Life is complicated and busy. Did you notice? Keeping up with the music, movies and books that fed your youthful imagination and conversations is harder than ever, but even more important. Here's the good news: there's never been more great new stuff. The challenge is to find it.

So here are my highly opinionated views on sounds, sights and words that will help you keep it fresh and real, and links to the veins where the richest motherlodes can be found.

Feed your head.
- JumpingFlashJack

Monday, July 13, 2020

Coming Into Los Angeles

Women in Music Part III
Haim

With California locking down again, let's lean in and remember how close it sits to the soul of American culture -- and how this frontier surprises us, fascinates us, scares us. This is the moment to listen to Haim's new disk -- in solidarity and celebration. They've made the quintessential summer album for this disorienting summer of 2020.  Brilliant sisters are doing it for themselves:  

'Los Angeles":


"Don't Wanna":



And it goes on!!