By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com It is a new day as New Music Reviews has evolved into Jake’s Take’s Music Reviews! To commemorate this special occasion, Jake’s Take has gathered some of the best new music from our favorite artists and two friends of the blog. So without further ado…let’s get this party started! Lemonade by […]
Jake’s Take on Cyndi Lauper’s “Detour”
April 27, 2016 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Emmy, Grammy, and Tony-winning singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper is heading to Nashville for her latest record. Detour is the “True Colors” singer’s eleventh studio album, and it also marks her first full-length country music record. To celebrate this particular project, Lauper recruited one of recording industry’s most illuminated figures. “Recording a country […]
A Tribute to Prince (1958 to 2016)
April 21, 2016 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com The world has lost another music icon. According to numerous media outlets such as Billboard, CNN, PopWrapped and Rolling Stone, the artist known as Prince has passed away at age 57-year-old. TMZ reported that Prince’s body was discovered at his Paisley Park compound earlier Thursday morning and also noted that the […]
Springsteen brings The River Tour to Kansas City
April 8, 2016 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com As millions of people across the country waited on pins and needles to find out who would be the final American Idol, thousands of Kansas Citians packed into Sprint Center to watch an American icon and a proud Archbishop of the Church of Rock & Roll perform. To many, the Church […]
On the Rise: Singer-songwriter Lanita Smith
March 22, 2016 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com While countless people are throwing away their broken March Madness brackets, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Lanita Smith scores one slam dunk after another. Lanita’s 2016 started off on a high note when she released her anticipated debut EP: Listen to Your Heartbeat. As the title track went live on VEVO, Lanita headed […]
New Music Releases: Week of March 18, 2016
March 19, 2016 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Welcome to the latest edition of the New Music Releases! We got an incredible line-up of great music to get to this week. This is What the Truth Feels Like by Gwen Stefani It has been nearly 10 years since Gwen Stefani dropped her last solo studio album: The […]
A Conversation with Rayvon Owen
March 10, 2016 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com As American Idol, the long-running FOX singing competition heads into the sunset; many artists have returned to the show that helped launch their careers to participate in its final season. Between Clay Aiken, Taylor Hicks and Kris Allen assisting the producers during the final Idol auditions and Caleb Johnson, Chris […]
A Conversation with Tessanne Chin
March 1, 2016 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com The Voice is celebrating its tenth season on NBC! Last night, original coaches Adam Levine, Blake Shelton and Christina Aguilera along with fan-favorite and Season Eight winning coach Pharrell Williams began the tenth installment of the Blind Auditions. Among the artists that took part in the Blind Auditions process is […]
New Music Releases: Week of February 26, 2016
February 26, 2016 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Welcome to the latest edition of New Music Releases! It is hard to believe that February is almost over and that Spring is on the way. To mark this transition, several Top 40 favorites and music legends have released new tunes and albums that might be in the rotation at […]
A Conversation with Davis Mallory
February 24, 2016 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Imagine you just finished participating in a season of one of MTV’s most recognizable reality TV shows of all-time! While everyone is celebrating at the show’s after-party, one single question haunts your mind: “What am I going to do next?” That was the question Davis Mallory asked the producer of the […]
