Melody on Music: No Theme Necessary

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…

Album Review: Thundercat ‘Drunk’

The bass guitar is a more powerful and influential instrument than one would think. John Entwistle helped start rock and roll with his ending bass solo on “My Generation,” Bernard Odom gave James Brown the bounce on “Cold Sweat,” Lemmy…

Album Review: Kendrick Lamar “untitled unmastered”

It’s nearly impossible to be the best artist in a genre because no matter what you do or have done, everyone is waiting on your next move. When The White Stripes first dropped White Blood Cells and the Lego video…