Melody Danielle Rice
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Melody is 23 years old, and lives in Ypsilanti, MI. She recently graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a double-major in Journalism and Women’s and Gender Studies. She is a pop culture geek, obsessively consuming music, film, and T.V. Since she was 16, she has wanted to be a cultural critic, and she spends most of her free time listening to music, watching films, researching, and writing. Tumblr: http://memorize-your-lines.tumblr.com/

Melody on Music: Breaking Streaming Records

Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. In 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past installments…

Melody on Music: Peaceful Noise

Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. In 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past installments…

Melody on Music: Country Masters (At Their Best and Worst)

Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. In 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past installments…

Melody on Music: Bandcamp Music

Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. In 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past installments…

Melody on Music: Lesser Known Women of Country

Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. In 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past installments…

Melody on Music: Noise

Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. In 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past installments…

Chuck Berry’s 10 Greatest Songs

The passing of Chuck Berry on March 18 brought with it a huge collection of tribute pieces, many of which asked an important question: did Chuck Berry create rock and roll? Rock criticism has been trying to narrow down rock…