f10 interview: singer/guitarist Jake Rabinbach (Jump Back Jake, Francis and the Lights)
“Some people go on long journeys in order to escape or leave something behind. Jake Rabinbach’s journey was a means of finding something.
Rabinbach spent time at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he was buddies with Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden of later MGMT fame. He left after two years for New York with the hope of achieving his musical aspirations. But Rabinbach’s vision needed something more, something with a deep, engrained musical history. That desire took him down to Memphis, where he formed Jump Back Jake, a “modern Memphis rock n’ soul” band that was soon signed to the newly relaunched Ardent Music, the label that launched legendary power pop band Big Star many decades before.” (continue reading…)
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