RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 11/25/2015 For your holiday programming: Amazon’s “Indie For The Holidays” The brand new playlist from Amazon Music, available for streaming for Prime members, and mp3 purchases by anyone Check it out at http://amazon.com/indiefortheholidays Full 25-song playlist available on PlayMPE, 19-song sampler physical cd on your desk Featuring original tracks and traditional favorites from Ivan & Alyosha, Bhi Bhiman, Family Of The Year, YACHT, Sondre Lerche & Jherek Bischoff, Reverend Horton Heat, Fruit Bats, Rogue Wave, Wild Child, Langhorne Slim, Avid Dancer, Born Cages, SOAK and many more Disclosure “Caracal” (album) The new album, featuring “Magnets” with Lorde, out now Over 80,000 sold in eight weeks! Video over 25mm views Mediabase 39*, BDS Monitored New & Active, FMQB Tracks Debut 46*! New: KFOG, WZEW, WCOO, WRXK, KMTN, KBAC, WYCE, WCBE... Already on KBCO, KINK, KCMP, WNCS, KXT, WEZZ, WRLT, WWCT, KROK, KSKI, WAPS, KPND, WYMS, WVOD, WCNR, KCRW, KEXP, KSKI... Played on SNL earlier this month with Lorde in the first slot, Sam Smith in the second slot Sold out US tour included Madison Square Garden Kacy Hill “Arm’s Length” The first single from her BLOO ep on G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam, going for adds now Download the single on All Access and grab the whole ep from my Dropbox New at KCMP, KROK Already on WAPS, KVNA, KCLC, WFIV and KSLU Premiered last month on Beats1 World First “Everything hinges on her strong-as-silk falsetto” - Pitchfork “One of the year’s most promising new artists” - Vulture “Powerful” - Pigeons & Planes “A key player for 2015” - Q Magazine Andra Day “Rise Up” The first single from Cheers To The Falls, in stores and on your desk now New at KPIG, KRVM Already on WRLT, KEXP, KCMP, WFUV, KUTX, WNRN, KCLC, WNCW, WCBE, WYCE, WFIV, KSMT, KSPN, KFMU, WMNF, KDHX... Playing on CNN Heroes Album features Raphael Saadiq, Stevie Wonder, ?uestlove... Used for a Beats By Dre/Serena Williams clip - over 15 million views Already performed on Kimmel, Good Morning America, Live with Kelly & Michael, A&E’s Shining A Light concert Elliot Moss “Best Light” The first single from his debut album Highspeeds, edit on PlayMPE, full cd in stores and on your desk Already on KBAC, WYCE, WOCM, KCLC, KVNA, WFIV, WCBE, WXRY, WERU, KSMF and KSLU “Moss was one of the festival’s youngest artists, but he showed rare maturity and dedication by letting his songs transcend normal genre constraints.” - Billboard (on his Eaux Claires Festival set) “Foggy, melancholy fuzzed-out folk with traces of brass and wobly electronics fraying the edges outward.” - Sterogum Just wrapped up dates with Wild Child Ben Caplan “I Got Me A Woman” From Birds With Broken Wings, on your desk and in stores now New at WEXT Already on WJCU, WFIV, WCBE, WYCE, WKZE, WUSM, KUNC, WUKY, KVNA, WHRV, KSLU... “Full of rousing choruses, eclectic instrumentation and dramatic and spooky lyricism. The songs are distant cousins to both Tom Waits and Gogol Bordello.” - CBC Music Watch two great live performances on our site Just wrapped up an extensive North American headlining run, more dates in 2016 Liz Vice “Empty Me Out” From her debut There’s A Light, in stores now Already on WXPN, KTBG, WYMS, Music Choice, WJCU, WYCE, WFIV, WCBE, WVMP, WNRN, WUMB, World Cafe, KRCC, KSUT, KVNA, WUKY, KDHX, KAXE, KVNF, MSPR, MPR, WERU and KSLU “The connection between gospel and 60s soul is reaffirmed on There’s A Light.” - NY Times Great press: NPR Weekend Edition, NBC News and much more Video premiered on WSJ’s Speakeasy blog NPR “Songs We Love” and World Cafe Next Just wrapped a national tour Vanessa Carlton “Operator” The first single from Liberman, in stores now New at WJCU, SiriusXM Coffeehouse Already on SiriusXM Coffeehouse, WJCU, WEZZ, KFLY, WYCE, WZLO, WCBE, WNCW, KSLU, KDEC, KRCC, KSNO, KZYR, WFIV, WVMP, Music Choice... “Fourteen years ago, Vanessa Carlton made a very popular song that will follow her around forever. Fair enough; it’s very catchy. But times have changed. Can’t Vanessa?” - Pitchfork Extenstive national tour going on now Video on our site now, recently featured on Buzzfeed Fantastic press all over, new feature in SPIN Greg Holden “Boys In The Street” The powerful second single from Chase The Sun Already on KFOG, KINK, WRLT, WXPN, KCMP, WFUV, WJCU, KVNA, KROK, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT, WDST, KRML, KTAO, WOCM, WZLO, KSNO, KZYR... Just toured with Vintage Trouble “I have a lot of gay friends and I know a lot of people who have been through the struggle of their family not understanding them. The song isn’t necessarily just supposed to be about a gay kid and his dad. That song is a really a song of acceptance on any sort of level.” - Greg Collective Soul “AYTA (Are You The Answer)” The first single from See What You Started By Continuing Mediabase 46*, BDS New & Active, FMQB Tracks 44*! New at KOHO Already on KBCO, KINK, KRVB, WTTS, WXRV, WXPK, WZEW, KCSN, WNCS, WJCU, WAPS, KROK, WFIV, KLRR, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT, WMWV, WOCM, WVOD, WVMP, KVNA... This is the band’s 21st year together and their ninth album overall National tour wraps up this week: 11/25 Nashville, 11/27 Chattanooga, 11/28 Myrtle Beach More touring coming in 2016 EL VY “Return To The Moon” The title track first single from the new project from Matt Berninger of The National and Brent Knopf, in stores now! Mediabase 8*, BDS Monitored 6*, Indicator 1* (3rd week), FMQB Tracks 2*, Public 1* (2nd week)! New: KXCI, WUTC, WDIY Already on SiriusXM, KGSR, KFOG, WXRT, KBCO, WTTS, KRVB, WRLT, KINK, WRNR, WXPK, KCSN, WCLZ, WXPN, WFUV, KCMP, WEZZ, KTHX, WCOO, KPND, WNCS, WTMD, WQKL, WWCT, WERS, WYMS, KUTX, KXT, WWNU, WEHM... Just wrapped US tour Darlingside “Go Back” The first single from Birds Say, in stores now New at WXPN Already on KCSN, WNCS, WRSI, WEXT, WCBE, WEHM, KNBA, WKZE, WMVY, WOCM, WYCE, WZLO, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT, KKAL, KRCC, WFIV, KHUM, KROK, WBJB, KSUT, KXCI, WUMB... Just toured with Patty Griffin “We just had Darlingside visit for a live in studio. Once I got my jaw off the floor I told the band we were moving them up to medium. We only added it last week. I am tough on bands and songs; Darlingside are just that good.” Zeb Norris/WNCS Austin Plaine “Never Come Back Again” The first single from his self-titled debut, in stores now Mediabase 50*, BDS Indicator #27, FMQB Tracks 31*! New at KCSN, WCLZ Already on WXRV, KINK, SiriusXM Coffeehouse, WRLT, WWNU, WEZZ, WCOO, WZEW, KPND, KRSH, WCNR, WVMP, KTAO, KRML, WEXT, WKZE, WJCU, KHUM, KKAL, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT, KOHO, WVOD, KSUT... Great licensing syncs already on multiple tv shows “[Plaine] has an approachable country-tinged style that comes through on his latest release.” - Billboard Communion Residency tour in December The Saint Johns “Shadowplay” The first single from their upcoming album, on PlayMPE Already on WRLT, WFPK, KNBA, WEXT, WJCU, WCBE, KBAC, WFIV, KVNA, KDBB The Saint Johns’ Jordan Meredith on their song to Paste, where the acoustic video was premiered: “This song was therapy for me. Sometimes a song can hit you in so many different places that it kind of breaks you open. That’s what ‘Shadowplay’ did to me.” Played with Jackie Greene this summer, performed at PRPD and on the road again Grace Potter “Empty Heart” From the album Midnight, in stores! Mediabase 15*, BDS Monitored 17*, Indicator 19*, FMQB Tracks #17! Already on KFOG, WXRV, WRNR, KINK, WRLT, WMMM, WNCS, WXPN, WQKL, KCSN, KRVB, WEZZ, WCLZ, WZEW, KPND, WCOO, KTHX, WWNU, KTBG, WJCU, WDST, WCNR, WTYD... Spin: “One of the best living voices in rock today.” Great press all over the place! On tour now and an extensive list of new 2016 tour dates has been announced! Just played for the troops in Qatar with Conan Gavin James “Bitter Pill” The title track single from his upcoming album, out in early 2016 Already on KRML, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT, KKAL, WJCU Toured for a month this summer with Sam Smith “This is a smash hit record from an incredible artist” - Zane Lowe/Beats 1 Just wrapped up an extensive month-long headlining run which also included a fantastic performance on the Late Late Show Gavin has had a busy year: touring with Kodaline, a show in Ireland with Ed Sheeran and more Ben Folds “Phone In A Pool” The first single from So There, in stores now FMQB Public #39! Already on WRLT, KCMP, KCSN, WERS, WFPK, WTMD, KPND, WCOO, KHUM, KMMS, KRML, KROK, KTAO, Music Choice, WDST, WEHM, WFIV, WUIN, WVMP, WVOD, XM Loft, WZLO... eTown recently aired! Just wrapped his fall tour with yMusic, and he’ll be playing the Kennedy Center in DC on 12/4 with the National Symphony Watch for another extensive tour run in the spring of 2016! W Magazine spotlights Kacy Hill as “Who’s Next” “Just before she hit the road with Kanye West in 2014, as a backup dancer on his Yeezus tour, Kacy Hill recorded a song almost on a whim. “Experience” is an austere synth-pop ballad, in the vein of James Blake or FKA Twigs, that throbs with feel- ing. It was one of the first tracks she ever wrote. “I didn’t even know songwriting structure,” Hill, 21, admits. She played it for a makeup artist on the tour, who passed it along to a stylist, and so on, until the track finally found its way to West, who asked Hill to meet him after the show. “I was sweating the whole time,” she recalls. “And I had on this really ugly jacket.” It didn’t seem to matter, because West signed her to his label G.O.O.D. Music, which will put out the Los Angeles singer’s debut album in early 2016 (she released an EP, Bloo, in October). It’s a startling trajectory, especially for someone who never really harbored chart-topping aspirations. She says she needed a year just to figure out what her music should not sound like (namely, “computer music”). What it does sound like is the propulsive work of a pop star - even if she doesn’t feel like one yet. “It’s still sur- real to me.”” - W Magazine, “Who’s Next” feature NME calls Disclosure’s new album “Dance Music For Grown-Ups” “The Footlocker funk of Disclosure’s 2013 de- but ‘Settle’ saw them shoot to Number One, go platinum and scoop up a host of Grammy, Mer- cury and Brit Award nominations. The album sounded like the future of house, birthing six singles (‘White Noise’ was the peak, reaching Number Two) and reinvigorating dancefloors by plundering 1990s UK garage and melding it with joyous pop. For the follow-up, Disclosure have decided to take things more seriously. On the glossily- produced ‘Caracal’ there seems, at first, to be something curiously out of cultural kilter with Guy and Howard Lawrence. Despite only being 24 and 21, the Surrey-bred siblings now seem old before their time, like the Benjamin Buttons of chart-house. Bringing in soulful vocalists like 43-year-old jazzman Gregory Porter on the skittering Balearic flashback ‘Hold- ing On’ and BBC Sound Of 2015 longlister Kwabs on the ever-so-slightly plodding ‘Willing & Able’ make them seem like the sensible face of hedonism; a trip to Ibiza with your uncle Nigel, an old maths teacher offering you a crappy pill, Mary Berry winking as she slips you a copy of the latest ‘Ministry Of Sound’ compilation. But what Disclosure do, they do incredibly well, notably the promotion of up-and-coming talent. Though a trio of superstars – Lorde, The Weeknd and Miguel – sprinkle significant stardust, the moments that impress most come on tracks that feature lesser-known artists, proving that when Disclosure lean more towards the un- derground, they’re that much more compelling. London singer Nao lends a lightness of touch to the fresh ‘Su- perego’, while the kind of effortlessness that oozed from the duo’s debut flashes on ‘Masterpiece’, a glimmer- glitch D’Angelo-style slowjam featuring the previously unknown Jordan Rakei, who Guy’s friend uncovered while travelling in Australia. Jillian Hervey, singer with NY soul duo Lion Babe, ushers in squelchy authenticity on ‘Hourglass’. There’s a conspicuous lack of the two-step flourishes that made ‘Settle’ such a rush here. In their place is a more thoughtful and considered approach, with Lorde bringing the smooth vocal style of her own single ‘Ten- nis Court’ to ‘Magnets’, or Sam Smith’s nasal “Oh oh oh”s over the wubs and bass of ‘Omen’. ‘Caracal’ is about Disclosure maturing, moving on and showing the listener how to rave respectably. This is dance music for grown-ups.” - NME, September 25 2015 (Rating: 4/5) RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 11/25/2015