‘Forever’ review: the return of Phife Dawg is an honorable and memorable salute

Posthumous albums are already a tall order to manufacture, ensuring that the artist’s history, distinct aura and, artistic style are all imbued into quality performances and sufficient new material. But it’s quite another task to encapsulate all of these components…

Predicting the 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees

Earlier this month, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced the nominees for its 2022 class. By and large, most of the artists on that list are worthy of enshrinement and the nominating committee did a good job at…

The Young Folks’ Top 50 Albums of the 2010s

In a decade that saw the rise of streaming, the album came out of the 2010s alive and well. The LP rose again, dwarfing the dying compact disc by the end of the decade, and some of the biggest artists…

Festival Review: 2017 Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival

Just like that Bay Area, one of the biggest music festivals inched our way closer to closing out the summer music festivals for this year. We needed to take a day for ourselves to recover but we’re ready to give…

TYF Music Podcast: Episode 5 – The 2017 Grammys

The Young Folks Music Podcast is back! We’ve taken off the past 10 months for a variety of reasons, but we’re back with a vengeance with our 2017 Grammys roundup. In this episode, TYF music editor Ryan Gibbs and music…

Favorite Albums of 2016: Staff Picks

  2016 had its ups and downs (okay, mostly downs), but you can’t deny that it had a great soundtrack. You’ve already seen our Top 50 Albums of 2016 list, now check out what our music writers’ personal lists of…

The Young Folks’ Top 50 Albums of 2016

This year, The Young Folks has compiled its first ever Top 50 Albums list. The albums and their positions were chosen through balloting of six TYF writers: editor-in-chief Gabrielle Bondi, music editor Ryan Gibbs, film editor Allyson Johnson and music…