RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 2/10/2021 Kaleo “Break My Baby” The new single from their forthcoming album Surface Sounds, out 4/23 Early: KCMP, Music Choice, WCNR, KVYN, WCLX, KVOQ, KJAC, KVNA, KPND, WAPS, WZLO, WVMP, KMMS, WJCU, KOIT... Watch their amazing new video for it on my website “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 #1 Most Added! New: WXRV, WXPN, WFPK, WYEP, KTBG, KXT, Music Choice, WPYA, WNCS, KVNA, WRSI, WZEW... Early: WRNR, WFUV, KCMP, KCSN, WYMS, KVOQ, KJAC, WDST... Fantastic press “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 New: WRLT, WRNR, WDST, KVOQ, KUTX, WAPS, WTMD, WCBE, KUMT ON: KBCO, Music Choice, WXPK, KTBG, KXT, WYMS, WCNR, KMTN, WVMP, WYCE, WZLO... Over 6MM streams since its release in November 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 22*, BDS Monitored Debut 14*, Indicator 9*! Mediabase Alt 12* New: WXRV, KRVB, WQKL, WKLQ, WNCS, WZEW, WCOO, KROK... ON: KBCO, KINK, KGSR, WRNR, WRLT, WMMM, WXPK, Music Choice, KCMP, WFUV, KCSN, WPYA, WFPK, WYEP, 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 Mediabase 36*, BDS Monitored #1 New & Active, Indicator Debut 27*! New: WWCT, WCNR, WZEW, KROK ON: WRLT, KINK, WXRV, KRVB, WPYA, Music Choice, WXPK, WCLZ, KCSN, WAPS, KPND, WNCS, KVNA, KJAC... Ed Sheeran remix on PlayMPE “…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 23*, BDS Monitored 26*, Indicator 29*, JBE Albums 20* ON: SiriusXM Spectrum, WXRV, WRLT, WRNR, WFUV, WMMM, KCSN, KXT, KVOQ, KRVB, WPYA, WNCS, KTHX, WQKL, WKLQ, WCNR, 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 February 26 Mediabase 33*, BDS Monitored 31*, Indicator 24*! New: KGSR, KBCO, WAPS, WMWV... ON: WXRT, WXRV, WRLT, WFUV, WXPN, WCLZ, WYEP, KCSN, WFPK, Music Choice, WCNR, WTMD, WNCS, WZEW, WPYA, WNRN... 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 48*, BDS Monitored New & Active, Indicator 12*! Played last week on Kimmel New: WRNR, WPYA, KBAC, KLRR ON: WXRV, WRLT, Music Choice, WFPK, KCSN, KXT, WCLZ, WNCS, KTBG, KVOQ, WDST, WCNR, WYEP, KJAC, WTMD, KTSN, WNRN, KRSH... “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 Mediabase 37*, BDS Monitored Debut 37*! New at KMTN ON: WXRV, WXPK, KCMP, WFUV, KCSN, Music Choice, WRLT, WTMD, WCNR, KTBG, WYEP, KVOQ, WPYA, WYMS, WFPK... “Herring steals the spotlight again on “Plastic Beach,” perhaps the most Future Islands-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 ONR feat. Sarah Barthel (of Phantogram) “Must Stop” From his upcoming EP BDS Monitored New & Active, Mediabase Alt 24*! New at WYEP ON: WRLT, WMMM, KCMP, WXRV, KXT, WTMD, KCSN, WNCS, WCNR, KTBG, KJAC, KVOQ, KVNA, WCOO, WAPS, WDST... Over 1MM streams on Spotify “A song about being repeatedly hurt. About a lack of self- worth, a desperation to be in love and to be loved by someone, anyone — and the blows you can take when you leave yourself so open.” - ONR (Robert Shields) Julien Baker “Faith Healer” From Little Oblivions, due February 26 Mediabase 26*, BDS Monitored 17*, Indicator 23*, JBE Albums 6*! New: WEHM, WVMP, WMWV ON: KBCO, WXRV, WRLT, KRVB, Music Choice, KCMP, WFUV, WXPN, KCSN, WYEP, 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 Semisonic “Basement Tapes” From the You’re Not Alone EP BDS Indicator #40! ON: KGSR, WRNR, WFUV, KCMP, WXPK, WFPK, Music Choice, WPYA, KCSN, WEHM, KVNA, WTMD, WCNR, KJAC... “A blazingly catchy and colorful rocker that could be about the nascent days of any rock band.” - Minn. Star Tribune “The arrangements are streamlined yet sturdy, from the propulsive “Basement Tapes” to the memorable title track.” - Under The Radar Aaron Lee Tasjan “Up All Night” The first single from Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!, out now JBE Albums 47*! New: KEXP, KBAC ON: WRLT, KCSN, WXPK, WPYA, WTMD, WFPK, KJAC, KVYN, WAPS, KTBG, WEHM, KRSH, WZEW, WUIN, KMTN, KRML, WTYD, WVMP... “‘Half party anthem, half cautionary tale. It’s inspired by the times I’ve wondered if I need to get help with my drinking and what it meant that I was worrying about things in the first place?” - Aaron on the single Ron Gallo “HIDE (MYSELF BEHIND YOU)” From PEACEMEAL, out this Friday ON: WRLT, WFUV, WXPN, WYMS, KCSN, KJAC, WCNR, WEHM, WNRN, WCLX, WLKR, WJCU, KROK... “HIDE is about being with someone because how they make you feel or the idea of them rather than who they really are. Sometimes we say “I love you, I want to be with you” but maybe we really mean “I don’t like me, I don’t want to be with myself and you can help distract me from me.” - Ron The AV Club weighs in on Weezer’s OK Human “It was supposed to be the year of Van Weezer. After putting out a dozen studio albums (13 if you count the all-covers Teal Album), Weezer had planned to release Rivers Cuomo’s homage to the metal music of his youth in 2020. Instead, COVID-19 happened, and Cuomo did what many of us have done over the past year: turned inward and looked for ways to pass the time. Unusually for the artist, he’s left a pretty open-book recording of that process, albeit one with new window dressing adorning his usual pop-rock nuggets. There are no shredding guitars to be found on OK Human; instead, Weezer has looked past the ’80s to the early ’70s and the heyday of the orchestral pop album. Of course, this being Weezer, there’s not exactly a profound shift in songwriting, so much as a substitution of a 38-piece orchestra for the guitars and synths of records past. Instead of distorted riffs, there are strings—fierce, muted, and pizzicato in equal mea- sure—providing the melodies that drive these songs. There’s a stately restraint to most of the music. A few upbeat numbers at- tempt to quicken the pulse (“Grapes Of Wrath” is a standard-issue Weezer single), but the album’s overriding mood is one of thoughtful reflection. It’s a vibe that suits Cuomo and company; this many albums into its career, Weezer could stand to take a step back, take stock, and reorient itself along a wavelength less beholden to the earworm wannabe-hits that have come to exemplify the band’s sound at this point. As much as it may be borne of COVID-based necessity, this record is a logical progression. Those who gave a close listen to 2019’s The Black Album heard an antecedent of this sound, what with its general lack of punchy rock and emphasis on acoustic guitar, piano, and gently processed arrangements. (Even better, there are none of that record’s misbegotten attempts at rapping and dance-R&B jams.) There’s always been a forlorn singer-songwriter side to Cuomo, even at his most trend-chasing nadirs, and by embracing the retro sounds that inspired that aspect of his writing, the musician has found a happy medium between his radio-friendly aspirations and the throwback pleasures that have stayed hidden beneath the band’s too-polished 21st-century sheen. It’s evident in the album opener and lead single, “All My Favorite Songs,” which fuses a traditional Cuomo vocal pattern and melody to Beach Boys har- monies, simple Harry Nilsson-style string arrangements (the press materials for OK Human name-check both acts for a reason), and lyrics that straddle the line between evocative and overwrought without going too far in either direction. It’s solid, in other words—which isn’t damning with faint praise, rather affirming that Weezer is nailing this material. It’s in the slower, more balladry-driven songs that OK Human (the latest in a long line of stupid reference-heavy album titles, this time nodding at Radio- head’s classic) finds its openly beating heart. The lilting beauty of “Numbers” is an ode to humans’ innate ability to find ourselves lacking in comparison to others, which nonetheless finds salvation in companionship. (“I hear the sadness in your laughter” is as good a refrain lodestone as Cuomo’s penned in years.) “Playing My Piano” is the singer at his most nerdily vulnerable, testifying to the healing power of the title instrument, which transcends even the calls of loved ones.