RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 3/18/2020 Perfume Genius “On The Floor” The first single from Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, out 5/15 “The most piercing pop of this young decade.” - Rolling Stone Early at KTBG and KRML 90+ million total artist streams in the US! “The ambition and eccentricity are broader than ever.” - NY Times Scheduled for a summer tour with Tame Impala: 5/29 Chicago IL, 5/30 Milwaukee WI, 5/31 Detroit MI, 6/6 DC, 6/8 Charlotte NC... The Grahams “Kids Like Us” The title track single from their new album, out 3/27 Early: KRSH, KRML, KVYN, WFIV, KHUM, KDNK, KLRR, MPBC, KPIG The final album produced by Richard Swift “In harmony with one another throughout... A complete 180 from their previous releases, which were steeped in more Americana, bluegrass-y acoustics, Kids is orchestrated, more bombastic, and electric” - American Songwriter Trevor Hall “Put Down What You Are Carrying” (feat. Brett Dennen) Their new single, out this Friday Added early: WFIV, WBJB, WCLX, WTYD, KNBA, KRML Their combined tour has been pushed to August: 8/28 Miami FL, 8/29 St. Petersburg FL, 8/30 Daytona Beach FL, 9/1 Atlanta GA, 9/3 St. Louis MO, 9/4 Chicago IL, 9/6 Omaha NE, 9/8 Cleveland OH, 9/9 Detroit MI, 9/16 Philadelphia PA, 9/18 Silver Spring MD... G. Love “Diggin’ Roots” (feat. Ron Artis II) The second single from The Juice, produced by Keb’ Mo’ New: WYEP, WZLO ON: KJAC, KPND, KRSH, WCLX, KMTN, KRML, KSUT, WFIV, WOCM, KYSL, KROK, WYCE, WCLY, WCBE, KSMF, WUKY... “With Juice, Dutton rhymes and pipes over blues rock instrumentation with the same lax, idle-tongue enunciation of previous releases, but with elevated concepts… Every song in Juice earns its keep.” - American Songwriter Teddy Thompson “Heartbreaker Please” The title-track first single from his new album, out 5/8 ON: KJAC, KRSH, KOZT, WEXT, KNBA, WMVY, WCLX, WYCE, WUMB, WFIV, WMWV... “Extracted from the end of a relationship, Heartbreaker Please also references Thompson’s conflicted feelings about the city he loves—and hates. “I feel like all these years here have made me a New Yorker, but 20 years in New York can weigh you down.” - American Songwriter Mihali “Heart Song” feat. Citizen Cope The first single from Breathe and Let Go, out now ON: WDST, WYCE, WCBE, KMTN, WCLX, WFIV, WUKY, KRCC, KRVM Mihali is also the frontman for well-known New England band Twiddle Twiddle will be opening six of Vampire Weekend’s summer shows The March/April solo dates are being postponed, but he is playing this summer’s Levitate Festival in Marshfield MA Pokey LaFarge “End Of My Rope” The first single from Rock Bottom Rhapsody, out 4/10 New: WRLT, KCMP, Music Choice, WRSI, WFPK, KJAC, WAPS, KNBA, WCBE, XM Loft, WEXT, KPIG, WMVY, KSMF, KBAC, WUKY, WUSM, KSLU and more Scheduled for a run of tour dates in May “LaFarge’s first new album in over three years... brings folk music and rock ‘n’ roll together in a way that feels fresh.” - Paste 070 Shake “Guilty Conscience” From Modus Vivendi, out now ON: WRLT, WPYA, KXT, WCNR, WYMS, WWCT, KEXP, WCLX, KVYN, WCBE, WYCE, KCLC, WUTC Pronounced “Oh-Seven-Oh”, 070 references the first three numbers of the zip code in New Jersey that she hails from Toured last year with The 1975 Recently wrapped up a headlining tour, playing 400-500 capacity rooms, almost all sold out in advance Great Spotify numbers ZZ Ward “Break Her Heart” The first single from her upcoming album Mediabase #33, BDS Indicator 25*, JBE Tracks 39* ON: KINK, KGSR, WMMM, KRVB, Music Choice, WRLT, KCSN, WPYA, WWCT, WKLQ, WCLZ, WAPS... Still scheduled for GMA next week On the song: “No matter how much you try to change for someone else...... you can’t....you can only be what you are, and if they don’t see the beauty in that than F***em’!!!” Grace Potter “Back To Me” (feat. Lucius) The new single from Daylight Mediabase #32, BDS Monitored #34, Indicator 15*! New: WTMD, KSPN ON: WXRV, WXPN, WFUV, Music Choice, KCSN, WPYA, KXT, WFPK, WNCS, WEHM, WERS, WCNR, WAPS, WRSI, WCLZ... Postponed the remainder of her March tour dates “She has been heralded as one of the greatest living vocalists in rock music, and that point remains arguable on Daylight” - Paste Katie Pruitt “Expectations” The title track from her Rounder release, out now Mediabase 43*, BDS Monitored New & Active, Indicator Debut 37*, JBE Public 34*! New: WERS, KTAO, WZLO, KVNF, KAXE ON: WRLT, WXPN, Music Choice, KTHX, WCLZ, WPYA, KJAC, WTMD, KXT, WFPK, WCNR, WDST, KVYN... “There’s something wonderfully nostalgic about Expectations... rustles up the timeless, infinite feeling of being young and limitless” - Rolling Stone Robbie Robertson “Once Were Brothers” The new single from Sinematic This is also the title song for the Once Were Brothers documentary about The Band, execu- tive produced by Martin Scorsese ON: WEXT, WCLX, WFIV, WMVY, KPIG, WKZE, KOZT, KSUT, KBAC, KUWR, KRVM The film blends rare archival footage and interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Scorsese and more Pearl Jam “Dance Of The Clairvoyants” The first single from Gigaton, in stores 3/27 90+ stations on board - Mediabase panel totally closed out! Mediabase 1* (THANK YOU!), BDS Monitored 2*, Indicator #2, JBE Public 2*! Multiple videos released - check out my site This is their first studio album since their Grammy-winning Lightning Bolt Postponed their spring tour dates Pete Yorn “I Wanna Be The One” The follow up to the top 5 hit “Calm Down” from his album Caretakers Mediabase 31*, BDS Monitored #2 New & Active, Indicator 24* New: WQKL ON: KINK, KGSR, WMMM, WRNR, WRLT, KCSN, WPYA, Music Choice, KXT, WZEW, WAPS, WWCT, KYMK, WCOO, WCLX, KVYN, KRSH, KJAC, KVOQ, WNRN, WTMD, WCNR, KMTN, WVMP, KSPN, KRML... Cool lyric video and interview premiered on Space.com Kaleo “I Want More” The first AAA single from their forthcoming album Mediabase 12*, BDS Monitored 14*, Indicator 8*! New: KTAO ON: KBCO, SiriusXM Spectrum, KGSR, KINK, WXRV, KCMP, WRLT, WMMM, CIDR, KTHX, WXPK, WQKL, WKLQ, KRVB, Music Choice, KXT, WYEP, WCLZ, WNCS, WTMD, WPYA, KPND, WFPK, KJAC, KTBG... Extensive 2020 national tour schedule announced Green Day “Oh Yeah” The new single from Father Of All..., out now Mediabase 23*, BDS Monitored 19*, Indicator 18*! Top 10 at Rock and Alt ON: KGSR, WRNR, WXRV, WMMM, KCMP, KRVB, WXPK, KCSN, WFPK, WWCT, WNCS, WXCT, KPND, WZEW, WKLQ, WAPS, WQKL, WEHM, WCNR... TV: Ellen, The Late Late Show, GMA First week: #1 Billboard album sales, #4 on the Top 200! Big summer tour Dustbowl Revival “Dreaming” From Is It You, Is It Me, out now BDS Indicator 33*, JBE Public 51*! ON: WRLT, KCSN, WFPK, Music Choice, WRSI, KTBG, KRSH, WCLX, KYSL, WCLY, KNBA, KVYN, KMTN, WEXT, WVMP... “After ten years of touring together and amassing a passionate and loyal following worldwide, Dust- bowl Revival embarks on a new journey... thus proving that great bands never stop evolving as they simply refuse to stand still.” - American Songwriter Rolling Stone takes a look at the new Perfume Genius video “Perfume Genius, a.k.a. Mike Hadreas, has dropped his new song “On the Floor.” The track is off the upcoming album Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, out May 15th via Matador Records. Directed by Hadreas himself, the song’s video features Hadreas topless, smoking a cigar. He dances around a field of dirt, rolling around on the ground and doing crunches on a stack of tires. “I pace, I run my mouth/I pray and wait,” he sings over a synth-pop beat. “I cross out his name on the page.” Three and a half minutes into the clip, Hadreas splits into two and dances with himself. “A crush can really live on its own, separate from you and the person you are pining for,” Hadreas said of the song in a state- ment. “The fantasy feels like its own world, obsession can turn the person you are longing for into a monument that has less and less to do with them and more to do with the idea of love itself and what it can do, what it can soothe or quiet or light on fire.” He added: “I wanted to show that maddening, solitary part of desire but keep the core, which is a real warmth and belief that you have something crucial to share with each other.” “On the Floor” follows the lead single “Describe.” Set My Heart on Fire Immediately is Hadreas’ fifth album, after 2017’s No Shape. The new LP was produced by Blake Mills and features contri- butions from legendary session drummer Jim Keltner, bassist Pino Palladino and others. On May 29th, Hadreas will kick off a summer tour supporting Tame Impala. They’ll hit major North American cities that include a June 11th show at Miami’s AmericanAirlines Arena. The trek will conclude at the Gorge Amphiteatre in George, Washington, on August 7th.” - Rolling Stone, 3/16/2020 The Nation looks closely at the rise of 070 Shake “On the cover of her debut album, Modus Vivendi, New Jersey rapper 070 Shake strikes a fascinating pose. She’s styled to look like an android; her body, save for her face, is encased in glinting metal. Her skin is smooth and vibrant, and “070,” the name of her rap crew and the first three digits of her hometown zip code, is printed above one of her cheekbones in neat black ink. Metal tubes jut from her head and torso, stretching into an orange band that glows like a hot flame. They have the look of constraints and imply danger, but Shake appears unbothered, as if everything is going according to plan. On Modus Vivendi, that mix of coolness, vulnerability, and ambiguity characterizes Shake’s work. A bit of a stargazer, she’s constantly turning to the cosmos for answers, finding purpose in the mysteries of the universe. Her music has an expansive, exploratory feel, as though she were simultaneously mapping the stars by observing them from afar and visiting them in person. Bridging rap, R&B, emo, and synth pop, Shake follows her instincts rather than a rubric, resulting in songs that feel both unmoored and dynamic. She began making music in 2015, uploading broody R&B songs to SoundCloud and falling in with the 070 collective, a loose cohort of Garden State producers and vocalists. The next year, on the strength of her song “Proud” and some serendipitous industry connections, she was signed by Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label. It had been barely a year since she’d penned her first song. She lay dormant until the infamous 2018 Wyoming sessions that produced Pusha T’s album Daytona, Kanye West’s ye, and Kanye and Kid Cudi’s Kids See Ghosts. Her breakout moment, a spotlight-stealing refrain on Kanye’s song “Ghost Town,” endeared her as a balladeer and a dramatist. “And nothing hurts anymore, I feel kinda free / We’re still the kids we used to be / I put my hand on a stove / To see if I still bleed,” she sings, turning pain and anguish into liberation. Shake’s voice is smooth and powerful yet husky and raw, allowing her to belt big, schmaltzy notes that are emotive with- out sounding sappy. These qualities are well suited to the modern rap landscape, which over the past decade has tweaked rawness to connote texture and temperature as much as emotional authenticity. Even though their music is awash in vocal effects that superficially sound synthetic and corroded, today’s rappers like to see themselves as unvarnished and genuine because software like Auto-Tune helps them to articulate their inner voice. During the mixing of Modus Vivendi, Shake told Pitchfork, “I need to distort some vocals, make it more real. I don’t want to make it better, I want to make it worse.” This comment clearly marks Shake as a child of the current druggy, robo-soul era of rap (and a close student of Kanye, a notorious tinkerer and perfectionist), but she’s also a bit of a maverick. Throughout Modus Vivendi, her inner voice is fluctuating and chimeric, defined less by a stable persona and more by constant curiosity and flux. On “Rocketship” she ascends, addicted to the high of a new love. “I’m in need for that rush / Like a tree need the sun,” she sings, her voice fizzing apart on the last word. On “Divorce” the high mood smolders into a dreamy clarity; Shake’s voice is feathery and svelte as she narrates a breakup over streaks of electric guitar and a pitter- patter of drums. “Bones and soil / Fertilize / Face your fear / And face the truth,” she warbles. Celestial and earth-centered imagery appears often, giving her music a mystical bent. “The Pines,” her take on the folk- standard murder ballad “In the Pines,” plays like a love story. While many renditions of the song, most famously Nirvana’s and Lead Belly’s, liken the wilderness and the song’s female protagonist to darkness and danger, Shake casts her as a seductive bad girl. “Yes, I’m young, but I know just what I like,” she raps defensively, trekking deeper into the woods. Shake is particularly fond of the moon, which represents something different every time she mentions it. When she’s in love, moonlight feels better than sunlight (“Rocketship”), whereas when she’s in lust (“Under the Moon”), what happens under the moon goes unsaid. On the downswing (“Guilty Conscience”) the morning moon, described as “jaded, faded, almost gone,” symbolizes love in remission. The lunar imagery may be overused, but it’s effective: Shake seems to mention it more out of fascination than reflex, as if she’s awed that there is a natural precedent for her penchant for change. This attention to scenery and setting is aided by Shake’s producers, who provide lush, strobing backdrops that twinkle and shimmer beneath her quicksilver vocals. The main architects are Dave Hamelin, a Canadian indie rocker, and Mike Dean, a mainstay in the G.O.O.D. Music producer corps, who mixed every song on the album. Together they fill the record with liquid synths, psychedelic keys, and fluid drum sequences that diffuse through Shake’s voice like light through water. The result is a record that is dense, teeming, and airy all at once, as on the frenzied outros to “Microdosing” and “The Pines,” which flare like light shows. For Shake, that pursuit of a “worse” sound doesn’t preclude beauty. Ultimately, it feels telling that Shake doesn’t recruit any big-name guests for the record. From start to finish, Modus Vivendi is rooted in her voice and vision. Though her writing can be lackluster and her mysticism vague, her confidence and restlessness are disarming. With her wonder alone, she makes the world feel magical and mysterious. Compared with where other Kanye protégés like Travis Scott, Big Sean, and Chance the Rapper were at this stage in their careers, Shake is both miles ahead and plotting a different journey altogether. Perhaps that’s why she seems so unfazed on the album cover. This is only phase one for her.” - The Nation, 2/13/2020 Going for adds March 30: The Pretenders “The Buzz,” White Reaper “Real Long Time” RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 3/18/2020