Album Review: Old 97’s – “Twelfth”

“I believe in love, but it don’t believe in me.” I’ve loved the Old 97’s ever since those deceptively simple words, easy to understand yet packed with meaning, and the crazy catchy hook beneath them, etched their way into my…

Album Review: Old 97’s – “Graveyard Whistling”

  The prospect of moving forward is a strange thing for Old 97’s. Most Messed Up, their most successful release in over a decade was a throwback to what worked during their Too Far to Care peak. And though vision was…

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…

Rhett Miller of Old 97’s Announces New Solo Album

Less than a year after Old 97’s released their acclaimed 10th studio album Most Messed Up, the band’s lead singer Rhett Miller has officially announced his upcoming solo album. In a Rolling Stone article published today, it was revealed that the album…

15 Albums You May Have Missed in 2014

We’re in the final months of the year. For music geeks, that means obsessive listening to try and catch up with what we missed. At this point, everyone who cares has heard Taylor Swift’s 1989, country fans have likely heard Miranda Lambert’s fabulous Platinum and…