By: Jacob Elyachar After Friday’s artists took the Dancefestopia stage by storm, I had high expectations about Day Two of Kansas City’s high-energy music festival. When I arrived at Dancefestopia, I saw dozens of concertgoers with panda masks covering their faces. These panda masks are the calling cards of the Baltimore-based Secret Panda Society. Rob […]
Dancefestopia Recap: Day One
June 2, 2012 By
By: Jacob Elyachar Hundreds of concertgoers headed to the Richard L. Berkley Riverfront Park in Downtown Kansas City to partake in the area’s first giant dance festival. Many different artists took to the Pitch main stage and delivered impeccable performances. Several of the performers including Irv Da Phenom, Iggy Azalea and New Boyz signed […]
Jacob Interviews….DJ Ashton Martin
June 1, 2012 By
By: Jacob Elyachar Five years ago, Ashton Martin graduated from the University of Kansas; he began the journey to nightlife dominance. Under the wings of DJ B-Stee and DJ Archie, Ashton began to blossom as a DJ. Now, he is one of the Midwest’s most popular DJs as his mixes have been listened at numerous […]
Jacob Interviews…Sideswipe’s Matt Mullins
May 30, 2012 By
By: Jacob Elyachar For the past couple of years, Matt Mullins has been at the top of his game. He created the Sideswipe Performance Team, an Xtreme Martial Arts group that have made appearances on 30 Seconds to Fame and participated on two seasons of America’s Got Talent. Since those appearances on the NBC hit […]
Jacob Interviews…The Voice’s Kim Yarbrough, Part One
May 29, 2012 By
By: Jacob Elyachar One of the strongest performers that appeared on the second season of The Voice was 51-year-old Kim Yarbrough. Since her Blind Audition, she captured the audience with her enchanting voice. But before she went on the NBC hit, Kim already had quite the resume. She has performed in countless theatrical […]
Jacob’s Eye On…Dancefestopia 2012
May 28, 2012 By
By: Jacob Elyachar One of the most highly anticipated music festivals taking place this summer is Dancefestopia. Located in Downtown Kansas City’s Richard L. Berkley Riverfront Park, concertgoers will have the opportunity attend this two-day high energy music festival which will not feature major artists including Wiz Khalifa, Flo Rida, Dev, 30H!3 and Matisyahu but […]
Happy 35th Anniversary Star Wars! (The Top Six Star Wars Fights)
May 25, 2012 By
By: Jacob Elyachar Star Wars celebrates its thirty-fifth anniversary today. This movie franchise changed everything in both the science fiction and fantasy genres in cinema. If Star Wars did not become successful, then any future franchises including Alien, Avatar and the Transformers would not exist. Jacobelyacharjournalist.com is honoring the six-film franchise by counting down the […]
The Most Memorable American Idol Finale Performances of All-Time
May 23, 2012 By
By: Jacob Elyachar Since the show’s humble beginnings back in 2002, American Idol’s season finales have always featured incredible surprise guests and astonishing parings between a contestant and a music legend. This blog post revisits some of these best performances and hopes that American Idol: Season 11 delivers another spectacular finale. Elliott Yamin and Mary […]
New Music Tuesday-Week of May 20, 2012
May 22, 2012 By
By: Jacob Elyachar Welcome to a new edition of New Music Tuesday! This week, I will be looking at new albums from John Mayer, Haley Rinehart and Sara Bareilles. In addition to these albums, New Music Tuesday will also review and grade new singles from Big & Rich and Chris Brown. Born and Raised-John Mayer […]
The Top 10 Best Peformancs from American Idol Season 11, Part Two
May 22, 2012 By
By: Jacob Elyachar Stop! If you have not read part one of this two-part series, click on the link before you read this article: https://jakes-take.com/2012/05/21/the-top-10-best-performances-from-american-idol-season-11-part-one/ The American Idol finale is where dreams are realized and superstars are born. Tonight, Jessica Sanchez and Phillip Phillips will perform three songs: their favorite performance of the season, Idol […]
