RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 9/6/2017 Good Old War “The River” The first single from their new EP Part Of Me, out now The full EP is available for download on PlayMPE Early at KVNA This is the first of three EPs that plans to release over the next year On tour in October and November with Josh Ritter: 10/22 , 10/23 Birmingham, 10/24 , 10/25 Carrboro, 10/27 , 10/28 Portland ME, 10/29 , 11/1 Millvale... Ted Leo “Can’t Go Back” The first single from his new solo , out this Friday, on PlayMPE now Early: WNKU, WBJB, KBAC, WYCE, KRCL, KHUM, KVNA, Open Air This is his first solo album since his work with The Pharmacists and with Aimee Mann as The Both On tour: 9/17 Boston, 9/20 Detroit, 9/22 Chicago, 9/23 , 9/24 , 10/23 Richmond, 10/24 Carrboro, 10/25 Atlanta... The National “Day I Die” The follow up to their first #1 single “The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness” from , in stores Friday Most Added including KCSN, KCMP, WFUV, WXPN, WPYA, KTBG, KVNV, KUTX, KJAC, KVNA, WDST, WNKU, WVOD... Playing on Colbert this Thursday and featured on CBS This Morning Saturday this weekend US tour dates kick off in October “Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)” The first single from Songs Of , out now Most Added AGAIN! New this week at KRCC and WUTC Already on WFUV, XM Loft, WYEP, WEXT, WNCW, KBAC, WMVY, WBJB, WFIV, KVNA, WMWV, KOZT, WCBE, KMTN, KHUM... Full cd on your desk now “I have seen the future of Bob Dylan reinterpretation, and her name is Joan Osborne” - Relix On tour through the fall Joan is a 7 time Grammy nominee Jonny Lang “Stronger Together” The first single from Signs, in stores this Friday New at KVNF Already on WAPS, WCBE, KVNA, KPIG, WFIV, WOCM, KNBA, WYCE, KROK, WSGE, KRVM, KSNO, KDEC, KFMG, KDBB, WHRV... “Signs, which features elements of funk, rock and , is held together by Lang’s distinc- tive playing and singing-and the lyrics, which focus on themes of battles and self-empowerment.” – Guitar World On tour! Full cd at radio now Grizfolk “In My Arms” (feat. Jamie N Commons) Their new single, out now Ranked #2 in the Boulder Music Meeting among KBCO listeners! Already on KINK, WPYA, WWCT, WTMD, WZEW, KVNV, KPND, WAPS, KVNA, WFIV, WVOD, KDEC, KROK, WOCM Nearing 2MM on Spotify! On tour: 10/14 , 10/17 , 10/18 Boston, 10/20 College Park MD, 10/21 Charlotte, 10/22 Nashville, 10/24 Atlanta... Brian Tyree Henry “We Can Always Come Back To This” (This Is Us soundtrack) From the soundtrack to the hit NBC TV show This Is Us New at WZEW Already on KRSH, WFIV, KVNA, WYCE This song was featured in the season finale to an audience of almost 18 million and immediately surged to the top 20 in iTunes Written by This Is Us music supervisor Siddhartha Khosla, aka Goldspot Brian is best known as Paper Boi on the hit TV show Atlanta and as The General in the Broadway show Book Of Mormon JD McPherson “Lucky Penny” The first single from Undivided Heart & Soul, out October 6 Mediabase 30*, BDS Monitored 22*, Indicator 12*, FMQB Tracks 12*, Public 6*! New: KSKI, KRCC, WFHB, MSPR Already on KINK, WQKL, KCMP, WRLT, Music Choice, WCLZ, KUTX, WXPN, WFUV, WYEP, KXT, KCSN, XM Loft, KTBG, WFPK, WEHM, WTMD, WAPS, KJAC, WPYA, WYMS... Full cd on your desk now National tour with Nikki Lane coming this fall Alex Lahey “Every Day’s the Weekend” The first single from I Love You Like A Brother, out October 6 #1 at SiriusXM Alt Nation! Sales up 93% this week! New at WYMS, WLKR Already on WRLT, KCMP, WAPS, WYEP, WYCE, Open Air, WFIV, WJCU, KROK, KSLU “Get hip to Alex before she’s playing SNL” - Brooklyn Vegan “A driving, snappy, endearingly witty introduction” - Clash Music Nov/Dec tour: 11/15 Boston, 11/16 NYC, 11/7 Philadelphia, 11/19 DC, 11/24 Chicago... “So Tied Up” (feat. ) The second single from LA Divine, following up the AAA and Alt hit “” Mediabase 19*, BDS Monitored 18*, Indicator 18*! New at WMMM, WYMS, WSGE, WOXL Already on SiriusXM, KGSR, WXRV, WRNR, WPYA, KJAC, WXPK, KCMP, WRLT, WTMD, WFPK, WWCT, WNCS, KTHX, KRVB, WAPS, WCNR, WERS, WEHM, WCLZ.. 7MM+ Spotify and 43K+ singles sold “A fast paced toe-tapper with a stadium-sized arrangement” - Time “Modern Lives” The first single from The Modern Lives, Volume 1, his upcoming EP, out October 13 BDS Indicator 29*, FMQB Tracks 40*! New at WVOD, KDTR Already on KJAC, KTHX, WAPS, KRSH, KPND, WYEP, WBJB, KPIG, KRML, KVNA, KDBB, WMVY, WJCU, WFIV, WNRN, WCBE, WKZE, KHUM, WUIN, KROK, WMWV, KSUT, KMTN... Fantastic video animated by Oscar-winner Bill Plympton online now! On tour this fall with Anders Osborne Lilly Hiatt “The Night Died” The first single from Trinity Lane, out now Already on XM Loft, WRLT, WAPS, KVNA, KNBA, WFIV, WEXT, WCBE, KRCL, KDHX, WUMB, WFHB... “The night David Bowie died, I was in disbelief. I wanted to talk to someone, but it was too late to make a phone call. I cried quietly and went to bed. The next day, I picked up my guitar and hit record on Garage Band. I started to sing and those were the first words that came out. I felt like Bowie was giving me a little gift.” - Lilly to Paste Mag. Will Hoge “Young As We Will Ever Be” The first single from Anchors, out now Already on WRLT, KJAC, XM Loft, WAPS, KPND, KVNA, WEXT, KPIG, KNBA, WYCE, WCBE, WBJB, WFIV, WNCW, WUTC, WBSD, KVNF, WERU, KDHX, WHRV, WDVX, MSPR, KRVM, KSMF and KDBB On tour now “A rollicking, Springsteen-esque rocker with a killer guitar solo, with lyrics inspired by persistence in the face of setbacks” - American Jack Johnson “My Mind Is For Sale” The first single from All The Light Above It Too, out this Friday Mediabase 7*, BDS Monitored #7, Indicator 1* AGAIN!!, FMQB Tracks 1*!!, Public 9*! Monitored panel almost closed out! Fantastic performance at eTown in Boulder! On tour this summer! Lyric video online now “Johnson delivers his barbs with a gentle and dexterous touch over an effervescent instrumental groove” - Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band “Nothing But The Night” The first single from Lay It On Down, out now Already on WAPS, WSGE, KYSL, KVNA, KPIG, KROK, WVOD, WOCM, WMWV, WEXT, WFIV, KBAC, WYCE, KMMS, WEVL, WBJB, WMNF, MSPR, KVNF, KUWR, WERU, WUTC, KDTR, WUKY, KDBB, WHRV, KDNK, WBSD... Five-time Grammy Nominee! On tour: 9/15 Cottonwood AZ, 9/18 Kansas City, 9/19 Des Moines, 9/21 Wichita, 9/22 Springfield IL, 9/23 Louisville Picture This “Take My Hand” The first single from this Irish band on Republic Records, from their self-titled album, in stores now Already on KINK, KJAC, WAPS, KLRR, KVNA, KCLC, WVOD, WFIV and WYCE US tour dates this fall: 9/7 Cambridge, 9/8 Philadelphia, 9/9 Washington DC, 9/12 New York City, 9/16 Chicago, 9/19 Los Angeles, 9/21 San Francisco and more Mondo Cozmo “Automatic” The first single from Plastic Soul, out now Mediabase #14, BDS Monitored #17, Indicator #15, FMQB Tracks #16, Public 29*! Already on WXRT, KGSR, KFOG, KINK, WRLT, KCSN, KRVB, KTHX, Music Choice, WQKL, KXT, WNCS, WNKU, WWCT, WEHM, KJAC, WCOO, WMMM, WCLZ, KPND, WXPN, WYMS... On tour: 9/12 DC, 9/13 Philadelphia, 9/14 NYC, 9/15 Boston, 9/16 Burlington, 9/19 Columbus OH, 9/20 ... The Lone Bellow “Time’s Always Leaving” The first single from Walk Into A Storm, available 9/15 Mediabase #32, BDS Monitored #30, Indicator 13*, FMQB Tracks #17, Public #14! Already on WRLT, KINK, WPYA, WXPN, WFUV, WFPK, KCSN, KJAC, WCLZ, WZEW, Music Choice, WAPS, KTBG, WTMD, WNKU, WNCS, KPND, KRSH, WEHM, WYEP, WCNR, WNRN, KVNA, KRML, WEXT, WUIN, KLRR and more Amazing in Boulder Full cd at radio now Barns Courtney “Golden Dandelions” The first single from his debut full length album The Attractions Of Youth, out September 29 Mediabase 25*, BDS Indicator #21, FMQB Tracks #27! Already on KGSR, KCMP, WXRV, KINK, WRLT, WXPK, KTBG, KXT, WPYA, WCOO, WZEW, KPND, WWCT, Music Choice, WCLZ, KLRR, WDST, KRSH, WCNR, KVNA, WOCM, WLKR, WVOD, KSKI, WYCE, WFIV, WJCU, KBAC, WAPS, KRML... Official video online now Nicole Atkins “Listen Up” The first single from Goodnight Rhonda Lee, out now New at MSPR, KDNK Already on WRLT, WFUV, WFPK, WTMD, KJAC, KVNV, WDST, WYEP, KVNA, WEHM, KNBA... “A new confidence in her own voice & writing that make this record a great listen” - Kyle/WYEP “Listened to Nicole Atkins’ new one “Goodnight Rhonda Lee” and it’s by far my favorite Atkins’ album. It’s a stunner. You better listen up!” - Scott Register Nikki Lane “Send The Sun” Chris Robinson Brotherhood “High Is Not The Top” The new single from Highway Queen Already on KCMP, WPYA, WRLT, KRSH, KJAC, WAPS, The first single from Barefoot In The Head, out now New at WFIT Already on KMMS, KYSL, KOZT, WTMD, WYEP... “Highway Queen is her best yet, and should cement her status as the rightful KMTN, WCBE, WFIV, KNBA, KRVM, WDST, WUIN, WMVY, KSUT, WYCE, WNCW, WUKY, WUTC, heir to icons like Wanda Jackson and Loretta Lynn” - Amer Songwriter JD McPherson tour KRCC, WDVX, KAXE, MSPR, KDBB, KDEC, WHRV, KFMG, KDTR... Lots of great press! On tour now Brooklyn Vegan explores the new album from The National “On “Born to Beg,” a highlight off The National’s seventh album Sleep Well Beast, takes a second to sing about the city he moved to from Ohio before forming this band 18 years ago. “New York is older and changing its skin again / It dies every ten years, and then it begins again.” With beloved landmarks closing, rent prices going up, demo- graphics changing, and local icons moving (like Berninger, who relocated to LA in 2015), there’s been chatter about the city’s death, but that lyric takes a wise and hopeful look at it. New York is ever-changing, but it’s not over. It’s still like no other place in the world. There’s a comparison to be made here to The National themselves. They found their sound as we now know it on their 2005 breakthrough Alligator, and each subsequent album has seen the band changing its skin in one way or another, without ever diverting from the distinct sound they established on that album. Boxer was more refined and toned down. aimed for the stars, with their most accessible and perfectionist material yet. felt like a reaction to High Violet. If High Violet was The National at their biggest, Trouble sounded more relaxed, like they were just writing the songs they wanted to write and not aiming for more stardom. It established that The National didn’t need to write songs for anyone but themselves, and the results would still be brilliant. It opened for them to take four years before Sleep Well Beast — their longest break between — and make some of the most radical changes to their post-Alligator sound yet, while still not breaking its highly unique mold. The two most recent albums saw Aaron and using electric guitars to create atmosphere, often manipulating them to the point of sounding like strings or keyboards, which makes it kind of radical how traditionally rock much of their playing on Sleep Well Beast is. They’ve got real- deal riffs and a real-deal guitar solo on lead single “The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness,” which also has the album’s most immediately satisfying chorus. On a similar note, has emerged as one of ’s most recognizable drummers thanks to a style that’s often upbeat and driving but rarely uses standard rock beats, which makes the frequent use of electronic drums on Sleep Well Beast another curveball. They show off a nice blend of the old and the new on “I’ll Still Destroy You.” Starting off as a glitch pop song with no live drums at all, it turns into classic National about halfway through and ends in a freeform jam with sinister orchestral arrangements and some of Bryan Devendorf’s most mighty skinsmanship. What makes the album so interesting and unpredictable is that there’s no simple narrative you can reduce it to. It’s got those aforementioned elec- tronic drums and something close to synthpop with “Walk It Back” (which is also home of this very quotable line: “Until everything is less insane, I’m mixing weed with wine”), but you can’t call it their “electronic” album. Not when it’s got “Turtleneck,” a hard-edged song that rocks like no National song has ever rocked (they’ve had aggressive songs like “Mr. November” and “Available” but nothing in the manic spirit of “Turtleneck”). The drastically new-sounding songs like “Walk it Back” and “Turtleneck” are balanced out by a handful of more traditional National songs. “Day I Die” is a heartbreak- ing, lyrically detailed look at a marriage in trouble that follows the formula of previous driving rock songs like “Sea of Love” and “Lit Up.” “Carin at the Liquor Store” is a show-stopping piano ballad in the tradition of “” that looks back on an imperfect love with some truly uplifting melodies. “Carin at the Liquor Store” is named after Matt’s wife Carin Besser, who Matt co-wrote the lyrics to Sleep Well Beast with (not the first time Carin contributed to The National). He told Rolling Stone last year: “I’m happily married, and but it’s hard, marriage is hard and my wife and I are writing the lyrics together about our own struggles.” He clarifies in the interview that his marriage is healthy, so the more tragic songs like “Day I Die” read more as about Matt’s fears than as autobiographical. Nearly every song is about relationship struggles, but Sleep Well Beast isn’t exactly a concept album. The line between what parts are about Matt and Carin’s real life and what parts aren’t often blurs, which is fair to expect from good art anyway. Sleep Well Beast is the result of artists excelling at their craft, not necessarily a window into the authors’ lives. And since Matt does say his marriage is healthy — perhaps due to the therapy that writing this album with his wife provided — Sleep Well Beast may just be one of this year’s finest answers to the ques- tion “How do you write good songs when you’re happy?”” - Brooklyn Vegan, 9/5/17 American Songwriter gives four-star praise to Will Hoge “Even in the notoriously rough-and-tumble, hard-touring world of Americana singer-, few would dispute that Will Hoge has been there, done that, and has the odometer miles to prove it. From 2001’s major label debut Carousel to 2014’s well-received indie release (the somewhat by-the-numbers, blue collar contemporary country of Small Town Dreams), Hoge has been out there swinging, trying, sometimes successfully, to grab onto the Nashville hitmaker brass ring (“Even If It Breaks Your Heart” notched the top spot on the country charts for the ). But ultimately, Hoge ran into similar artistically limiting brick walls that many of his peers have experienced. Unhappiness and frustration followed, which led to Hoge abandoning a band and touring solo in 2016. Album number 10 finds Hoge retrenching from the lighter-waving, hooky choruses that perhaps slotted him too comfortably in the John Mellencamp- lite field, towards a more authentic troubadour style. Hoge’s sturdy sense of melody remains but he has dialed back his approach to a more genuine, less crowd-pleasing singer-songwriter persona. It fits well. Hoge, now a 45-year-old family man, writes about marriages gone stale (“This Grand Charade,” “Little Bit Of Rust,” with guest vocals from , “Cold Night In Sante Fe”) and the realization of love lost from a lonely, aging protagonist (“Through Missing You”) with the sure sense of someone who has either experienced these feelings first hand, or knows people who have. While the majority of this is firmly in introspective, melancholy ballad territory, Hoge rocks out on the mid-album, crowd sing-along “This Ain’t An Original Sin” (perhaps a holdover from his previous album) and the very Tom Petty-ish chiming/grinding arena-sized closer “Young As We Will Ever Be.” Otherwise though, Anchors is as somber and reflective as its title (and title track) implies. And even if some of these frustrated life-situation stories veer dangerously close to cliché (can we have a moratorium on tunes about “Angel’s Wings”?), Hoge puts them across as if his concept of taking high- ways out of town, pining for an old flame, and the first taste of teenage love at “17” (a cousin to Seger’s “Night Moves,” nicely enhanced with subtle horns), hasn’t provided us with plenty of material already. He believes in these songs and their characters, folks who are searching for “better days to come.” Hoge’s everyman vocal integrity makes them re- verberate with strong, strummy, sometimes dreamy melodies and enough emotional authenticity to fill a few songbooks. You’ll wish he was more uplifting at times, as he is on “Young As We Will Ever Be,” where he visualizes his marriage improving over the upcoming years. But this is a robust, even brave statement from a veteran artist who saw success that didn’t speak to his inner truths and decided on a less commercial musical direction that did.” - American Songwriter, 8/11/17, Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Coming up: 9/18: Black Pistol Fire “Lost Cause”... Oct: Alex Clare, Angus & RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 9/6/2017