Album Review: Dirty Projectors — “Dirty Projectors”

Perhaps more so than usual, especially of late, I walk away from Dirty Projectors’ latest, self-titled album Dirty Projectors of two different, maddeningly inconsistent minds. The first album to come from the band in five years, it’s both a self-pitying,…

From the Record Crate: Savage Garden – “Savage Garden” (1997)

The debut album of Australian duo Savage Garden, also titled Savage Garden, is a picture-perfect example of late 1990s pop music. Savage Garden the band consists of vocalist Darren Hayes and instrumentalist Daniel Jones. Savage Garden the album was released…

TV Review: Riverdale 1×04 “Chapter Four: The Last Picture Show”

Riverdale had a much better episode this week with “Chapter Four: The Last Picture Show” and kind of got its groove back without trying as hard as they have been. Maybe the writers are finally figuring out what and what…

TYF’s Best Films of 2016

Yesterday you got to see the outcome of our polled best films of 2016. Today, check out below our staffs individual lists for the best films of 2016. We’re all across the spectrum here, from Deadpool to Toni Erdmann and each individual list is…

10 Film Noir for Beginners

So what is film noir? A French term literally translating to “black film,” historians will tell you film noir was an unofficial cycle of American films released in the 40s and 50s that usually centered around stories involving crime and…

Album Review: Green Day – “Revolution Radio”

I get it. A lot of people didn’t like Green Day’s prior work – the ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré! trilogy –  and I can see where a lot of people were coming from. Stretching their talents out to create three separate albums…

Album Review: Frank Ocean “Blonde”

For fans of Frank Ocean the wait for his latest album Blonde has been aggravating, to say the least. With some mighty determination they’ve done their best to brush off any image of fan entitlement but the hunger for his…