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
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 […]
The Top 10 Best Performances from American Idol Season 11, Part One
By: Jacob Elyachar Tomorrow night, Phillip Phillips and Jessica Sanchez will perform their final three songs on the American Idol finale which will be filmed at the Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live. While they are prepping for one of the biggest nights in their lives, jacobelyacharjournalist.com has prepared a two-part series highlighting the 10 best […]
The Top 10 Performances from The Voice’s Second Season-Part One
By: Jacob Elyachar Tonight is part one of the Voice’s season finale. There have been incredible performances from this season but if fans could pick 10, they would have a tough time picking them out. So, jacobelyacharjournalist.com has picked the 10 best performances from some of this year’s outstanding contestants in a two-part series that […]
New Music Tuesday-Week of April 15, 2012
By: Jacob Elyachar In this edition of New Music Tuesday, I will be discussing several new releases including Train’s new album California 37 and new singles from Adam Lambert, Maroon 5, B.o.B and Timbaland. California 37 (Train) Train dropped its sixth studio album: California 37 today. This album showcases more pop rock than ever […]
New Music Tuesday-Week of April 8, 2012
By: Jacob Elyachar This week’s edition of New Music Tuesday focuses on the new album releases from Bonnie Raitt, Monica and American Idol’s Elliott Yamin. In addition, this author reviews the latest singles from Kanye West, Jason Mraz and Country Artists for Soles4Soul. Slipstream-Bonnie Raitt Slipstream is Bonnie Raitt’s first studio […]
Aretha Franklin at 70
By: Jacob Elyachar Happy Birthday to the Queen of Soul who turns 70-years-old today! To help celebrate Aretha’s birthday, jacobelyacharjournalist.com has prepared a countdown of her best songs that you should have in your music library. 10. Son of a Preacher Man (1970) When Aretha Franklin sings a cover of […]
The 20 Best Aretha Franklin Collaborations-Part Three
By: Jacob Elyachar La Reina del soul. La Reine de la soul. La Regina del Soul. If you translate all of these Spanish, French and Italian sayings into English, they all translate to “The Queen of Soul.” There is only one Queen of Soul and everyone in the world knows that Aretha Franklin […]
The 20 Best Aretha Franklin Collaborations-Part Two
By: Jacob Elyachar Part two of my series showcases the Queen of Soul collaborating with music icons Dionne Warwick, George Michael and her late god-daughter: Whitney Houston. 15. I Say A Little Prayer (with Dionne Warwick; 1981) Episode 31 of Solid Gold saw a historic duet between longtime friends Aretha Franklin […]