Bi-Weekly Hip Hop Roundup: The Three Best

For this edition of the bi-weekly hip hop roundup, we look at three of the best rap songs over the past 10 days. There will be a mixture of underground and mainstream choices this time around. Leave a comment at…

The Young Folks’ Top 50 Albums of 2018

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: Anderson .Paak – “Oxnard”

This is the third Anderson .Paak album to be named after a California coastal town. So it’s the completion of a loose trilogy, and because it’s the one named after his home town, you might expect Oxnard to be .Paak’s most “personal”,…

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…

Album Review: Pusha T – “Daytona”

At this point, Pusha T’s presence and precision is less like a rapper and more like a rattlesnake: he disappears into the wilderness, rarely seen but always known by whoever else is in its kingdom. He shows up out of…

Treasure Island Musical Festival is back and announces full lineup

Treasure Island Musical Festival (TIMF) is back for its eleventh year after taking a year-long hiatus and parting ways with the actual Treasure Island location. This time around, TIMF will call Middle Harbor Shoreline Park (MHSP) its new home for…

Album Review: Linkin Park – “One More Light”

I think that people use the term “sell-out” way too loosely.  In my opinion, we should be judging music based on what the product is, rather than what it should of been.  All musicians are creators, and each project that gets…