So here we are with one week until the extended season finale of The Walking Dead and I have to hope the writers have something great in store for us. I say this because “Something They Need” is the second…
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…
Survivor: Game Changers 34×03 Review: “The Tables Have Turned”
Forget any jaw-dropping Tribal Council you may have seen in the past on Survivor. (Poof! Gone! They’re just eliminations now.) There is a new champion that has taken over the title of “Most Shocking”. You may think I’m being facetious,…
Album Review: Desperate Journalist – “Grow Up”
The cover art of Grow Up, the sophomore record by London post-punk quartet Desperate Journalist, perfectly encapsulates everything that’s magical about the album. In the center of the photograph, a teenage girl—lead singer Jo Bevan in her adolescent years—stands in…
Album Review: Depeche Mode — “Spirit”
Nobody communicates anxiety quite like Depeche Mode. The moody intensity they bring to their music, especially in these past few albums, is chilling and magnificent, hurt and liberated. They are wounded, fragile and aching, but they’re intensely, furiously alive, and…
From the Record Crate: Taking Back Sunday – “Tell All Your Friends” (2002)
It’s hard to talk about emo music without Taking Back Sunday; if you came of age during the early 2000s, you’ve probably yelled to one of their songs at least once in your life. The Long Island emo band has…
First Trailer For ‘Justice League’ Released
The comic-book movie war is heading for its climax, and DC has made the first move. Warner Bros. has released the first official trailer for Justice League, their massive superhero team-up meant as the cornerstone of the DC Cinematic Universe. Again directed…