Author Archives: Jake Ayres

When he’s not obsessing over rappers Lil’ Wayne or Killer Mike, Tom Breihan, one of my favorite music bloggers, will not shut up about “American Idol.”

There have been two golden periods in music history for big bands: the Jazz age, when big brass bands played swing and jazz, and the ’70s, when stoned longhairs got all their friends together to be as loud as possible.

They say you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.

Inky fingers, musty tomes and Prius-driving NPR listeners may very well be intimately associated with the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

I am a sham of a television columnist.

I was just trawling the depths of the Internet for media-related things to write about, like usual, when I stumbled upon what is quickly becoming the most overused demographic term since Generation X: the “YouTube generation.”

That rousing, adventurous, blow-up-the-Death-Star feeling you get when you start watching “Star Wars” is thanks in part to the UCLA composers program, where John Williams got his start.