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…

2016 Midyear Review: Best in Music

We’re already halfway through 2016, and in the first sixth months of year, we’ve the release of several albums that are shaping up to be remembered for years to come. We at the Young Folks asked some of our writers…

New(ish) Music Tuesdays: 5/3/16

Welcome to New(ish) Music Tuesdays, our monthly feature in which members of the TYF staff write about our favorite new songs. This month, we have our first big edition in a long while as several of our writers contributed to…

Album Review: Birdy releases new album “Beautiful Lies”

You may not know it, but there’s more to English singer/songwriter Birdy, than her cover of “Skinny Love.”

New(ish) Music Tuesdays: 1/5/2016

Welcome to the New(ish) Music Tuesday, our semi-regular column where our writers highlight the songs that they can’t get enough of. For the first installment of 2016, we check out Radiohead’s scrapped Bond theme, new music from Birdy, Bring Me…