NOTD consists of 17-year-old Samuel Brandt (Sam) and 19-year-old Tobias Danielsson (Tobi) who met each other on Soundcloud. The two later ended up attending the same high school in southern Sweden and have been producing sick remixes ever since. They have…
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth Pre-Patch Launches Today
The time has come World of Warcraft players, the Battle for Azeroth expansion is less than a month away and with that comes the 8.0 pre-patch that will become available later today at approximately 6pm EST. As with all other…
Big Brother 20 Review: “Week 2”
There is a reality TV lesson that was reinforced during the second week of Big Brother 20: Never solely depend on your first-week alliance! Competitive shows change week-to-week and the balance of power shifts on a dime. While the starting…
Battlebots Chat: Episode 8×10
For this new season of Battlebots, The Young Folks’ music editor Ryan Gibbs and contributing writer Joey Daniewicz will be giving their impressions of each episode in our recurring feature Battlebots Chat. These will be a little more informal than…
Shock and Awe Movie Review: An Easily Digestible Bore
Shock and Awe exists exclusively to exploit a market for journalism movies whittled down into easily digestible, unchallenging chunks, à la James Vanderbilt’s 2015 clunker Truth. This heavy-handed pat on the back for the only reporters who “got it right”…
Album Review: Gorillaz – “The Now Now”
During Gorillaz’ 2010 American tour behind Plastic Beach, frontman/co-creator Damon Albarn decided to pass the time on the road by making an entirely new album on his iPad. Released on Christmas Day that year, The Fall was Albarn’s personal diary…
The Film Canon: The Great Silence (1968)
At first glance there is little to distinguish between Jean-Louis Trintignant’s spaghetti western protagonist ‘Silence’ and Clint Eastwood’s ‘Man with No Name’. But over the course of Sergio Corbucci’s The Great Silence we see, not only a completely new figure…