“Hushed and Grim” Review: The new album from Mastodon is complex and innovative

Nowadays most artists focus on releasing singles, especially in pop and EDM, and then later package them into EPs or albums. Why? Because of streaming platforms, playlists, and “music consumption,” which pushes artists and labels to pursue “album equivalents,” witnessed…

Album Review: Deafheaven – “Ordinary Corrupt Human Love”

Black metal is a genre that appears more repugnant than most to outsiders who (gratefully) exist outside of its cult – a quick look at the Wikipedia page lets us know as much as we would ever need to know…

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…