RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 3/2/2011 Los Lonely Boys “Fly Away” LLB is back with their instantly recognizable harmonies! Video just premiered online - see it on the Right Arm Resource site Early: KTBG, KZMV, KOZT, WFIV, WNKU, KROK, KTAO, KYSL, WYEP, KBAC, WBJB, WVMP, KRVM, WHRV, KFMG Full cd Rockpango in stores March 29 Tons of tour dates already announced - see the complete list on page 2 Richard Ashcroft “Are You Ready?” Joe Bonamassa “Dust Bowl” The man behind “Bittersweet Symphony” is back in a big way Most Added! First week: WMVY, WEXT, KLRR, KSUT, KBAC, WERS... Early: Sirius Spectrum, KCMP, KBAC, KZMV, WOCM, KCLC, WBJB, Early: KOZT, WFIV, WJCU, KNBA, KZMV, WOCM, KROK, KTBG, WNKU... WCBE, WNKU, KFAN, KRCC, KXCI, WUKY... Big feature in Nylon Guitar Magazine’s 2010 Readers Choice: Best Overall Guitarist and In stores and appearing on Fallon 3/22, NY/BOS shows that week Best Blues Guitarist Major tour dates going on now! In stores 3/22 Bob Schneider “Let The Light In” Jason Spooner “Wishing Well” BDS Monitored Debut 29! Indicator Debut 29*! New: KMMS, KSLU Most Added! First week: KEZE, WCNR, KSUT, WEXT, KYSL, WNRN, ON: KGSR, Sirius Spectrum, KEZE, WCLZ, WFUV, KUT, KRSH, KPND, WTYD, KNBA, KFMU... Early: WMVY, KRVO, KTAO, WBJB, KBAC... WZEW, WCOO, WFPK, Music Choice... In stores April 19 On tour now His cover of the Terence Trent D’Arby classic Great at Sunset Sessions Brooke Fraser “Something In The Water” Jack Johnson “From The Clouds” New: KOHO, WOCM, KMTN, KFMU, WERU ON: WCNR, KUT, BDS Monitored 10*! Indicator 16*! New: KFOG, WNCS, WCNR, WEHM, WVMP, WFIV, WUIN, KZMV, WNRN, WJCU, KFMG, KDEC, KFAN... KMMS, KDBB, WOCM ON: WXRT, KBCO, Dave-FM, WTTS, Sirius, WRLT, KPRI, Playing at SXSW More US touring this spring, last tour many sellouts WMMM, KGSR, WRNR, WNRX, KTHX, KPND, WQKL... Around 750K scanned David Gray “Only The Wine” Robbie Robertson “He Don’t Live Here No More” BDS Monitored 25*! Indicator 23*! ON: KBCO, KTCZ, Dave-FM, CIDR, BDS Indicator 7*! FMQB Public 7*! New: Acoustic Cafe, KDTR, KRCC, WSYC ON: WMMM, Sirius, WRNX, WNWV, KRVB, KEZE, WZEW, WCOO, KRSH, KPND... KBCO, WRNR, Sirius Spectrum, WXPK, WNCS, WRLT, WXPN, WEHM, WDST, KUT... March tour: 3/3 Seattle, 3/4 Vancouver, 3/7 San Francisco, 3/8 LA, 3/9 San Diego How To Become Clairvoyant in stores 4/5 TONS of press coming NON-COMM! The Bridge “Rosie” Ivan & Alyosha “Fathers Be Kind” FMQB Public 40*! New: KZMV, WERS ON: KPIG, KOZT, WTMD, KDBB, Over 30K views for their NPR Tiny Desk Concert in four weeks KYSL, WNCW, WBJB, KNBA, WCBE, KROK, WNKU, WFIV, WEXT, WFHB... On tour & at SXSW New: KRCC ON: KUT, WYEP, KTBG, WNRN, WYCE, WRSI... In stores & on tour “The most exciting live band in Baltimore.” - Tyler Laporte/WTMD “A literary-minded cross between Local Natives and Fleet Foxes” - Filter Nicole Atkins “Cry Cry Cry” Middle Brother “Me, Me, Me” BDS New & Active! Indicator 21*! In stores Great at Sunset Sessions The leads of Dawes, Deer Tick and Delta Spirit FMQB Public 22*! New: WYMS, WTYD ON: KEZE, WCLZ, WZEW, KPND, KRSH, WCOO, WEHM, In stores! New: WRSI, WAPS, WFHB, KXCI... ON: WRNR, WFUV, WXPN, KCMP, KCLC, WDST, WXPN, WFUV, WTMD, KUT, WCNR, WVOD, Music Choice... On tour WFPK, WYMS, WYEP, WYCE, WTMD, WEXT, WUIN, WFIV, KUT... SXSW & Mar tour Eulogies “You Hide” Raphael Saadiq “Stone Rollin’” ON: KUT, DMX, WFIV, WNRN, KSMT, KCLC, KTBG, KSKI, KXCI, WSYC... BDS Indicator 24*! FMQB Public 21*! Performing it on Leno 3/21 Dedicated to Pablo Castelaz, son of Dangerbird label head Jeff Castelaz, ON: Sirius Spectrum, WRNR, KPND, WMVY, WFUV, WXPN, WFPK, KCMP, who passed away in 2009 at the age of six from a rare form of cancer WEHM, WDST, WTMD, KUT... Grammy performance with Mick Jagger Edie Brickell “Pill” Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs “For The Summer” BDS Indicator 30*! FMQB Tracks 41*! Public 15*! Produced by Charlie Sexton Grammy winner! BDS Monitored 6*! ON: WXRT, KTCZ, KBCO, KMTT, WXRV, ON: Sirius Spectrum & Loft, WFUV, KUT, WYEP, KMTN, KLRR, WTMD, KVSF, WVOD, Dave-FM, KINK, KPRI, CIDR, WMMM, WXPK, WNCS, WTTS, KRVB, WRLT, KTBG, WJCU, WNRN, WEHM, KZMV, WFIV, WYCE, DMX, KBAC... Tons of great press WZEW, Sirius, KPND, KTHX, WRNX, KEZE... 250K scanned! Spring tour Upcoming: 3/14: Jim Bianco “But I Still Want You”... 3/28: Ben Harper “Rock N’ Roll Is Free”... 4/5: Blame Sally “Living Without You”... 4/12: The Submarines, Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers Richard Ashcroft’s “Fly Away”: Pitchfork picks Eulogies “Eulogies’ first two releases, both thematically reliant on You Might Recognize It From... the ins-and-outs of relationships, suggested the band was content to make the same kind of color-by-numbers, misty- eyed indie pop ad infinitum. But life has a way of interven- ing, and in the case of Eulogies’ ringleader Peter Walker, it was an unfortunate turn of events: Walker’s best friend lost his four-year-old boy to cancer, just after the birth of Walk- er’s own child. And Eulogies third album, Tear The Fences Richard Ashcroft’s new single “Are You Ready?” may sound familiar. That Down, was written with him in mind. may be because you’ve been hearing it in a major VW Jetta campaign The irony that a band called Eulogies has now crafted which has aired since October in high-profile TV spots including the MLB something of eulogy is likely not lost on Walker, though playoffs, NFL games and the World Cup. You’ll also hear it in the upcoming he certainly doesn’t let on. Tear The Fences Down, while Matt Damon film, The Adjustment Bureau, due in theaters this month. elegiac in its own way, is by far the most varied, energetic record Eulogies have made to date, Los Lonely Boys coin ‘Rockpango’: abandoning their mopey moves in favor of sharp, densely arranged indie “Rock Party,” and you’re invited pop songs that shine brighter the less straightforward they are. Opening track “Out of Style, Out of Touch” rumbles with the perky energy of a Vampire Weekend tune, while the tumbling “You Hide” could be a lost cut from Eels’ Daisies of the Galaxy. In fact, Walker even sounds like Mr. E on many of the songs here, which seems fitting, as the Eels frontman is no stranger to grief. But unlike so many Eels records, Tear The Fences Down is near pitiless, while the en- tanglement of emotions is still evident. “Will I” is coldly de- 4/2 Steamboat Springs, CO 6/28 Toronto, ONT tached, Walker’s voice hanging like a ghost over the robust, 4/3 Aspen, CO 6/29 Ann Arbor, MI almost aggressive clatter of the band underneath. “How to 4/5 Durango, CO 7/1 Milwaukee, WI Say Goodbye”, probably the most beautiful, affecting song 4/6 Greeley, CO 7/4 Hankinson, ND here, boasts a chorus of gorgeous, free-fall vocal harmonies. 4/8 Manhattan, KS With Los Lobos: Most of Tear the Fences Down is so lyrically ambiguous 4/9 Lincoln, NE 7/21 Toppenish, WA that “How to Say Goodbye” could easily be about a girl. But 4/10 Iowa City, IA 7/22 Tacoma, WA Walker doesn’t seem interested in spelling things out-- this is a record made with a select few people in mind, and that 4/12 Madison, WI 7/23 Portland, OR intimacy makes it engaging. Only on two tracks does he 4/13 Lawrence, KS 7/26 Saratoga, CA address the tragedy head-on, from two unique perspectives. 4/15 Taos, NM 7/27 Sacramento, CA “Separate Heart” is paranoid and jaunty, with Walker sing- 4/16 Scottsdale, AZ 7/28 Coarsegold, CA ing, “I’m boxed in my happiness, I’m falling down/ I want 5/12 Houston, TX 7/29 Los Angeles, CA to surrender, but I don’t know how.” It’s a weirdly helpless 5/13 Dallas, TX 7/30 Rancho Mirage, CA confession; in the face of another’s tragedy, he’s confronting 5/14 Austin, TX 7/31 San Diego, CA the difficulty of finding happiness in his own new parent- 6/15 Norfolk, CT 8/2 Albuquerque, NM hood. But most of the conflicted feelings, fears, and regrets expressed on Tear the Fences Down are calmed by closing 6/16 Portland, ME 8/3 CO Springs, CO track “Little Else to Say”, a simply stated epilogue. Clearly 6/17 Boston, MA 8/5 Arvada, CO a children’s song, it’s an autobiographical account of the 6/18 Tarrytown, NY 8/6 Boulder, CO slowed process of overcoming loss-- a big idea written for 6/24 Alexandria, VA 8/9 Minneapolis, MN small people but, like a good portion of Tear The Fences 6/25 Annapolis, MD 8/10 Chicago, IL Down, one that registers across the board.” - Pitchfork 3/1/11 Listen to everything and find out more at www.rightarmresource.com as well as facebook.com/rightarmresource or twitter.com/rightarmjesse RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 3/2/11