Album Review: Laura Marling – “A Song for Our Daughter”

Laura Marling’s latest is an example of what the young and prolific English singer-songwriter does best. A Song for Our Daughter is subtle and simple, yet intricate; and efficient yet somehow sprawling. Marling makes everything she does here appear effortless. Because of…

Album Review: Leonard Cohen – “Thanks for the Dance”

I was in the minority who believed that Leonard Cohen’s You Want it Darker was a stronger end-of-life album than David Bowie’s Blackstar in 2016, and I stand by that opinion now. Deep, dark, and strange, it sounded like it was recorded…

Marianne & Leonard Words of Love Movie Review: A complex portrait of a troubled romance

In the early 60s, a young struggling fiction writer named Leonard Cohen became struck by the lavish beauty of the Greek isle of Hydra, a welcome respite from the chilling winds of Quebec. There, he became involved with the woman…

This is Pop? Podcast Episode 13: 2018 Grammy Predictions

  The nominees for the 60th annual Grammy Awards were announced on Nov. 28 and included nods for several of the biggest acts of 2017, from Kendrick Lamar and Bruno Mars to Kesha and The National. Like many music and…

Melody on Music: Five Stages of Grief

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 earlier this month, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks,. “Desperate times call…