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: Alternative R&B
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. Beginning in 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past…
Melody on Music: AltRootsCountryRock
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. Beginning in 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past…
From the Record Crate – Lou Reed: The Blue Mask (1982)
With The Velvet Underground, singer-songwriter Lou Reed latched onto a level of consistency and innovation that resulted in four incredible albums and enough leftover material that, in 2015, The Complete Matrix Tapes somehow revealed new layers to the band’s genius. But after…
Melody on Music: Leaving America
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. Beginning in 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past…
From the Record Crate: Television – “Marquee Moon” (1977)
Television’s Marquee Moon, now 40 years old and as forward-thinking as ever, is a record that is unassuming in its ability to change a person’s perceptions of rock music. Speaking from personal experience, hearing it for the first time was…
Melody on Music: Let’s Talk About White Guys With Guitars for Once!
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. Beginning in 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past…
