RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER JESSE BARNETT [email protected] www.rightarmresource.com 62 CONCERTO COURT, NORTH EASTON, MA 02356 (508) 238-5654 8/30/2006 Jay Bennett Sean Lennon “Replace You” “Dead Meat” The first single from The Magnicifent Defeat, New: KCRW, KCMP, Sirius, XM Loft, WYOU... the new cd from the former Wilco member ON: WFUV, KBAC, WCBE, KTBG, WNCW, XM Cafe... Already added at: WCBE, WFIT, WYOU, WSYC Full cd Friendly Fire on your desk now and in stores 10/3 Sampler on your desk, also on FMQB Progressions #99 Companion film features Lindsay Lohan, Carrie Fisher and others Ben Kweller Sandi Thom Joseph Arthur “Sundress” “I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker” “Too Much To Hide” New: WBOS, WRNR, WTMD, Music Choice... #1 UK Album! World Cafe set airs 9/6 FMQB Public Debut 25*! In stores 9/19 ON: WNRN, DMX, WHRV, WYOU... In stores 9/19 New: KDBB, WNKU, KZRC Already on: WBOS, KINK, New: KSPN, WEVL, WAPS, WUTC, KRCC, WNTI US tour dates in September & October WRNR, WRNX, WMVY, WAPS, KTBG, WFUV, DMX... ON: WXPN, KCRW, WBJB, KEXP, KTBG, WTMD... Full page feature: Style page of Rolling Stone Performed a webcast tour to over 200K people In stores 9/19! Major US tour begins 9/25 Five For Fighting Ben Harper Gov’t Mule “The Riddle” “Get It Like You Like It” “Mr. High & Mighty” R&R Monitored 27*! Almost 100K sold in 4 wks R&R Monitored #10! Indicator 3*! FMQB Tracks #33! FMQB Public 34*! New: KMTN ON: KTCZ, WBOS, KENZ, FMQB Public #6! Almost 250K scanned so far New this week: WZEW, KCLC, WGWG, KUWR WRLT, KWMT, KBAC, WBCG, KCLC... Tour: 8/31 Indianapolis, 9/1 Rochester Hills MI, ON: WXPK, KTHX, WDST, WFUV, WCOO, WTMD... Great press and tons of TV exposure 9/5-6 New York City, 9/8-9 Boston, 9/10 DC... On tour with Donavon Frankenreiter in Oct/Nov Soul Asylum Joshua Radin Raul Malo “Stand Up and Be Strong” “Closer” “You’re Only Lonely” FMQB Tracks #22! In stores now New: WFUV Already on: WCBE, WAPS, ON: WFUV, KRSH, KTBG, WNCW, WYEP, WCBE... This song has been picked as the WNRN, WUMB, KZRC, Acoustic Cafe... 4 star review in People Magazine theme song for ESPN and ABC’s Used in Scrubs, Grey’s Anatomy and “Last Kiss” movie 3 1/2 star review in USA Today this week: college football coverage this fall! On tour now! Dates with Anna Nalick, Vienna Teng... “Listen to Raul Malo - and marvel!” Steve Reynolds Shane Bartell Will Hoge “Forsaken” “Don’t Believe Everything” “Woman Be Strong” The second single from Exile On tour now! Already on: WCBE, KFAN, KRCL, WYOU , KVNF From the full cd The Man Who Killed Love ON: KTBG, XM Cafe, KZRC, WYOU, KRVM... #1 Editors Pick at Download.com New: KROK, WNTI ON: WFUV, WFIV, “’Exile’ is an impressive debut from a well- Tour dates: 8/31 NYC, 9/4 NYC, 9/7 Rochester NY, WDST, WCBE, WTMD, KPND, KDTR,... rounded musician” - Performing Songwriter 9/9 South Park CO, 9/11-12 Seattle, 9/14 Eugene... Tour: 8/31 Charlottesville, 9/1 VA Beach... Gov’t Mule hits the road with Donavon Frankenreiter 10/5 Los Angeles, CA 11/7 Gainesville, FL 10/7 San Diego, CA 11/8 Orlando, FL 10/8 Santa Barbara, CA 11/10 Pompano, FL 10/10 Anaheim, CA 11/11 Birmingham, AL 10/11 Santa Cruz, CA 11/12 Nashville, TN 10/12 Chico, CA 11/14 Mobile, AL 10/13 Reno, NV 11/15 Charlotte, NC 10/14 San Francisco, CA 11/16 Charleston, SC 10/15 Santa Margarita, CA 11/17 Louisville, KY 10/20 Seattle, WA 11/18 Cincinnati, OH 10/21 Spokane, WA 11/19 Cleveland, OH 10/22 Portland, OR 11/24 Philadelphia, PA 10/31 Kansas City, MO 11/25 Wallingford, CT 11/2 Greensboro, NC 11/29 Worcester, MA 11/3 & 4 Atlanta, GA 11/30 Albany, NY 11/5 Tampa, FL Steve Reynolds sits down with Chicago’s Daily Southtown Joseph Arthur launches According to Steve Reynolds, the best way to spend this summer was to team up with a buddy, Lonely Astronaut label Gus Black, and hit the road. Singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur So that’s exactly what the two Los Angeles-based will launch a record label along with singer-songwriters decided to do. The duo, touring a new album on Sept. 19. Arthur’s as Gus and Steve, [played] Aug. 27 at Heartland Cafe fifth album, Nuclear Daydream, will 7000 N. Glenwood Ave., Chicago. be the first record on Lonely “Gus and I have been friends for years,” Reynolds Astronaut, an imprint of Red/Sony. said. “This one’s a little bit more stripped- And it just so happens that Black has just released a new record, and Reynolds just down than my last album,” Arthur released a new single, so it was a perfect time for a tour. told Paste, on the way to the studio “Why not take a couple of friends on the road and make a fun summer? If you’re from his home in Brooklyn. “The going to lock yourself in a car for a month or two, you might as well have a laugh.” songs are more And that’s what the live show is like, Reynolds said, at least on Black’s side. traditionally songs.” “I’m a straight man to his comedy,” he said. Nuclear Daydream The newly formed duo plans to tour through the end of August. In the fall, Reynolds was recorded over said, it’s time for him to get into the studio for a new album. the past two years in Los Angeles and The whole singer-songwriter hat is a relatively new one for Reynolds. Berlin. “I was always a guitar player in other bands,” he said. “Then I took on the mantle of Arthur decided to launch a label ‘singer-songwriter’ about four years ago, and I had to go through a trial by fire.” because it would allow him to record His first solo show was for 6,000 people. more freely and have more control “And I had to sing and play at the same time,” he said with a laugh. But he’s hit his over his music. “To have your own rhythm. label seems liberating artistically,” he “Now it’s like a suit that fits. I love bringing the messiness of the day on stage, being said. “You’re eliminating some of the who I am when I’m there. It’s liberating, and I get more comfortable in my life when cooks in the kitchen, which ain’t no I’m on stage.” bad thing.” Moreover, Reynolds has grown comfortable with the Eventually, the label will include musician’s way of life. other artists. “I have a lot of really “It’s not just playing in front of people, but (music) is talented friends,” Arthur admitted. something I love to do. I mean, I love the whole thing. I love airports and everything “It’d be nice to open up somebody’s that goes weird,” he said. world a little bit.” For up-to-the-minute AAA news... Coming up... 9/11: KT Tunstall “Other Side Of The World,” Dan Bern “Breathe”... 9/18: Bruce Hornsby “Jacob’s Ladder” RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER - 8/30/06