In a decade that saw the rise of streaming, the album came out of the 2010s alive and well. The LP rose again, dwarfing the dying compact disc by the end of the decade, and some of the biggest artists…
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…
Album Review: Japandroids – “Near to the Wild Heart of Life”
The career arc of Japandroids is as important to the Vancouver duo’s legacy as their actual music. The band planned to disband in early 2009, but stuck together after its debut album Post Nothing received rapturous reviews from tastemaking websites such…