The 4th Annual Global Citizen Festival lineup was announced last week and…wow. The Global Citizen Festival is a music festival held in New York City’s Central Park with the goal to help end extreme poverty in the world by the…
Midyear Review: Best in Music in 2015
The first six months of 2015 have gone by, and there are already so many good songs and albums that deserve some recognition, even before the year ends. The Young Folks team has come together to list the best in…
The Young Folks vs. The Top 40: Week of March 5, 2015
Since 1958, the Billboard Hot 100 has been the definitive chart gauging the biggest singles in the United States, with particular attention to the top 40 positions. Top 40 is so ingrained in music culture that an entire radio format…
The Top 40 SNL Skits for SNL’s 40th Anniversary
SNL. Saturday Night Live. The place where comedy and comedians make it. Just like the city it quintessentially represents, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. And we have forty years to look at. As you…
Album Review: Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack
What better way to kick off the highly anticipated Fifty Shades of Grey movie week than with a soundtrack? Maybe with Jamie Dornan in the flesh but we can’t have that, so I guess this will do. This soundtrack features…
Why Post-Grammy Beck/Beyoncé Bashing Makes You Worse Than Kanye
I have to start off by saying I am both a fan of Beyoncé and Beck, with my love of Beck blooming before Beyoncé even became a solo artist. In case you’ve been living the life of a reclusive hermit and haven’t…
Movie Review: ‘Strange Magic’
Gary Rydstrom’s Strange Magic is a nice film. But, as Mr. Sondheim reminds us, nice is different than good. It is a nice film for several reasons, chief among them being the central plot itself. Predictably for a film based…