RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 12/5/2012 Alpha Rev “Sing Loud” #1 Most Added on all charts! First week: WXRV, KRSH, WCOO, WWCT, WCNR, KXT, WBJB, KROK, WFIV, WBJB, KDBB... Early: WCBE, WJCU, KMTN, KTAO The first single from their new album Bloom, coming out on Kirtland Records on February 19 Killer show at Sunset Sessions - see the live performance video on our website, more tour dates announcing soon Charlie Mars “How I Roll” BDS Monitored New & Active! Indicator 19* already! New: KSKI, WMWV, WNTI Already on: Sirius, WRNR, KPND, KRSH, WEHM, WEXT, WFPK, KCLC, WYMS, KYSL, WNKU, Music Choice, KTAO, KDBB, WOCM, KMTN, WJCU, KOHO, WFIV, WNRN, WUIN, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT... Just finished touring with Tedeschi Trucks Band, Citizen Cope before that Solo dates coming up: 12/14 Ringwood NJ, 12/15 Easton MD, 1/2 NYC... Grace Potter & The Nocturnals “Stars” BDS Monitored 27*! Indicator 21*! Amazing download reaction after Amanda Brown’s performance of it on The Voice New: WXRV, KDBB, KBAC ON: KTCZ, WRLT, WNCS, WCLZ, WCOO, KTHX, WZEW, KRSH, KCSN, WCNR, WDST, WEXT, WMVY, KFMU, KSPN, WYMS, WTYD... Headlining tour now, more dates added for early next year Watch the solo acoustic performance of it on our website ZZ Ward “Put The Gun Down” BDS Monitored 19*! New: WMMM, KUNC ON: KFOG, Sirius, KPRI, WNCS, KRVB, WRNR, WRLT, WCLZ, KTHX, KCKC, WZEW, KCSN, KRSH, KPND, WTMD, WCNR, KTAO, WNKU, KMMS, KSKI, KFMU, KSPN, DMX Adult Alt... New tour dates announced with Delta Rae and Martin Harley for early 2013 Almost 13K albums sold first month Fuse Artist You Need To Know! Over 1,000,000 views on VEVO! iTunes Rising Stars Of Alt Rock Max Gomez “Run From You” Already added at: WFIV, WCBE, KTAO, WMWV, KSUT, WNRN, KROK, KSPN, KFMU, DMX, WBJB, KUNC, KVNF Full album Rule The World in stores 1/22 Recently toured with John Hiatt then Patty Griffin, more dates coming soon Single available on PlayMPE now Max also co-wrote three songs on Shawn Mullins’ “Light You Up” album Mike Doughty The Departed “Country Roads” “Prayer For The Lonely” Already on: WCNR, WFPK, WNKU, WEXT, KMTN, KFMU, WYCE, The first single from Adventus, in stores now, available on PlayMPE WKZE, KDBB, WTYD, WEHM, WOCM, KOHO, MUCH, KHUM... New: KDHX ON: KRSH, WCBE, WYCE, WBJB, KYSL, WOCM, KDBB, WFIV, KROK, WKZE... The Flip Is Another Honey, his album of covers, on your desk and in stores now The Departed features Cody Canada of Cross Canadian Ragweed “In the end, it’s clear that even though this is an album of covers, it’s without “In my view, it’s one of the best of 2012. While there are shades of Rag- question a Mike Doughty album, and if you had never heard the originals, weed (or, better put, Canadian), this is not Cross Canadian Ragweed you’d be saying ‘Jeez - he’s as funky/crazy/smart as ever, isn’t he?’” - Jambands.com redux. This is something new, something better.” - No Depression Good Old War “Better Weather” Dave Matthews Band “If Only” New: WFUV ON: Sirius Spectrum, WWCT, KMMS, DMX Folk Rock, KCLC, KHUM, BDS Monitored 13*! Indicator 1* again! ON: Sirius, KFOG, WXRT, KBCO, KGSR, WMVY, KOHO, WNRN, WVOD, KSPN, KFMU, WJCU, KMTN, KNBA, KDBB... KINK, WRNR, KRVB, WMMM, WQKL, WXPK, WNCS, WCLZ, WZEW, KCKC... Toured this fall with Dispatch then Needtobreathe, now with Xavier Rudd First band to have six straight albums debut at #1 in Soundscan Arena tour going on now Elle King “Playing For Keeps” Martin Harley “Mojo Fix” ON: KUT, KRSH, WNKU, WCBE, KOHO, WUIN, KMTN, KCLC, KROK, WFIV, 2013 tour announced with ZZ Ward and Delta Rae Album in stores now KFMU, WDST, KSMT, DMX... “Dangerously catchy” - Entertainment Weekly New: KDTR ON: KINK, WNCS, WCLZ, WXPN, WZEW, KRSH, KPND, WEHM, WNKU, The theme to the hit VH1 show Mob Wives Chicago Full ep at radio now WBJB, WJCU, WCBE, WEXT, WFIV, WMWV, KSMT, WOCM, KFMU, KSPN, KNBA... John Hiatt “We’re Alright Now” The Whigs “Waiting” BDS Indicator #25! Texas tour dates in January, more shows announcing soon Full cd Enjoy The Company in stores now Catch them on tour this month ON: Sirius, KINK, WXRT, WCLZ, XM Loft, KCKC, WCOO, WERS, WFUV, KCSN, New: KVNF ON: KINK, WRLT, KRSH, WZEW, WCNR, KSMT, KUT, DMX AA, KDBB, WEHM, KPND, KRSH, WDST, WNKU, WTMD, WWCT, WTYD, WMVY, WKZE... WBJB, WFPK, WNRN, KMTN, KCLC, WNKU, KNBA, WOCM, WNCW, WWCT, KBAC... Forbes talks aging and music with Mike Doughty ““I can’t believe you’re 50 and you still listen to Anthrax” “I can’t believe Scott Ian is 50 and he’s still in Anthrax.” My son said this to me as he was getting ready to go see Anthrax and I was telling him I had just listened to Persistence of Time that morning. My answer shut him up, but opened up a whole new world of thoughts for me. Over the next few months I’d have an ongo- ing conversation with myself and anyone who would listen about the perception of age and how it relates to music, the culmination of which came when I read musician Mike Doughty’s tumblr post on the same subject: Forget piracy. The music industry’s biggest money- loser is an inability to connect with older people that used to spend money on music, and don’t anymore. I read the piece – in which Doughty laments the way the music industry treats both fans and new musicians over 40 – with great interest. This was the very conversation I had been having with myself. The idea that the music industry doesn’t care about those over 40 goes hand in hand with the idea that younger people have a lot of misconceptions about what it’s like to be over 40. Those of us in our 40s and 50s? We’re the generation that grew up on rock music. Our middle school and high school days are soundtracked by heavy metal, new wave and punk. We are, for lack of a better phrase, the Metallica generation, the kids who grew up head banging. So what makes people think that the minute you turn 40 you have to hand in your “cool” card and all your metal records and start lis- tening to nothing but Wilco while sitting in your rocker after Matlock reruns? We are older. Not old. We’re still the people who scrawled pentagrams in the margins of our notebooks, who partied in arena parking lots before shows, who waited outside record stores on new release morning. Not only are we still those people but we still want to do those things. It just seems like no one wants us to. I got the chance to talk to Mike Doughty on this subject. “To acknowledge that the audience is aging is to acknowledge that you’re also aging,’ he said. “A consequence of this is that it’s just about the only industry that lets 95% of its customer base disappear, once they turn 35, without utterly freaking out about the loss of revenue. My general reaction can be summed up as, ‘Seriously, nobody wants this money?’” We, the north of 40 crowd, have the money. We’re mostly a financially stable lot, us older folk. We’ve got disposable income and a need to spend it. We want to go to shows. We want to keep up what we started when we were just teenagers buying counterfeit AC/DC t-shirts in the Nassau Coliseum parking lot. Said Doughty: “Successful artists–artists that managers, publishers, and recording companies would consider worthwhile to invest in–have live fanbases. The variables, in developing, and keeping, an audience that’s north of 40, really aren’t that complicated: make shows earlier, make them shorter, nix the opening act, tell people exactly what time the music starts, and ends, make dumb talky drunks shut up.” But they don’t want to do that because they don’t believe people over 40 still want to rock. And maybe we don’t want to rock in quite the same way – I don’t know about you, but a bottle of Boones- farm wine and a nickel bag in the back seat of a Volkswagen while listening to a cassette of the band you’re seeing just isn’t in the cards for me anymore – but we still want the music. We want to see the bands. We want to buy their stuff. And it’s hard to do that when we’re dismissed. Even bands that were popular when we were kids are still putting on shows but putting on shows that appeal to, well, the kids. They forget we are still out here, we still have all their albums on vinyl. But they are catering to their new, younger audience. The show starts at 9, give or take an hour, there’s three warm up bands and no seats. It’s not like we’re so old we cant do that. It’s that we don’t want to. We worked all day, we came home to our families and made dinner and cleaned up the house, maybe paid some bills and now we have to stand up until our favorite band comes on at 10pm and we’ve got to be up for work at 5. We’re older and our needs and priorities have changed, but we have not. We still enjoy the music and the industry needs to rec- ognize that and respond to it. They need to understand that we want to see our favorite bands live, we just need to do it in a different way than we did when we were 17. By ignoring the fact that the Metallica generation is out there, still wanting to spend money to go to shows and buy albums, they are cutting off a huge part of their fan base. Where did they think all those old fans went, anyhow? Do they really think we are sitting on our porches with our Werther’s candy telling kids to get off our lawns? No, we’re sitting in our living rooms listening to Anthrax, lamenting the fact that the younger generation seems to think we’re too old for this shit. And maybe it’s our fault. As Mike Doughty said, “On a societal level, we people north of 40 often do a grave disservice to their youngers by hiding their age, being ashamed of it. I think it’s less about people being aware that one still loves Public Enemy, than going onto Facebook and not hiding your age on your profile.“ He has a point. Maybe we need to be a bit more vocal about who we are and how old we are, just to show the music industry and artists that we are out here. We’re 40. We’re 50. We’re the same ages as the artists in the bands that are playing gigs geared toward kids half our age. We’re not old. We’re older. And we know better than to think we’re just supposed to give up, turn in our records and fade to black. To acknowledge that the audience is aging is to acknowledge that you’re also aging. Maybe Doughty is on to something there. Those who make the shows and promote the music we crave first need to acknowledge that Scott Ian is 50 years and still in Anthrax before they acknoweldge that 40 and 50 years olds still want to see him play.” - Reprinted from Forbes.com, 12/3/12 Coming up: 1/14: The Mavericks “Come Unto Me,” Marie Miller “You’re Not Alone”... 1/21: Current Swell “Too Cold”... 1/28: Night Beds “Ramona” and much more RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 12/5/12