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: 4/5/16

Welcome to New(ish) Music Tuesdays, our monthly feature in which members of the TYF staff write about our favorite new songs. This week, we have six song recommendations from two different writers to fill your playlists with. Ryan Gibbs’ picks…

TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (2×12): “Fish in the Dish”

Two weeks ago, there was no new episode of The Last Man on Earth because FOX aired Tyler Perry’s delightfully baffling The Passion Live in place of its regular Sunday night lineup. I missed LMOE, but I was willing to wait…

Video Game Review: “Atari Vault”

Atari is no stranger to repackaging the games from its 1970s and ‘80s golden age. The various companies that have owned — or been called — Atari since the original company went bankrupt in 1996 have released countless compilations on…

TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (2×11): “Valhalla”

Returning to Malibu following last week’s excursion to Miami to follow Mike’s return to Earth, “Valhalla” finds the group mourning the death of Phil 2. As I touched upon last week, the thing that sets The Last Man on Earth…

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,…

TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (2×10): “Pitch Black”

When we last left The Last Man on Earth in December, the show ended on a double cliffhanger. the other Phil Miller (Boris Kodjoe) flatlined during a bungled appendix removal — a routine procedure he would have survived if life…

Album Review: The 1975 – “I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It”

The early years of the British pop-rock group The 1975 are awash in an unusual amount of myth-making for a band from this decade (Ian Cohen has the basics in the first few paragraphs of his review of their first…