Author Archives: Jake Ayres

As usual for anything non-rap-related, I’m at least six months behind (in this case, close to a year). I just caught wind of a young Australian musician called Sam Sparro, whose album came out last April.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the new great white hope: Asher Roth. Or perhaps more accurately, the great white hype. By now, I’m sure most of the college population has heard Roth’s hot new jam, “I Love College,” a paean to binge-drinking, smoking marijuana, frat parties and casual sex in an academic setting. Needless to […]

In the age of rampant album leaks, there’s almost no reason to anticipate release dates anymore, much to the chagrin of artists worldwide. However, for certain releases, I, and I’m sure many other music fans, do make exceptions.

Kanye Omari West has had some ridiculous quotes in the past year alone, but he may have outdone himself when he held forth on various topics while filming his “VH1 Storytellers” special.

A little more than two weeks ago, many concertgoers felt a disturbance in the force.

Why isn’t there a fatwa against Busta Rhymes by now?

From the hours of approximately 11:30 p.m., Feb. 9, to 1 a.m. Feb. 10, everyone in my apartment was in disbelief.