Top 50 Best Albums of 2020

What will you remember the most about 2020? Better question: Do you want to remember 2020? We can’t blame you if you don’t. It’s been a very bad year for many reasons. In the world of music, this year saw…

The TYF Midyear Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs from the First Half of 2020

As a companion to our recent midyear album list, some of our writers have put together playlists of their favorite album cuts and singles of the first six months of 2020. Here are those playlists, introduced in a similar manner…

TYF’s Top 10 Albums of 2020 (So Far)

We’ve gotten through six months of one of the most cursed years in recent memory, and one of the few really good things about this first half of a year has been the music – at least, the stuff that…

The Hip Hop Roundup: Protest Songs and Police Reform

It’s year 2020 of hell and shit still hasn’t changed. The police are crooked bandits who fail to see the value in human life once again, and the system itself continues to reward murderous law enforcement with petty slaps on…

Album Review: Run the Jewels – “RTJ4”

“You watch the cops choke out a man like me… ‘til my voice goes from a shriek to a whisper, ‘I can’t breathe’” goes Killer Mike on “Walking in the Snow”, a song recorded months ago, and which now sounds…

Album Review: Danny Brown – “uknowhatimsayin¿”

With dark and rumbling production matched against Danny Brown’s high and reedy voice, his last trilogy of albums have been compelling to say the least. Atrocity Exhibition, released in 2016 to great acclaim, was the darkest and most fucked-up of the…

The Best of What We Saw at Riot Fest 2018

Riot Fest 2018 felt a bit rocky before it had even begun, with schedule delays sparking rumors of the beloved music festival’s cancelation. But once the gates opened at Douglas Park, thousands of diehard punks and metalheads came together to…