It’s been said that so much poetry is sad because it’s far easier to say something new about suffering than it is to say something new about happiness. This proposition sheds some light on the differe…
Album Review: Amber Coffman – “City of No Reply”
For her first solo album City of No Reply Amber Coffman, formerly of the Dirty Projectors, has crafted a batch of songs that largely evoke the struggle of learning to love yourself, and know that you …
Matt on Music: No Theme Necessary
Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Matt Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. In 2016, Matt relaunched this column…
Album Review: Dirty Projectors — “Dirty Projectors”
Perhaps more so than usual, especially of late, I walk away from Dirty Projectors’ latest, self-titled album Dirty Projectors of two different, maddeningly inconsistent minds. The first album to…