Ryan Gibbs
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Ryan Gibbs is a journalist and music critic from Newport, Rhode Island. He is the music editor for The Young Folks, and writes the "Freshwater Phish" column about the rock band Phish.

TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (3×07): “Mama’s Hideaway”

This week’s episode of The Last Man on Earth is a relative letdown following last week’s note perfect installment.  While it hits many of the beats I like in Last Man episodes, many of them felt stale or too low key for…

TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (3×06): “The Open-Ended Nature of Unwitnessed Deaths”

After last week’s solid but somewhat below average scenery setting episode, it’s an absolute joy to see an episode like “The Open-Ended Nature of Unwitnessed Deaths” that both draws upon character relations and development all while keeping the show’s post-apocalyptic…

2016 Rhode Island Comic Con: A TYF Overview

From November 11 to 13, TheYoungFolks.com’s music editor Ryan Gibbs and contributing photographer Megan Phelps attended the Rhode Island Comic Con in Providence, Rhode Island. The following is our in-depth overview of that event. Now in its fifth year, the Rhode…

RI Comic Con 2016: Christian Slater Q&A Panel

From November 11 to 13, TheYoungFolks.com’s music editor Ryan Gibbs and contributing photographer Megan Phelps attended the Rhode Island Comic Con in Providence, Rhode Island. Throughout the next few days, we will be posting coverage, photos and panel audio from…

RI Comic Con 2016: Alice Cooper Q&A Panel

From November 11 to 13, TheYoungFolks.com’s music editor Ryan Gibbs and contributing photographer Megan Phelps will be at the Rhode Island Comic Con in Providence, Rhode Island. Throughout the next few days, we will be posting coverage, photos and panel…

Los Campesinos! announce new album “Sick Scenes”

Welsh indie rock collective Los Campesinos! have announced plans to release their first album in three years this February. Sick Scenes, the band’s sixth album, will be released on February 24 through Wichita Records. The album was recorded in Portugal this summer…

TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (3×05): “The Power of Power”

  Each episode of this season of The Last Man on Earth has picked up right where the last left off. This is probably going to make it a season better watched as a whole in a binge marathon than…