RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 4/6/2016 Broods “Free” Their new single, on PlayMPE and going for adds on Monday “a big blast of synth-pop, wrapped in meaty chords and dark undertones. It’s not a far stretch from their previous material, but it does reveal an edgier side of band we haven’t seen be- fore.” - IndieCurrent US dates: 4/6 San Jose, 4/8 Los Angeles, 4/9 Las Vegas, 4/12 Broomfield CO, 4/13 West Valley City UT Bernhoft “Stop/Shutup” The first single from his Stop/Shutup/Shout It Out ep, available May 6 and going for adds now Early: WOCM, WFIV “Conjuring the raw sound of Richie Havens and Sly Stone with the spirit of Mayer Hawthorne and Sharon Jones, Bernhoft is so obviously a star that it feels only a matter of time before he breaks stateside” - LA Times US tour dates kick opff May 9 The Young Wild “Not A One” Their debut single, on AllAccess and in my Dropbox now First week: WXRV, WCLZ, WCOO, WTMD, KTAO Early: KINK, Music Choice, KMTN, WJCU, WFIV, WOCM, KVNA On tour this month with Atlas Genius: 4/20 Boston, 4/21 New Haven, 4/23 Charlotte, 4/25 Tulsa, 4/26 Dallas, 4/27 Houston, 4/29 Phoenix, 4/30 Los Angeles Announcing more soon Calliope Musicals “Echo of the Whoos” The first single from Time Owes You Nothing, in stores 4/15 and on your desk now New: WVMP, KRCC, KAXE Already on: WFIV, WCBE, KVNA “Who brings a confetti cannon to a fun fight? Calliope Musicals does.” - NPR Music/All Songs Considered “Psychedelic throwback rock meets folk tunes” - Glide Magazine Upcoming dates with Shakey Graves Barns Courtney “Fire” Blowing up at AAA! Mediabase 18*, BDS Monitored 21*, Indicator 14*, FMQB Tracks 16*! US tour dates going on now New: WXRV, KCSN, WRNR, WBJB, Music Choice, WMWV, KHUM, Open Air, WSGE Already on SiriusXM Spectrum, KFOG, WXRT, KBCO, KGSR, KINK, WNCS, WMMM, WRLT, WXPK, WCLZ, WEZZ, KRVB, KPND, KTBG, KCMP, WTMD, WZEW, WCNR, WAPS... City and Colour “Wasted Love” The second single from If I Should Go Before You Mediabase 43*, BDS New & Active, FMQB Tracks Debut 40*! New: WZEW, WUSM Already on WRNR, WXPK, WRLT, WEZZ, CIDR, KTHX, KPND, WCLZ, KRSH, WFPK, WTMD, WYEP, WCNR, KTAO, WLKR, WFIV, WOCM, KCLC, WBJB, WJCU, WNRN, WYCE... Playing at Boston Calling on 5/28 and supporting Ben Harper at Red Rocks on 6/28 Greg Laswell “Lifetime Ago” From the album Everyone Thinks I Dodged A Bullet, in stores now Already on SiriusXM Loft, KBAC, KFLY, WFIV, WJCU, WCBE, WYCE, KVNA, KCLC, KUWR, KDBB, WFIT, KDNK, KVNF, WERU, KAXE, MSPR and WHRV Fantastic iTunes sales! “Only a precious few [break- up songs] can genuinely bond author and listener through a viscerally shared sense of that particularly tortured experience.” - BlackBook Victoria Reed “Nothing To Lose” The first single from Chariot, in stores now New: WCBE Already on WJCU, KCLC, WYCE, WFIV, KVNA, KRCC, MSPR, KAXE, WERU “With a Stevie Nicks knack for songwriting and a folksy pop sound, the album bleeds authenticity” - Paste On tour with Citizen Cope: 4/6 Boston, 4/7 Tarrytown NY, 4/8 Huntington NY, 4/9 Atlantic City More dates coming up Joe Bonamassa “Drive” From the new cd Over 25K scanned first week! #5 Top 200 Current Albums, #1 Blues, #2 Independent New: WCBE, WMWV, WAPS, KSLU... Already on: WXPK, WNCS, KPND, KCSN, XM Loft, KRSH, WZEW, Music Choice, KPIG, KBAC, KOZT, KROK, KYSL, WFIV, WVMP, WVOD, WZLO, KCLC, KSUT, WBJB, WEXT, WYCE, WOCM, WMVY... Extensive tour starts 4/23 The Saint Johns “Lost The Feeling” The first single from Dead Of Night, in stores and on your desk now New: WWNU, KHUM, KRML, KRCC... Already on KINK, WRLT, WEZZ, WCLZ, KPND, KRSH, WCOO, WBJB, WAPS, WCNR, KBAC, WFPK, WTMD, WZEW, KTAO, Music Choice, WFIV, WVOD, WCBE, WEXT, KCLC... Judah The Lion tour: 4/6 Fayetteville, 4/7 Dallas, 4/8 Austin, 4/9 Houston, 4/10 Fort Worth... Darlingside “White Horses” The new single from Birds Say New: KCLC Already on: KCSN, WNCS, WXPN, WRSI, WEXT, WDST, KROK, KNBA, KRCL, WFIV, WKZE, KSUT, KVNA... “XPN listeners are really responding to this band - and that says it all. The band is selling tickets and fans are buying their music and their profile continues to grow. Plus the record is undeniable on the airwaves.” - Bruce Warren On tour now and playing NON-COMM Supersonic Blues Machine “West Of Flushing, South Of Frisco” (album) The new collaboration of Texas guitarist Lance Lopez, producer Fabrizio Grossi and drummer Kenny Aronoff, featuring the talents of their good friends , Walter Trout, Billy Gibbons, Robben Ford, Eric Gales and Chris Durante Already on WEXT, WYCE, WCBE, WFIV, KYSL, KVNA, KRCC, KDBB, KDNK, KVNF, KAXE Check out “Remedy” featuring Warren Haynes Lapsley “Hurt Me” From the new album Long Way Home New at KRML Already on WXRV, WEZZ, WYMS, WAPS, KROK, KCLC, WYCE, WFIV, KRCC, KVNA... “XL Recordings has released music by understated indie staples The XX and superstar diva Adele, and the label’s latest signing, Laps- ley, is something like the halfway point between those two talents.” - Stereogum Playing Coachella and touring the US in April & May Ben Abraham “You and Me” The first single from Sirens, in stores now New at KDBB Already on WFIV, WEXT, KSUT, KBAC, WYCE, WCBE, KRCC, KNVA, WFHB, KDNK, WYSO, KVNF, KXCI, WUSM... Tour dates with Damien Jurado in May and June “It really is beautiful - Abraham’s natural, easy charm and soft vocals complement the elegance of the video, and the overall effect is quite touching” - The Independent Lily & Madeleine “For The Weak” The first single from Keep It Together, their third album and debut for New West, in stores and on your desk On tour now Already on WTTS, WYCE, KRCC, WUKY, KNBA, KAXE, KDEC, WFIV, WFHB, WUMB, KSUT, KDNK, KUWR, KCLC, WFIT, KDHX... “Indianapolis-born sisters Lily & Madeleine fold stunning harmonies into brushed drums, dreamy strings, and soft keys - and fade into you in the progress.” - NYLON Graham Nash “This Path Tonight” The title track single from his new album, in stores 4/15, his first solo record of new music in 14 years Great press New: KXCI, WUMB, KDHX, KAXE, KUWR Already on WNCS, KCSN, XM Loft, WAPS, WCBE, KOZT, WFIV, WZLO, KSUT, WEXT, KPIG, WMNF... Graham is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Hall of Fame inductee, Grammy Award winner and Officer of the Order of the British Empire EL VY “Need A Friend” The follow up single to “Return To The Moon” BDS Indicator #21, FMQB Tracks #40! New: WVMP Already on WXRT, KINK, WRLT, WMMM, WEZZ, KCMP, KCSN, WFUV, WFPK, KUTX, KRSH, WCOO, WZEW, WFIV, WDST, WJCU, WNRN, KMMS... “The duo play off each other’s strengths--Knopf’s kaleidoscopic art rock and Berninger’s impressionistic storytelling -- to skim the best of both worlds.” - Boston Globe SIMO “Long May You Sail” Pronounced SY-mo The first single from Let Love Show The Way, in stores and on your desk now Already on WXPN, WRLT, KRSH, KRML, WCBE, WEXT, WBJB, KTAO, WFIV, WYSO, WYCE, KHUM, KVNA, WUSM, KDBB, MSPR, KAXE, KVNF... “JD Simo spins soulful psychedelic with improvisational bent reminiscent of the Grateful Dead and Stevie Ray Vaughn” - Rolling Stone Ben Rector “Brand New” The title track from his latest album, in stores now Mediabase AAA 28*, FMQB Tracks #46, MB Hot AC 16*! On tour now Already on KGSR, KBCO, KINK, KRVB, WRLT, WZEW, WCLZ, KFLY, WQKL, KPND, WCOO, WCNR, KCLC, KFMU, KRML, KSMT, KSPN, WFIV, WOCM, WVOD, WVMP, KROK, WMSR, KKAL, KMTN, KVNA... Single and album sales moving up each week! Violent Femmes “Memory” The first single from We Can Do Anything, in stores now via PIAS Great performances on Colbert ON: WFUV, WXPN, WYEP, WYMS, WJCU, WCNR, KCLC, WFIV, KSUT... “The latest song from Violent Femmes feels like a classic” - Robin Hilton/NPR Extensive tour schedule kicks off on the west coast on May 2 Fantastic sales already Andra Day “Rise Up” “7 Years” KGSR spins = BIG Shazam! Already on KGSR, KINK, WRLT, WCLZ, In stores now! Mediabase #17, BDS 19* Tops at Shazam & iTunes WEZZ, KCMP, WFUV, KUTX, KXT, KRSH, WAPS, WJCU, KPND, WYEP... New: WNCS Already on KBCO, WXRV, KGSR, KINK, KRVB, WMMM, KCSN, Just wrapped headlining tour, Leon Bridges coming! Hot AC 27*, T40 43*! WCOO, WCLZ, WEZZ, WRLT... Multi-format: #28 Alt, 4* Hot AC, 11* Top 40 MB Joe Bonamassa announces his complete 2016 tour schedule 4/23 Long Beach, CA 5/17 South Bend, IN 11/26 Baltimore, MD 4/25 Bakersfield, CA 5/19 Wilkes-Barre, PA 11/28 Youngstown, OH 4/278 Fresno, CA 5/20 Atlantic City, NJ 11/29 Columbus, OH 4/29 Reno, NV 5/21 Providence, RI 11/30 Cincinnati, OH 4/30 Stockton, CA 5/24 Binghamton, NY 12/2 Fort Wayne, IN 5/3 Oklahoma City, OK 5/26 Worcester, MA 12/3 Indianapolis, IN 5/4 Omaha, NE 5/27-28 Hampton Beach, NH 12/6 Lexington, KY 5/5 Sioux Falls, SD 7/19 Red Rocks, CO 12/7 Memphis, TN 5/7 Fargo, ND 11/18 Buffalo, NY 12/9 Tulsa, OK 5/9 Rochester, MN 11/19 Westbury, NY 12/10 Dallas, TX 5/10 Davenport, IA 11/21 Hartford, CT 12/13 Tucson, AZ 5/12 Green Bay, WI 11/22 Red Bank, NJ 12/14 San Diego, CA 5/13 Madison, WI 11/23 Richmond, VA 12/16-17 Los Angeles, CA 5/14 Merrilville, IN 11/25 Durham, NC Critics are weighing in on the debut US album from Lukas Graham “What a nice guy Lukas Graham Forchhammer is — respectful toward his parents, hard- working, grateful to be heard. He’s the singer, lyricist and leader of a Danish band, Lukas Graham, that is releasing its American debut album with what’s already an international hit, “7 Years.” In that song, he cherishes his parents’ advice about how to get through the decades of life, mourns his father’s death and looks forward to children of his own. It’s the kind of growing-up-and-aging-gracefully song that’s a country-music staple. But “7 Years” is placed instead where pop meets R&B. Its tune circles through a few notes, the lead vocal hints at Michael Jackson’s tenor quaver, and there’s a hip-hop undertow of sustained strings and a sparse backbeat. It’s sweet earnestness in a shrewd, ambitious package. The music, like much Scandinavian pop, ignores genre to draw on whatever works, current and vintage. It merges electronic dance music keyboards with Bee Gees falsettos in “Take the World by Storm,” puts an R&B croon atop hints of Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata in “Better Than Yourself (Criminal Mind Pt. 2),” and looks back to 1970s and 1980s R&B (more Hall & Oates than Stevie Wonder) in “” and “,” two songs that admit to boys-will-be-boys misbehavior. “What Happened to Perfect,” a fraying-romance song, places somber organ chords behind an increasingly des- perate plea. But through most of the album, filial loyalty merges with humble-bragging — not only in “7 Years” but also in “You’re Not There,” another elegy for his father, and in “Mama Said,” a song about a non-affluent childhood that echoes (and credits) the chorus from “Annie” that Jay Z also used in “Hard Knock Life.” In “Happy Home,” the singer crows about the band’s media coverage and cash flow, but takes care to credit everything to the lessons of parents and grandparents. Behind the modesty, though, is an equally determined sense of enterprise. “Don’t You Worry ’Bout Me” starts with the piano and organ of an old-fashioned gospel song and turns into lilting, upbeat soul as Mr. Forchhammer sings about transcending sorrow via careerism. “A lot of people told me, when daddy passed away/Go take some time off, but I got no time to waste,” he sings. That’s a statement of priorities, a determined flash of candor.” - New York Times, 3/30/16

“Don’t be fooled. Lukas Graham, the Danish singer (and band that also bears his name) behind the yearning ballad “7 Years” is not another supersensitive European singer-songwriter like Passenger or Hozier. He has way more swagger and even a sense of humor. His debut album “Lukas Graham” (Warner Bros.) includes not only sensitive piano-driven pop, but also a healthy helping of soul. Though it’s easy to see why Team Graham would want songs thematically similar to his smash “7 Years,” including the “Hard Knock Life”-leaning “Mama Said,” his skill is actually in translating his love of R&B into something poppier, as he does in “Drunk in the Morning” and the sleek soul of “Strip No More,” about a guy who falls in love with a stripper in an innocent way. But it’s the old-school “Don’t You Worry ’Bout Me” where Graham seems most at ease and most distinctive, as he wraps his voice around a ballad that could have come from Marvin Gaye and puts the Charlie Puth song to shame. “Lukas Graham” is smartly planned and well-crafted, but its real strength is when Graham lets go and sings from his soulful heart.” - Newsday, 3/30/16 Coming up for adds... 4/18: Good Old War “Never Gonna See Me Cry”... 5/2: Ziggy Marley RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 4/6/2016