‘Medicine at Midnight’ review: Foo Fighters’ failures continue but at least they’re not dull

For as legendary as the Foo Fighters are, outside of a few singled-out LPs, the group’s album-based consistency has been a disappointing affair—especially since 2011’s solid Wasting Light. Both Sonic Highways (2014) and Concrete and Gold (2017) are muddled-down attempts…

Album Review: Muse – “Simulation Theory”

Muse were always over-the-top. Which is probably why I adored them as a teenager – teenage emotions tend towards the over-the-top, as you’ll be surprised to hear me observe. Yet like Queen and Meat Loaf, their over-the-topness was streaked with…

Melody on Music: Heaviness

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…