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

Friday, February 10, 2012

Shortlist - February


The month is short and so is this list of new tunes worth a listen.

1.  Bon Iver, Holocene - Dreamy, winter music named after the human epoch.




2.  Nada Surf,  Jules and Jim– A power pop song with a title cribbed from Truffaut.  What could be more perfect?



3.  The Head and the Heart , Down in the Valley  - Gentle song, beautifully sung.  "Lord have mercy on my rough and rowdy ways."



4.  Cloud  Nothings,  Stay Useless – Draw a straight line through the Ramones, the Buzzcocks and the Strokes and it ends right here. 



5.  Of Monsters and Men, Little Talk – Imitation?  Flattery?  Hope this is OK with Edward Sharpe & the MZ's, and Florence and her Machine.    



Hang on.  March is coming. 
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