For the third year in running, The Young Folks music staff has compiled a list of our Top 50 favorite albums of the year. As with last year, the list was compiled through the votes of our music staff, plus…
Album Review: Soccer Mommy – “Clean”
On Clean, her first official album as Soccer Mommy, Clean, singer-songwriter Sophie Allison crafts a succinct record about romantic insecurity and a personal reckoning with bad habits and instincts to overcome. Several songs—in particular, the second track “Cool”—evoke the light-grunge, DIY…
TYF’s Top 10 Albums of 2018 (So Far)
2018 has already seen plenty of great music, and fans of pretty much every genre should be quite content with the records that have come out in the first half of year. We’ve seen career defining masterpieces, impressive debuts and…
Concert Review: Paramore/Foster the People – Columbia, MD, 6/23/18
When I walked into Merriweather Post Pavilion to see Soccer Mommy, Foster the People, and Paramore, the first thing I noticed was how colorful everyone looked. Many were wearing clothing with bright hues and patterns; several people also had glitter…