RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 3/10/2021 Aaron Lee Tasjan “Don’t Overthink It” The new single from Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!, out now with fantastic reviews Early: WRLT, KCSN, WUIN, WTYD, KSMF, WJCU, WMVY, KRVM “A triumphant progression, merging all Tasjan’s varied strands of his musical DNA into a genuine tour- de-force” - Rolling Stone “His best album yet” - Associated Press Watch the video on my site WXPN Free At Noon 3/26 Ten Kills The Pack “Body” The first single from his new EP Life, Death, and Afterwards, out now New: WCBE, KLRR Early: WJCU, KRVM, KSLU Hailing from Toronto, his real name is Sean Sroka The name ‘Ten Kills The Pack’ comes from a card game that he plays with friends “By weaving together universal themes, Sroka has established Ten Kills the Pack as a leading voice in modern folk music.” - Exclaim Cas Haley “All The Right People” The title track single from his new album, out now New: WNCW, WZLO, KSUT, KNBA, WBSD, WHRV, KUWR, KDNK ON: WCBE, WCLX, KSMF, WYCE, WFIT, MSPR “A breezy, instantly memorable singalong that allows you to surround yourself with positivity and good people.” - American Songwriter “Cas’ songs are folk songs - ones that will still be sung 100 years from now - THAT is his gift.” - Jon Batiste Edie Brickell & New Bohemians “Sleeve” and “Stubborn Love” Two new singles for radio to choose from, take your pick From their new album Hunter And The Dog Star, out now New: MSPR, KAXE ON: KCSN, WEHM, KYSL, WNCW, WCBE, WVMP, KNBA, KSMF, WMWV, KSUT, WYCE, KXCI, WUKY, WUTC, XM Loft… Playing on Fallon 3/18! This is the band’s 5th studio album “A remarkably uplifting effort...” - American Songwriter (Rating: 4/5) William The Conqueror “Wake Up” From their new album Maverick Thinker, out now New at WZLO ON: KJAC, WDST, WCLY, WCLX, KROK, WVMP, KRML, KSMF,WCBE, WBJB, WNCW, WYCE, KUWR, WFHB... “Whip-smart indie rock that harks back to Stateside influences - we’re hearing aspects of Speedy Ortiz and Pavement - alongside that scratchy, UK indie sound, the West Country group are moving in their own lane.” - Clash Music Kaleo “Break My Baby” The new single from Surface Sounds, out 4/23 Mediabase 24*, BDS Monitored 23*, Indicator #12! New: WRNR, WCOO, KTBG, WARQ ON: KBCO, WXRV, WRLT, KRVB, KCMP, Music Choice, WQKL, WCLZ, WXPK, WPYA, WTMD, WNCS, WCNR, WERS, WZEW, KVYN, WCLX, KVOQ, KJAC, KVNA, KPND, WAPS... “The pounding beat and JJ’s breathless wail are practically hair-raising in their unquenchable desire...” - Atwood Magazine Tune-Yards “hold yourself.” The first single from sketchy., out 3/26 Mediabase 38*, BDS Monitored 32*, JBE Albums 24*! New: WCLZ, KRSH, KYMK… ON: WXRV, WRNR, WRLT, WXPN, WFUV, KCMP, KCSN, WFPK, WYEP, KTBG, KXT, Music Choice, WPYA, WYMS, WTMD, KVOQ, KJAC, WCNR, WZEW... Played Colbert “Centered around Garbus’ powerhouse vocals, the gauzy, bass-heavy beat ballad delivers a potent message of self-empowerment” - Pitchfork LP “How Low Can You Go” Her new single, going for adds now BDS Monitored Debut 39*, JBE Tracks Debut 47*! New: KROK, KDTR ON: KBCO, WRLT, WRNR, Music Choice, WXPK, WPYA, KTBG, KXT, WYMS, WCNR, KVOQ, KUTX, WAPS, WTMD, WDST, KVNA... Over 6MM streams since its November release Fall 2021 tour scheduled Nearly 5MM monthly listeners on Spotify Official video and livestream full-band performance online now Weezer “All My Favorite Songs” From OK Human, out now Mediabase 4*, BDS Monitored 3*, Indicator 1* (3rd week), Mediabase Alt 9*, JBE Tracks 2*! ON: SiriusXM, WXRT, KBCO, KINK, KGSR, WRNR, WXRV, WRLT, WMMM, KRVB, WXPK, Music Choice, KCMP, WFUV, KCSN, WQKL, WKLQ, WPYA, WFPK, WYEP, WNCS, KVOQ, KTBG, WAPS, WCNR... Recorded last summer with a 38 piece orchestra Stadium tour planned Great album reviews Passenger “Sword From The Stone” From Songs For The Drunk And Broken Hearted, out now Played on Kimmel! Mediabase 23*, BDS Monitored 25*, Indicator 13*! Mediabase Hot AC 26*! New: KBCO, KRSH, KKAL, KBAC… ON: WRLT, KINK, WMMM, WXRV, KRVB, WPYA, Music Choice, WXPK, WCLZ, KCSN, WAPS, KPND, WCNR, KJAC... Streaming over 500K/week “…a hauntingly beautiful collection of Americana gold, and likely Passenger’s finest and most focused record yet.” - Glide Taylor Swift feat. The National “coney island” From evermore, her second surprise album Mediabase 16*, BDS Monitored 20*, Indicator #27 New: KGSR ON: SiriusXM Spectrum, WXRV, WRLT, WRNR, WFUV, WMMM, KCSN, KXT, KVOQ, KRVB, WPYA, WNCS, KTHX, WQKL, WKLQ, WCNR, KPND, WTMD, WYEP, WFPK, Music Choice, WWCT... “evermore is even better than folklore, thanks to greater sonic cohesion and stronger songwriting.” - AV Club The Black Crowes “Charming Mess” From the deluxe Shake Your Money Maker, out now Mediabase 26*, BDS Monitored #34, Indicator 22*! ON: WXRT, KBCO, SiriusXM, KGSR, WXRV, WRLT, WXPK, WFUV, WXPN, WCLZ, WYEP, KCSN, WFPK, Music Choice, WCNR, WTMD, WNCS, KTHX, WZEW, WPYA... Originally set to be the band’s first single, but was left off of the album “We had plenty of hit songs on that record; I guess we didn’t need it.” - Chris Bahamas “Trick To Happy” From Sad Hunk Mediabase #39, BDS Monitored #40, Indicator #15! ON: WXRV, WRLT, WRNR, WPYA, Music Choice, WFPK, KCSN, KXT, WCLZ, WNCS, KTBG, KVOQ, WCNR, WYEP, KJAC, WTMD, WCLY, WNRN, KRSH, KVYN... Recently played on Kimmel with The Teskey Brothers “Surround yourself with good people. If someone’s in your life, and they’re just giving you bullshit, cut them out— don’t waste your time on that.” - Afie to American Songwriter Future Islands “Plastic Beach” From As Long As You Are, out now Mediabase 32*, BDS Monitored #27, Indicator 25*! ON: WXRV, WXPK, KCMP, WFUV, KCSN, Music Choice, WRLT, KRVB, WTMD, KTBG, WYEP, KVOQ, WPYA, WYMS, WFPK... “Herring steals the spotlight again on “Plastic Beach,” perhaps the most Future Is- lands-y song on this album. While he’s often fighting valiantly to win the love of someone else, here, rather, he’s struggling through a long battle to self-love.” - Paste Julien Baker “Faith Healer” From Little Oblivions, out now Mediabase 17*, BDS Monitored 14*, Indicator 10*, JBE Albums 4*! New: KXT, KPND, WCBE, KAXE ON: KBCO, WXRV, WRLT, KRVB, Music Choice, KCMP, WFUV, WXPN, KCSN, WYEP, WQKL, KTHX, WPYA, WFPK, WYMS, KVOQ, KTBG, WCLZ... Great Virtual Summit Fest set! “Not only the most richly produced, pop-aware release of Baker’s career, but also her most unsparingly honest in its messiness.” - Rolling Stone MXDWN shares their thoughts on Edie Brickell & New Bohemians’ new album “In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, the world was excited by a new musical fad: jam bands. A sort of clash between the organized chaos of jazz and the electricity of rock ‘n’ roll, the scene began to take shape and influence others. Some of those influenced were Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. Hailing from Dallas, this group caught the aftershock of the initial movement and added their own Texas flare. The 1980s saw their first success with their double-platinum debut album, Shooting Rubberbands at the Stairs, which features their most well-known song, “What I Am.” Since then, Brickell and her band of troubadours have only released three other albums until Hunter and the Dog Star, which they released in February. Showcasing the breadth of genres that have defined them over the years, this album and group’s versatility is anything but unimpressive. The album opens with a punch to the face in “Sleeve,” beginning with an aggressive drum beat, bass and guitars that sound as if Flea and Jerry Garcia got together to jam a little. Brickell’s light, high-pitched voice then dances on top of the instrumentation, which then evolves into a melodic and emotional chorus listing some of the things that appear on this tattoo “sleeve.” This song shows their ability to “jam” purposefully and create a catchy and authentic track. “Don’t Get In The Bed Dirty” accidentally came to Brickell on a walk. It started with that notion alone: don’t get in the bed dirty. This idea formed into a fun song about loving the one you’re with and having the respect not to “get in the bed dirty.” So far the most popular track on the album, the fourth song brings people to “Stubborn Love.” A dampened keyboard and drums give off a dingy feeling leading perfectly into the first line, “late at night at the bowling alley, Motown and cold beer.” Brickell and company continue to tell the simple yet human story of a love affair with a bowling alley attendant turned mother, then ex, then a corpse. This song showcases the alternative in their sound. Jumping around again genre-wise, their native Texan gives way to an acoustic guitar and a story about a “sunny girl living in Abilene” in the contemplative “Rough Beginnings.” Country gives to pop-punk in the next song, “Tripwire.” “Ohs” and “woahs” play over a slamming drum beat between quick and punchy lyrics. Listeners of modern alternative music like The 1975 or Young the Giant would be highly susceptible to the fun that this song brings. “Horse’s Mouth” is the next song on the track to get the Country treatment and is the only explicit song on the entire record. A satirical commentary on the lies that sometimes can be spewed and skewed, Brickell argues that “you don’t hear it from the horse’s mouth, you’re hearing it from a horse’s ass.” The best song on the album comes with track number nine in the slowed down, rhythmic “Miracles.” Guitars guide along the melody as a simple drumbeat gives the steady, relaxing presence that is only exacerbated by Brickell’s voice. Reflecting on “miracles seen with [her] own eyes,” the group could not have chosen a better instrumentation and cadence to support this introspection. “My Power” is the final showing of Edie Brickell & New Bohemians’ ability to create incredible music while being able to jump around to different sounds. Loud and striking, a synth greets you into a rolling rock drum kit and guitars. The fun does not stop in the last song on the album, in some sense, much of the fun of the project was left to this song. As lively as it is empowering, the music again backs up the message of the song. Though maybe not the “best” on the album, it deserves the respect that is given to the last track. Listening through an album many times can be challenging. Voices, sounds and rhythms blend together leaving a listener feeling as though they couldn’t pick out a song or two that stood out to them. This album was not like that. Not only could Edie Brickell & New Bohemians jump around from genre to genre, but the effortless fashion in which they did would impress even the most casual listeners. Country, alternative, pop, punk and rock were all represented incredibly and cohesively, making this an album that would cater to music fans everywhere.” - MXDWN, 3/9/21 Folk Radio (UK) gives high praise to William The Conqueror “Hitting the ground running, this third outing by William the Conqueror, Ruarri Joseph’s muscular band project, a southern rock three-piece guitar band, southern as in the southern states, is a slice of uplifting and unrelenting joy. Quite how a Scot, raised partly in New Zealand and now resident in Cornwall, can nail this style is masterful alchemy, not least if you can recall his earlier iteration as a sensitive singer songwriter. It kicks off with ‘Move On’, a beauty of a song, ushered in by some tastefully picked twang, ahead of the band scuzzying in together, adding some grown-up grunge, the verses near narrated, a clarion call to dismissing any unsatisfactory past. Another cautionary tale comes in the form of an intelligent chug, ‘The Deep End’. If the structure is possibly generic, the country-rock flavours permeate into an alto- gether headier broth, the 60s keyboard a neat addition as the song builds. By now my smile is broad. Needing a change of pace, the lyrically acerbic ‘Alive at Last’, is a slower canter which leaves you totally unprepared for the following ‘Jesus Died a Young Man’, a Tom Robinson-like swagger story through the possible legacy and effect of the subject matter. Needing a moment to engage, it is worth that moment, and is a triumphant surge into a direction the earlier songs leave you unprepared for. And unprepared you are for, then, the acoustic near whimsy of ‘The Quiet Life’, back now more in a west coast vibe, aptly, the record having been made in L.A. The song builds, verse by verse, layer by layer, with the piano and the backing vocals perfect. Those vocals are presumably courtesy bassist, Naomi Holmes, whose bass is never intrusive, yet always melodic. ‘Wake Up’, at just over halfway, and track two, side two on the vinyl, in itself as good rationale for that format as any, does exactly as it says, a lively career around the walls, displaying well the drums of Harry Harding, Joseph’s longstanding percussion ‘octopus’, propelling it into the next track, with nary a pause. With some walking bass and a hint of muted feedback, ‘Fiction’ opens with a jaunty Hey, William, and is another self-referencing deprecation that is endearing me further to this project. Joseph’s voice manages to both hang onto melody, yet seem, at the same time, to be in conversation. More pause for reflection with the slow blues of ‘Suddenly Scared’, shrouded in fuzzed guitar and, again, the vocal counterpoint of Holmes. Not for the first time I am hearing echoes of Robbie Krieger, of all people, in Joseph’s fretwork. Or maybe this is the production of Joseph Lorge, whose subtle in- ferences add the colour that makes this album the progression it is from the earlier self-produced discs. ‘Reasons’ has the return of the sleazy keyboards, and is perhaps the most straightforward rocker, Harding’s drums again a delight, those sounds together lifting it above the routine, preparing the scene well for closer and title track, ‘Maverick Thinker’. Like the last track on “side one”, this is gentler and more introspective, buoyed by a drifting accordion over acoustic guitar and the steady foundation of the rhythm section. As the piano enters, echoes of caledo- nian soul seep in, and the song, at six and a half min- utes is stunning, a convincing and confident way to end a memorable and momentous record. Ruarri Joseph has surpassed himself here. While it’s a great band effort, melodically and lyrically it displays the coming of age of this writer and performer. He de- serves your attention.” - Folk Radio (UK), 3/5/21 Coming up... 3/22: Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors “I Need To Go Somewhere”... 3/29: Bendigo Fletcher “Evergreen”… 4/5: Dumstaphunk, Major Spark RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 3/10/2021