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.

Songs We’d Like to Hear in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Guardians of the Galaxy was a surprise hit in 2014. Based on a somewhat obscure Marvel title and with relatively few links to the main Marvel Cinematic Universe, the film was a critical and commercial smash, and took in a worldwide…

TV Review: The X-Files Miniseries (10×6): “My Struggle II”

Well, let’s get this over with. Before there was Tim Kring or Damon Lindelof or Steven Moffat or Russell T. Davies, there was Chris Carter. Carter was the ur-genre series showrunner who kept screwing up his own creation by winding…

TYF Music Podcast: Episode 3 – 2016 Grammy Chat

This year’s Grammy Awards were a lot like last year’s – a few impressive performance (Hamilton, Kendrick Lamar, Alabama Shakes), disappointments, moving tributes to late greats and even the occasional Grammy being awarded. For the third episode of the TYF…

2016 Grammy Award Winners Full List

The 58th Annual Grammy Awards were held last night and were host to performances big (Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar), small (seemingly impromptu Stevie Wonder and Miguel performances) and whatever The Hollywood Vampires was supposed to be. During the three and…

TV Review: The X-Files Miniseries (10×4): “Home Again”

Four episodes in, and it looks like the X-Files miniseries has finally shown its hand and revealed one of its major plot lines leading into the finale. William, Mulder and Scully’s child who was born in season eight, is held by…

TYF Music Podcast: Episode 2 – Bowie and Beyond

2016 is only a few weeks old, but the year has already seen the deaths of several major figures in the music world, including Glenn Frey, Maurice White, Dale Griffin, Jon Bunch, Paul Kantner, Signe Anderson, Blowfly, Dan Hicks and…

New(ish) Music Tuesdays: 2/2/16

Welcome to the second installment of New(ish) Music Tuesday of 2016! New(ish) Music Tuesdays is our semi-regular feature in which our writers talk about the songs that they can’t get enough of. This week, we got new music from former One…