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.

Interview: Peter Cullen and Frank Welker

  For decades, Frank Welker and Peter Cullen have been titans in the animation voice acting industry. Cullen is known for his immediately recognizable bass voice, which he has lent to such characters as Optimus Prime in Transformers and Eeyore…

Album Review: The Chills – “Silver Bullets”

Even if they never released a full length LP, The Chills’ place in the history of independent music and would have been secured with the release of their first singles. Those early songs, released on the iconic Flying Nun label…

Blur prepare “New World Towers” documentary

It’s been a banner 2015 for Britpop icons Blur. Their first new album since 2003, The Magic Whip, has been critically acclaimed and there’s much anticipation for their performance at Madison Square Garden on Friday (the show’s opener, Courtney Barnett, is…

New(ish) Music Tuesdays: 10/20/15

Welcome back to New(ish) Music Tuesday, our semi-regular feature in which our staff picks the songs that they haven’t been able to get enough of over the past week. We took a couple weeks off, but we’re back to talk…

TV Review: Heroes Reborn Episode 4 – The Needs of the Many

Did anyone want Heroes back? Was their anyone who was actually glad that this consistently disappointing and often ridiculous show was back on the airwaves for a fifth season “event miniseries”? Why did NBC greenlight the renewal of a show no one really…

TYF Discusses the 2016 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nominees

Every year in October, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame releases a shortlist of nominees for induction, and this year’s choices are surprisingly strong. While they can’t nor won’t please everyone – cue the anonymous commenter who is angry that…

New(ish) Music Tuesdays: 9/29/2015

Welcome back to New(ish) Music Tuesday, in which The Young Folks staff share their favorite new songs. This week, we have a comeback song from rapper Game, a new cut from Naughty Boy, one of the songs from Ryan Adams’…