Recently making waves across the music world has been Jingle Ball, a concert series promoted by iHeartRadio and featuring different lineups of popular performance in almost every major city in the United States. I had the chance to attend the…
Album Review: DNCE – “DNCE”
Chances are, you’ve heard of DNCE by now. About a year ago, the band made a splash with its first single, which generated buzz based on two intriguing facts: 1) the song was called “Cake by the Ocean” and 2)…
TYF Rates the Hot 100: Week of July 26, 2016
Since 1958, the Billboard Hot 100 has been the definitive chart gauging the biggest singles in the United States, with particular attention paid to the top 40 positions. Top 40 is so ingrained in music culture that an entire radio…
New(ish) Music Tuesdays: 3/8/16
Welcome to the latest installment New(ish) Music Tuesdays, our semi-regular (and apparently monthly now?) feature in which The Young Folks staff write about their favorite new songs. This time out, we have some shoegazing from Russia, a defunct punk band,…
The Young Folks’ Most Anticipated of 2016
As you can read from all of our lists, we loved 2015 and all the great shows, movies, music, books and video games released throughout the year. Now on the first day of 2016, we are already excited for what’s to…