RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER JESSE BARNETT [email protected] www.rightarmresource.com 62 CONCERTO COURT, NORTH EASTON, MA 02356 (508) 238-5654 7/15/2009 Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons “Born Again” The first single from Death Won’t Send A Letter, in stores September 29 Added early at WXPN, KSLU Co-written with Brendan Benson Playing Thursday night in Boulder! Live: 7/22 Chicago, 7/24 10,000 Lakes Fest Dave Matthews Band “Why I Am” #1 Most Added! New & Active! Indicator Debut 24*! First week: WCOO, WFIV, KBAC, KSPN, KMMS, WDST... Early: WXRT, KPRI, WWMM, KINK, WCLZ, Sirius... Major US tour starts Saturday Incredible press The Black Crowes “I Ain’t Hiding” First week: WEXT, WFIV, WFPK, KDBB, KMMS, KMTN, KNBA, KROK, KFMU... Early: Sirius, WXPN, Music Choice, WBJB... Recorded live with an audience at Levon Helm Studios Long US tour begins in August Before The Frost in stores 9/1 Ingrid Michaelson “Maybe” R&R Monitored Debut 20* on add day! First official week: KPRI, WRNX, KTHX, WCNR, KTBG, KOHO, WMWV, KMTN, KFMU... Early: KENZ, KINK, KMTT, KTCZ, WXRV, WRLT, KRVB, KWMT, KXLY, Sirius, WCLZ, KPTL... Playing in Boulder! See extensive tour on Page 2 Good Old War “Looking For Shelter” First week: WTMD, WBJB, KMTN, KCLC, WNRN, WNKU, KZMV, KSMT, KRVM, KFAN XPoNential Fest 7/24 “Good Old War charms with a genuine feel-goodness. The album has no posing or forced trickery.” - Huffington Post Bat For Lashes “Daniel” Davy Knowles & Back Door Slam “Tear Down The Walls” New this week: WTMD, WCBE, KNBA ON: KCMP, KCRW, WFPK, WXPN, R&R Indicator 21*! FMQB Tracks 22*! Public 18*! New: KBCO, WTMD WYMS, WNRN... Jimmy Fallon 8/11 US tour dates throughout August ON: WZEW, KPRI, SiriusXM Spectrum, WXPK, WEHM, WFUV, WXPN... “The year’s most thrilling music so far (8.5 out of 10)” - Pitchfork Playing Thursday night at The Fox in Boulder! Aug/Sept tour with Chickenfoot Erin McCarley “Pitter Pat” Between The Trees “We Can Try” New: WSGE ON: KTCZ, KWMT, KPTL, WCOO, WWMM, KDAL, Music ON: WCOO, KFMU, KROK, WVOD, KCLC, KOHO, KZMV, WRRW Choice, KZMV Top 10 reseach at Cities 97! Great listener response: Single on your desk and full album on PlayMPE In stores 8/11 Airplay=Sales On tour this month with Paolo Nutini Past touring includes OAR and multiple Warped tours! On tour this month Nelo “Love Solution” Miike Snow “Animal” New: WSGE ON: KRVO, WBJB, KZMV, KSLU, WUKY, KDEC, KFAN... Already on: WRXP, WEHM, WFUV, KCRW, KEXP, KUT, WTMD, Live at the Rate-A-Record in Boulder! “A true band in every sense, one KCLC, WXPN, WAPS, WFPK, WEXT, WNRN, KFMU, WYCE... to watch for sure, but better yet, LISTEN, too!” - Bryan Beck/KGSR Miike Snow is Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg and Andrew Wyatt Meiko “Under My Bed” Charlie Mars “Listen To The Darkside” ON: KXLY, WCOO, KRSH, WCNR, KOHO, KBAC, KCLC, WOCM, R&R New & Active! FMQB Tracks 39*! New: WFUV, WFPK, WCBE KMTN, WEXT, Music Choice... Huge downloads and MySpace plays ON: KGSR, WRNR, WCOO, SiriusXM Spectrum and Loft, WEHM, WKZE, WTMD... Watch her NY morning TV appearance on the Right Arm Resource blog More dates coming! See him live at Friday’s lunch in Boulder Coming up... July 27: David Gray “Fugitive”... August: Imogen Heap, Harper Simon, Will Hoge, Rob Blackledge, Kyle Hollingsworth... Ingrid Michaelson wants to make sure Everybody sees her show The extensive touring to support her new album, Everybody, starts at the end of August 8/31-9/1 Dennis, MA 9/28 Austin, TX 10/19 Denver, CO 9/11 Burlington, VT 9/29 Dallas, TX 10/21 Minneapolis, MN 9/12 Boston, MA 10/1 Tucson, AZ 10/22 Menomonie, WI 9/13 Albany, NY 10/2 Scottsdale, AZ 10/24 Madison, WI 9/16 New York, NY 10/3 San Diego, CA 10/25 Milwaukee, WI 9/17 Philadelphia, PA 10/4 San Juan Capistrano, CA 10/26 Chicago, IL 9/18 Washington, DC 10/7 Los Angeles, CA 10/27 Ann Arbor, MI 9/19 Charlottesville, VA 10/9 San Francisco, CA 10/29 Cincinnati, OH 9/21 Carrboro, NC 10/10 Redding, CA 10/30 Louisville, KY 9/22 Atlanta, GA 10/11 Portland, OR 10/31 Cleveland, OH 9/23 Athens, GA 10/12 Seattle, WA 11/2 Nashville, TN 9/24 Birmingham, AL 10/15 Boise, ID 11/3 Asheville, NC 9/25 New Orleans, LA 10/17 Salt Lake City, UT 11/4 Towson, MD 9/26 Houston, TX 10/18 Aspen, CO 11/5 Pittsburgh, PA Billboard says that Davy Prefix Magazine weighs in on Bat For Lashes “Natasha Khan is a woman of many guises. Already operating under the Knowles rocked Rothbury pseudonym Bat for Lashes, Khan has adopted an alter ego named Pearl for her “Guitar riffs, rhymes and polyrhythmic ragas got sophomore effort, Two Suns. Described as “a destructive, self-absorbed, blonde, the second Rothbury Festival off to an eclectic start femme fatale … who acts as a direct foil to Khan’s more mystical, desert-born on Thursday at the Double JJ Ranch in western spiritual self,” Khan accesses Pearl as a means of exploring the duality of such celestial heavyweights as planets and the sun, not to mention the duality of self and Michigan. relationships. It goes without saying that, in the wrong hands, a concept this If a star is to be born at this year's edition of the mystically loaded could have resulted in cosmic catastrophe. So it is to Khan’s Rothbury it may well be Davy Knowles, the blues- great credit that Two Suns is a resounding success, full of warmth, unfading spirit, rock guitar whiz from the and, by the penultimate track, “Traveling Woman,” an album that finds its Isle of Man who led his protagonist reemerging a newly independent spirit who is advised to “listen to the vision/play in the ashes of what you once were.” band, Back Door Slam, The album features collaborations from Brooklyn-based psych-pop outfit through a blistering hour- Yeasayer as well as Scott Walker, who contributes his quivering, vibrato-laden long set on the festival's vocals to the final track, “The Big Sleep.” Perhaps the biggest contributor of all is Sherwood Court stage. the inclusion of expansive, Peter Gabriel-sized synths, providing the fire under With a husky voice and which many of these eleven tracks sizzle. Kick-off single ”Daniel” rides in on waves of keys and cuffed guitar that recall some of the greatest of '80s past (think nimble fingers, Knowles the epic storytelling of Kate Bush paired with the gypsy-eyed mysticism of Stevie delivered fierce renditions Nicks and you’re somewhere in the right ball park) all the while retaining a of his own songs, including modernized sound and identity that is Khan’s own. Much different from the "River Bend," "Tear Down baroque, stubbornly unconventional stylings of Khan’s debut, Fur and Gold, with the Walls" and "Keep on “Daniel” Khan offers up one of the year's most melodiously rich, straightforward, Searchin'," the latter co-written with Peter and well-crafted pop songs. On the chorus to album opener “Glass,” we find Khan’s stunning voice being Frampton, who produced the group's new album hurtled sky high, its toughness providing a nice juxtaposition to the overtly Coming Up For Air. Knowles also populated his set fantastical imagery eluded to, which ranges from “emerald cities” to “crystal with covers, including Woodstock 40th anniversary towers” to “capes of red and gold.” But perhaps most stunning is the ultimate nods to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ("Almost Cut clashing of Khan’s two personae’s on album centerpiece “Siren Song,” in which My Hair") and Creedence Clearwater Revival Khan promises a man, “I’ll always be happy to kiss you/ Promise I’ll never get sad.” By the time the harrowing chorus kicks in, Khan finds a force “driving me ("Commotion") as well as the late Rory Gallagher's evil,” and Pearl introduces herself with “blond curls [that] slice through your "Walk on Hot Coals." The crowd for Knowles was heart.” It’s the ultimate inner battle of good and evil, one that even the best of us light, but those who saw him were certainly telling wrestle with when making ourselves vulnerable to the entanglements and snares of others about the hot one they missed.” - Gary Graff love, and one that Khan has found her most confident and enthralling voice in yet.” For up-to-the-minute AAA news... RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER - 7/15/09.