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: 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…

TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (2×14): “Falling Slowly”

I’ve said a few times in these reviews that one of the best things about The Last Man on Earth is the weird but loving relationship that developed between Carol and Tandy and in turn, the effortless comedic chemistry between…

TYF Music Podcast: Episode 4 – Remembering Prince

On April 21, news broke that music icon Prince had been found dead in his Paisley Park studio in Chanhassen, Minn. The news stunned the music world, which in the first few months of 2016 had already seen the deaths…

Our Favorite Music Biopics

We’ve seen a revival in the music biopic over the last few months between the releases of three movies. Miles Ahead follows jazz icon Miles Davis during his 1970s hiatus from music. I Saw the Light charts the life and death of…

TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (2×14): “Fourth Finger”

On this week’s episode of The Last Man on Earth, the Mike and Tandy feud boils over into a cartoonish back-and-forth that while funny at times, feels like the wrong path for this show to go down. At the end…

TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (2×13): “Skidmark”

  The unlikely but inevitable reunion of the Miller brothers has been something that The Last Man on Earth has been building to all season. Although it could have been saved for the season finale, the allure of Jason Sudeikis…

Album Review: Frightened Rabbit – “Painting of a Panic Attack”

Frightened Rabbit’s music has never been particularly upbeat. The Scottish indie rock quartet has made their name from dour, folky rock songs that have endeared them to their passionate fanbase. For most of their career, they were the flagship band…