RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 9/2/2015 Austin Plaine “Never Come Back Again” The first single from his self-titled debut on Razor & Tie, in stores 9/11 Full cd and cd-pro on your desk, also on PlayMPE First week at SiriusXM Coffeehouse, KRSH, KPIG, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT, WBJB, KMTN, KROK, WCBE... Early: KCMP, WAPS, WZLO, WFIV, KCLC... Great syncs already for his music in Hart Of Dixie, The Biggest Loser, Battle Creek, Gainsville and many more “[Plaine] has an approachable country-tinged style that comes through on his latest release.” - Billboard Video soon The Saint Johns “Shadowplay” The first single from their upcoming album, available on PlayMPE New at KVNA, already on WFIV Great in Boulder! The Saint Johns’ Jordan Meredith on their song to Paste, where the acoustic video was premiered: “This song was therapy for me. Sometimes a song can hit you in so many different places that it kind of breaks you open. That’s what ‘Shadowplay’ did to me.” Did a run of dates with Jackie Greene last month, more touring coming soon Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors “Here We Go” The second single from Medicine, on PlayMPE First week: WRLT, WNRN, WEXT, KNBA, KRCL, KDBB, KRVM Early: WBJB, WFIV, KVNA “Here We Go” explores universal themes of alienation - who hasn’t, at some point, felt like a castaway on a private island of misfit toys? The song provides a useful reminder that we’re all in the same boat, and that it’s a good thing we’ve got people and music around to make it better.” - NPR Fun video online now On tour all fall EL VY “Return To The Moon” The title track first single from the new project from Matt Berninger of The National and producer Brent Knopf, in stores 10/30 BDS New & Active, FMQB Tracks Debut 40*, Public 31*! New: SiriusXM, KPRI, WWNU, WCBE, KYSL, WDST, KHUM, KRML, WOCM Already on KCSN, WXPN, WFUV, KCMP, WEZZ, WNCS, WTMD, WERS, WYMS, WFPK, WCNR, WJCU, KCLC, WAPS... Lyric video online now US tour dates in November: 11/2 & 3 Portland, 11/4 Seattle, 11/6 San Francisco, 11/7 LA, 11/10 Philadelphia, 11/11 DC... Gavin James “Bitter Pill” The first single from his upcoming album New: KFMU, KSPN, KSMT Already on KRSH, WJCU, WFIV, KVNA, KBAC, WCBE, KDEC and KDBB Just wrapped a month of US touring with Sam Smith “This is a smash hit record from an incredible artist” - Zane Lowe/Beats 1 Just performed with BORNS, Pia Mia and Rae Sremmurd as part of the American Express Unstaged: Artists In Residence show Gavin has had a busy year including touring with Kodaline, a massive show in Ireland with Ed Sheeran and more More US dates soon The Kickback “Sting’s Teacher Years” The first single from Sorry All Over The Place Full cd on your desk now, FCC-clean edit of the single on PlayMPE In stores 9/18 New at KROK, KUWR, KRCC Already on WFIV, WBJB, WFHB and WYSO “The band conjures the very best part of the Veils and the Walkmen and the Killers, writing lean, nervy songs that snarl and snap” - Rolling Stone National fall tour dates! The single has been licensed by SXSW for promo in the fall and spring Produced by Jim Eno of Spoon Grace Potter “Empty Heart” From the album Midnight, in stores! Mediabase 40*, BDS New & Active, Indicator 24*, FMQB Tracks 34*! New: KPND, WCNR, KDBB Already on KFOG, KINK, WRLT, WNCS, WXPN, KCSN, WQKL, WEZZ, WCLZ, WZEW, WCOO, KTBG, WNKU, WJCU, WDST, WUIN, KOHO, WOCM, WCBE, KSPN, KFMU, KSMT, KYSL and more Killer performance on Conan! Amazing reviews all over “In Grace Potter’s hands, on her first solo album Midnight, pop rock gets a real kick in the cherry-red pants.” - NPR Clara-Nova “An Island” The first single from their upcoming album, on PlayMPE now Killer set in Boulder New at WCBE, EAV Already on WFIV Something big is happening at Spotify: in the top 40 on the Viral chart with over 40,000 streams already See them on the Communion residency: 9/9 New York City, 9/11 Vienna VA, 9/15 Nashville, 9/16 Atlanta, 9/17 Louisville... Watch for more extensive touring to be announced soon along with the release date of the upcoming album David Gilmour “Rattle That Lock” The title track from his first release since 2006, in stores September 18 New: KROK Already on SiriusXM Spectrum, WXPK, WCOO, WWCT, WXPN, WNCS, KCSN, WEHM, WEXT, WFIV, WBJB, KOZT, WDST, WZLO, WCBE, WMSR, WUSM, KZYR, KSNO, KVNA, WNTI, WUKY... First North American tour dates in 10 years: 3/24 Los Angeles, 3/31-4/1 Toronto, 4/4 & 4/8 Chicago, 4/11-12 New York City Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds “Sugar” The new single from The Weather Below Played it on The Today Show and had a killer performance in Boulder New at KROK Already added at WRLT, Music Choice, WEXT, WVOD, WKZE, WJCU, KNBA WOCM, WYCE, WZLO, WFIV, KSMT, KSPN, KFMU, KUNC, KXCI, KVNA, KDBB, KSLU, WSGE, WUSM, KDEC, and WUKY On tour for the rest of the year Amazon Acoustics / 32 track playlist A new Amazon Music playlist now live online at http://www.amazon.com/acoustics, featuring 32 covers, reworked songs, and originals from a great roster of AAA favorites Already on Acoustic Café, SiriusXM Coffeehouse, WEHM, WBJB, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT, KRML, KVNA, KSNO, KZYR, KSLU, WUMB, WYCE... This playlist is free to stream for Prime members and tracks can be purchased exclusively via Amazon Music On PlayMPE now Ben Folds “Phone In A Pool” The first single from So There, in stores September 11 Mediabase #36, BDS Monitored 30*, Indicator 23*, FMQB Public 17*! New at WYMS, KRCC, WEVL... Already on: WRLT, KPRI, WNCS, WCOO, WERS, WEZZ, WFUV, KCSN, KCMP, KRSH, WTMD, WJCU, WFPK, WNKU, WEHM, WYEP, KTBG, WZEW, WCNR... Fantastic eTown set in Boulder! Fall tour with yMusic, winter dates with local symphonies Jonathan Tyler “Riverbottom” The first single from Holy Smokes, in stores and on your desk now Already on KXT, WJCU, KKAL, WYCE, WCBE, KROK, KNBA, KYSL, WNCW, KPIG, WFIV, WZLO, KCLC, WOCM, KRCC, WFHB, KDBB, KVNA... “Fierce youthful abandon mixed with the serenity of an old soul makes for some rockin’ songs and smooth ballads.” - Chicago Sun-Times Premiered on American Songwriter On tour now Family Of The Year “Make You Mine” The first single from their self-titled album, in stores Friday FMQB Tracks 48*! Already on WRLT, KCMP, KCSN, WEZZ, WTMD, KBAC, KSMT, WEHM, KLRR, KCLC, KROK, WFIV, WOCM, WAPS, KOHO, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT, WZLO... West coast promo run coming up “The track electrifies the Family of the Year sound many listeners know by injecting some Grouplove-style carefree cheer.” - EW Walk The Moon “Different Colors” Mediabase 33*, BDS New & Active! Already on KFOG, KGSR, CIDR, KRVB, WMMM, WEZZ, KTHX, WWCT, WERS, WZEW, KPND, KRSH, WCOO, WLCE, WCNR, KOHO, KCLC, WAPS, KFMU, KSPN, WNKU, KRML, WFIV, WJCU, KROK, WOCM, KKAL, KSKI, WVOD... Crossing formats! Going for Hot AC adds next week Played major summer festivals, national tour in the fall The Deslondes “The Real Deal” Already on: WFIV, WKZE, KUNC, WUMB, KDHX, KXCI, KSUT, KRCL, KVNF, KSLU, WFHB, WUSM, KDBB, WNTI, KDEC... Fun video online now “They manage to resurrect a lost sound - Stax and Sun records are distinct touch points, as are upright-bass-driven melodies - while giving it a modern, vibrant swing, building on the foundations of old-time traditions without sounding like they’re stepping out of a time machine.” - Rolling Stone JJ Grey & Mofro “Light A Candle” FMQB Tracks 47*! Already on WYEP, WCNR, WUIN, WEHM, WDST, KMMS, WFIV, WBJB, WMVY, Music Choice, WMWV, WOCM, KCLC, WJCU, WKZE, WZLO, KFMU, KSPN, KTAO, WCBE, KKAL, WSGE, KVNA... “A reminder of the otherwise forgotten glory of a uniquely American hybrid” - PopMatters Just wrapped up a tour with Big Head Todd & G. Love, headlining dates coming up Phases “I’m In Love With My Life” The first single from For Life, in stores 9/18 ON: KGSR, KINK, WXRV, KRVB, WEZZ, KCMP, KXT, KPND, WCNR, WNKU, Music Choice, WAPS, WYMS, KROK, KCLC, WFIV, KRML, WOXL, WMSR, KVNA... September headlining dates, November tour with Lights and The Mowgli’s Once known as JJAMZ, Phases features the talents of Z Berg, Alex Greenwald, Jason Boesel and Michael Runion Galactic feat. Macy Gray “Into The Deep” FMQB Tracks 41*, Public #32! New at WEZZ and KRML Already on WFUV, WXPN, KPRI, WZEW, KPND, KRSH, WYEP, WDST, WOCM, WVMP, WCNR, WYCE, KROK, WFIV, KTAO, KSMT, KSPN, KFMU, KYSL, KSUT, KKAL, Music Choice... On tour for the rest of the year Galactic’s Stanton Moore named one of Rolling Stone’s top 100 drummers of all time! Family Of The Year hits the road in November with Kaleo 11/5 Denver, CO 11/21 Houston, TX 11/6 Lincoln, NE 11/22 Austin, TX 11/7 Ames, IA 11/24 Phoenix, AZ 11/8 Minneapolis, MN 11/25 Pomona, CA 11/10 Columbus, OH 11/28 Los Angeles, CA 11/11 Toronto, ONT 11/30 La Jolla, CA 11/13 Philadelphia, PA 12/1 San Francisco, CA* 11/14 Washington, DC 12/3 Portland, OR* 11/15 Brighton, MA 12/4 Seattle, WA* 11/16 New York, NY *=not with Kaleo 11/19 Atlanta, GA Matt Berninger discusses EL VY with NME “I keep calling this a collaboration ‘cos neither of us wants to have a second band,” explains Matt Berninger, referring to El Vy, his project with Brent Knopf, whom he met 10 years ago when The National toured with Portland art rockers Menomena. Down the phone from Los Angeles – where the first gent of melancholy alt.rock is about to have a surfing lesson – he says: “We started out together, playing empty shows and sleeping on floors. We served in the trenches together! I knew he was a prolific writer, so I said, ‘If you have any musical ideas you’re not using, send them to me’. About a month later, he’d emailed over 300 different ones.” Over the years, Berninger would fill a folder he labelled ‘The Moon’ with the song sketches that would eventually comprise their debut (‘Return To The Moon’, released October 24), keeping the project secret from everyone bar his bandmates and wife. “I didn’t know if anything would come of it,” he admits. Lyrics were written while on tour with The National, on buses, in hotels, on planes and in a tent he pitched in his garden in LA. “My daughter’s six, so the house is constantly filled with activity – it was liberating to realise you can have noise surrounding you and still focus.” On the hip-hop influenced ‘Man To Be’, there’s a moment where he’s interrupted by a cleaner, and the woman’s voice remains on the recording. “I don’t know her name and I never got her to sign a release, but you hear her and me flustered, because I’ve got all the furniture stacked up on the bed and bottles of empty wine.” Last November, after The National had finished touring their sixth album, 2013’s ‘Trouble Will Find Me’, the pair started “dig- ging into the record”, with Knopf recording his music in Portland and Berninger laying down his vocals at home. He says the songs “needed a different DNA,” to The National and describes ‘Return To The Moon’ as “my most personal record, the most I’ve ever dug into my own past to try and figure out why I’m the way I am.” The album’s lyrics are full of references to his upbringing in Cincinnati, Ohio. “It’s informed by the idea of a young person using music to help them find their way in the world. My adolescence was rocky. It wasn’t because I got into drugs or anything – I was just a dark moody kid, romantically disgruntled and felt like a dork, and using The Smiths and The Cure to find kindred spirits. I was thinking about how I fell in love with music and my cousin Peter telling me how he’d seen The Ramones and The Smiths in [local nightclub] The Jockey Club – to me, Morrissey being in Cincinnati was like spotting a unicorn in your backyard.” He sees the album as a “almost like a musical” that follows the romance between two characters Michael and Didi, named after Mike Watt and the late D Boon of 1980s punk band Minutemen. “My daughter’s obsessed with Grease and plays the soundtrack constantly. I was thinking of the Minutemen a lot when writing the lyrics, and I think of Didi and Michael as like Danny and Sandy. As a kid, Olivia Newton-John was the first woman I loved – but I liked her plain, singing ‘Hopelessly Devoted To You’ rather than the curly-haired leather one at the end.” El Vy will tour throughout this year – visiting London, Manchester and Dublin in December – working around the schedule of The National, who are currently writing their seventh album. “We did a camp out retreat in New York a couple of months ago, and we’re having another one in LA in a few weeks. We have 30 sketches of songs so far.” The band’s Aaron Dessner has been temprarily naming the nascent tracks after towns in upstate New York. “Before, he’s named them after things like civil wars. All the songs that turned into ‘Trouble Will Find Me’ were named after children of our friends.” Berninger says outside collaborations are integral to ensuring The Na- tional “stays healthy”. “I think the band were initially nervous because if I made a bad record, it would reflect badly on us. But fortunately they love ‘Return To The Moon’.” From what we’ve heard of the record so far, they certainly won’t be the only ones.” - NME, 8/21/15 Going for adds 9/14: Greg Holden “Boys In The Street,” Darlingside “Go Back,” Collective Soul “AYTA (Are You The Answer)”... 9/21: Genevieve Bellemare “Shenanigans,” SOAK “B A Nobody”... RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 9/2/2015