The TYF Monthly Mixtape: March 2020

In our TYF Monthly Mixtape feature, our music writers share Spotify playlists of the songs – new and old – they’ve had on repeat for the last month. This column is back for 2020, and this time we’re sharing some…

‘Pose’ Music Breakdown: Episode 2×03 “Butterfly/Cocoon”

Ryan Murphy’s FX series, Pose, is set in the ball culture world of New York City, 1990. The music is such a large part of the viewing experience that you could spill hundreds of words discussing what each song means, and/or…

Album Review: Dawn Richard – “new breed”

Last year was the year of the woman in music; the most thoughtful and interesting albums came most often from female auteurs pushing at societal and artistic boundaries. And Dawn Richard’s new breed, the most interesting album of the year so…

From the Record Crate: Prince – “1999” (1982)

1999 has gained poignancy since The Purple One’s death last year. It’s not just the effect of hearing a voice from beyond the grave that sounds so alive, though that’s definitely part of it. It’s also the words he’s singing,…

Melody on Music: Breaking Streaming Records

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…

20 Years of ‘The Fifth Element’

They don’t make ’em like that anymore. By that I mean The Fifth Element, which came out twenty years ago today. We got a seemingly ordinary cab driver, Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis), whose past has given him the skills that…

From the Record Crate: Prince – “Sign o’ the Times”

1987 was a busy time to be Prince: He disbanded The Revolution, his backup band that had become as synonymous with his name as his love symbol. While he did try to make one more album for Revolution members Wendy…