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 Monthly Mixtape: April 2020

In our TYF Monthly Mixtape feature, our music writers share Spotify playlists of the songs – new and old – they’ve had on repeat for the last month. This column is back for 2020, and this time we’re sharing some…

Album Review: Waxahatchee’s “Saint Cloud” is a folk-rock triumph

How fitting that Katie Crutchfield would release her best album in the midst of an unprecedented (in our lifetimes at least) global storm, given that her last album was called, well, Out in the Storm. Of course, Crutchfield conceived and recorded Saint…

Album Review: Waxahatchee – “Great Thunder”

Arriving after her 2017 LP, Out in the Storm, Katie Crutchfield’s new release as Waxahatchee plays like an extended comedown from that last album. While Storm was full-bodied and full of high-spirited, agitated rock and noise, the Great Thunder EP…

The Young Folks’ Top 50 Albums of 2017

For the second year in a row, The Young Folks music staff has compiled a list of our Top 50 favorite albums of the year. For the 2017 installment we have expanded the list to include all 16 active music…

Music News: Phase Two of Noise Pop Festival 2018 Announced

Noise Pop Festival recently announced the second phase of their music lineup featuring artists such as Built to Spill (performing their classic 1999 album Keep It Like A Secret in its entirety), psychedelic-pop Dengue Fever, and more. Over 30 new…

Album Review: Waxahatchee – “Out in the Storm”

After the surprise success of 2015’s Ivy Tripp, it seemed as though Waxahatchee, the main project of singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield, had plateaued. The album hit hard with the indie rock crowd and received waves of adoration from many influential publications.…