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.

New(ish) Music Tuesdays: 6/7/2016

Welcome to New(ish) Music Tuesdays, our monthly feature in which members of the TYF staff write about our favorite new songs. This month, our staff recommends a whole slew of new songs, including the brand new single from Beck, a…

Album Review: The Monkees – “Good Times!”

The story of The Monkees has become so ingrained in the history of rock & roll that it needs little repetition. The short of it: A band formed for a television sitcom rebels against its svengali to become a real…

Music news: The Strokes announce new EP, premiere three new songs

  New York City rock alternative rockers The Strokes broke a three year silence on Thursday with the announcement of a new EP and the subsequent premieres of all three of its new songs. The EP, titled Future Present Past will…

TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (2×16): “30 Years of Science Down the Tubes”

  The best episodes of The Last Man on Earth have always been the ones that are directly related to the show’s brutal post-apocalyptic setting. In a way, the show has been like this all along – all the love…

Music news: The Stone Roses release new single

British rock group The Stone Roses have released their first single in over two decades in advance of their summer concert dates in Europe and the United States. “All for One” marks the first new music from the group since…

TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (2×15): “Smart and Stupid”

I can’t help but feel like this week’s episode of The Last Man on Earth feels like two episodes that were smashed together. That’s not necessarily a critique. In fact, I believe that the sudden swerve in the middle of…

Music news: Kickstarter launched for final Game Theory album

A Kickstarter campaign has been started to help fund the completion and release of the final album by power pop group Game Theory. The album, titled Supercalifragile, will be the band’s first since 1988’s Two Steps from the Middle Ages. Initial work on the…