynamic On tour now! “Kiss The Crystal Flake is ON: KTCZ, WBOS, WXRV, KINK, KWMT, and lyrically probing” - Paste Magazine beautifully intense pop of the highest order KGSR, WNCS, KPRI, WZEW, WDOD... More US tour dates coming soon and an early highlight of 2007!” - Harp Coming up... 5/29: Abra Moore “After All These Years”, Mike Farris “Can’t No Grave Hold My Body Down” People are running to see Pitchfork digs The Mother Hips “Music fans know the phrase “indefinite hiatus” as one filled The Polyphonic Spree with foreboding— it’s so often 5/27 The Gorge, WA 7/7 Cleveland, OH meant as a substitute for “done for” that’s practically viewed as a 6/23 Dallas, TX 7/8 Indianapolis, IN euphemism. When Mother Hips 6/24 Austin, TX 7/9 Milwaukee, WI began their indefinite break after crowning their career with 6/25 Houston, TX 7/10 Minneapolis, MN 2001’s excellent The Green Hills of Earth LP, it seemed logical that they might be hanging it up for good. They’d just 6/26 New Orleans, LA 7/14 Portland, OR dropped their best record, and the idea of going out on top 6/27 Atlanta, GA 7/15 Seattle, WA has at least some appeal to most people. Well, it turns out 6/29 Philadelphia, PA 7/17 San Francisco, CA they weren’t done after all, and on the evidence of Kiss the Crystal Flake, it’s a welcome return. 6/30 Washington, DC 7/18 Los Angeles, CA This, their sixth LP, follows on the heels of last year’s 7/1 Brooklyn, NY 7/20 San Diego, CA promising Red Tandy EP and doesn’t skip a beat getting back 7/2 Boston, MA 7/22 Denver, CO to the band’s rootsy mix of 70s rock and power pop. Songwriters Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono split the duties 7/6 Detroit, MI 7/23 Aspen, CO slightly in favor of Bluhm, which means the album as a whole 8/4 Lollapalooza is tilted just a bit more toward the power pop side. The sound is about as bread-and-butter rock’n’roll as you can get, mostly limited to the four band members with the occasional keyboard embellishment or trumpet. Both songwriters sound recharged, and the band, with new bass player Paul Hoaglin, seems glad to be back at it, taking time to jam a bit and let the guitars loose on a few songs, but always bringing it back to tight, melodic songcraft before things get out of hand. If anything, it reminds me of the direction Sloan has gone— using their muscle to reinforce their popcraft and not as an end in itself. Loiacono’s slowly churning, Tom Petty-influenced “Confirmation of More raves for Beaver Nelson Love” is a good example, using the hard downward strumming of the chorus as a mere table-setting for the really “By the age of 19 Beaver big hook, one powerfully delivered “she went down to Nelson was being hailed as a California,” that plays off all the charged meaning the name near genius by many of that state has acquired in the American subconscious. members of the music press. Bluhm chips in a couple of quality slow songs himself. “Let Although he never crossed Somebody” makes great use of the blend of Bluhm’s smooth into the mainstream, by the voice and Loiacono’s rougher tone on the chorus harmonies, late 90s Nelson had fulfilled while “Not So Independent” fakes you out with a stomping the hype with his acoustic guitar intro before settling back into a recollection of a based folk songs, becoming fireworks display at a beach party. On the higher tempo tip, “Time We Had” is one of the best pop songs in the band’s one of Austin, TX’s most catalog, with great doubled vocals from Bluhm and a brief beloved singer/songwriters. Crossing Townes Van guitar solo that sneaks in a new hook at the end. Loiacono’s Zandt, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits, “No-Name Darrell” is stuffed with Beatles chord progressions Nelson’s music is both honest and introspective, and and accomplished falsetto vocals, but shies away from a never without humor thrown in. After four critically typical song structure, instead moving through multiple ideas acclaimed albums, Nelson took up a job painting as they arise. houses and, inspired by the experience, came up with I can’t imagine anyone who followed Mother Hips in their a whole set of songs that make up his newest release, initial run being unhappy with this, and people who came on Exciting Opportunity. It’s another album that should board at the end for Green Hills will find the same forces that make the critics swoon and extend Nelson’s made that record so broadly appealing at work here. Kiss the is the sound of a refreshed band making as solid increasing cult following.” - ArtVoice (NY) Crystal Flake an album as they ever have.” Have you been to rightarmresource.com lately? * Click on the iPod to launch a Flash player which streams everything I’m working (bookmark it for the music meeting!) * Link to archived newsletters and the A/V blog featuring content including music videos, epk’s, performance audio & more For up-to-the-minute AAA news... RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER - 5/16/07