Jake’s Take’s New Music Reviews: Week of March 6, 2026

By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Happy New Music, Friday! Welcome to the first March 2026 edition of Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar’s New Music Reviews! We got a lot of music to unpack, so let’s start this party!   Deadline EP by BLACKPINK K-pop group BLACKPINK is back! Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa, and Rosé dropped their latest […]

Jake’s Take’s New Music Reviews: Week of Jan. 16, 2026

By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Welcome to the very first Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar’s New Music Reviews of 2026! We have a lot of new music to unpack, so let’s start this party! BEFORE I FORGET by The Kid LAROI Australian superstar The Kid LAROI (real name: Charlton Howard) has been one of this decade’s […]

Jake’s Take’s New Music Reviews: Week of January 31, 2025

  By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Welcome to the second 2025 edition of Jake’s Take’s New Music Reviews! We have a lot of new music to unpack, so let’s start this party!     NGL by JoJo The 2020s have been a renaissance for singer-songwriter Joanna “JoJo” Levesque. She competed in The Masked Singer, portrayed Satine […]

Jake’s Take’s New Music Reviews: Week of Aug. 23, 2024

  By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com  Happy New Music Friday! We got a lot of new music to unpack, so let’s get this party started!   Rayo by J Balvin Colombian superstar J Balvin dropped his sixth studio album, Rayo. The “6 AM” performer returned to his Reggaeton roots and released a hypnotic batch of tunes […]

The Five Best Performances from the 2011 VMAS

This entry is based only on my opinion on MTV’s 2011 Video Music Awards. The VMAs were rocking last night and many of music’s biggest stars came out in force to celebrate the crème de la crème of music videos.   But the best parts of the VMAs had to be the performances and the tributes […]

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