2016 was a big year for music! While we lost remarkable artists, hundreds of artists from four generations released excellent albums. Hypothetically, if we counted down every album that was released, we would probably be in the middle of the Top 400s of our countdown by the time Ryan Seacrest countdowns to midnight during Dick […]
Jake’s Take: The Best Albums of 2016…So Far: Part Two
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Earlier this year, I wrote part one of the Best Albums of 2016…So Far! Missed it? Read it here! Since July, some of our favorite artists dropped excellent albums, and they have been featured on Jake’s Take: New Music Reviews. Without further ado, here are the final 13 records that will […]
Jake’s Take’s New Music Reviews: Week of August 19, 2016
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Welcome to another exciting edition of Jake’s Take’s New Music Reviews! This week, I will look the latest offerings from the Queen of Country Music, several rising artists, two friends of the blog and the one and only Britney Spears! Let’s get this party started! Pure & Simple by Dolly Parton […]
Jake’s Take’s New Music Reviews: Week of July 29, 2016
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Welcome to another exciting edition of Jake’s Take’s New Music Reviews! Let’s get this party started! The Definition of by Fantasia One of my favorite R&B/Soul artists to have come from the recently departed American Idol was Fantasia Barrino. Every time she hit the Idol stage, Fantasia told a story and […]
Jake’s Take’s New Music Reviews: Week of July 15, 2016
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Welcome to another exciting edition of Jake’s Take’s New Music Reviews! We got a lot of ground to cover, so let’s get this party started! We’re All Somebody from Somewhere by Steven Tyler For the first time in his lengthy and legendary career, Steven Tyler dropped his first solo studio album! […]