Marc Edelstein

An Ivy League education, two decades roaming corporate IT departments – and now Marc makes his living chasing drug addicts for rent money. But through it all, there was music.
Poster Children Discuss 1995’s Brilliant LP ‘Junior Citizen’ at 30

Poster Children Discuss 1995’s Brilliant LP ‘Junior Citizen’ at 30

Poster Children‘s Junior Citizen remains a refreshing, barely-polished masterpiece, like garish, late-night anime on steroids. The group discuss the album.

15 Awe-inspiring Rock Guitar Solos You Might Not Know

15 Awe-inspiring Rock Guitar Solos You Might Not Know

Guitar solos are an intrinsic highlight of rock history. Here we turn over some stones to discover 15 performances lacking the plaudits they deserve.

French Shoegazers Healees Add Deft Power Pop on ‘Coin de l’œil’

French Shoegazers Healees Add Deft Power Pop on ‘Coin de l’œil’

Channeling For Against and classic Stone Roses, Healees’ Coin de l’œil fuses jangle, shoegaze, and power pop into something beyond those genres.

15 Same-Title Songs Go Head-to-Head

15 Same-Title Songs Go Head-to-Head

We rank 15 pairs of songs with shared titles and unearthed some wonderfully incongruous mashups and plenty of sacrilegious opinions.

No Slump Here: 10 Excellent Sophomore Albums

No Slump Here: 10 Excellent Sophomore Albums

Every now and then, a promising act pulls it all together on their second outing. When careers are done, it’s these special second efforts we remember most.

Indietronic Antiheroes +/- Still Attract Over Two Decades In

Indietronic Antiheroes +/- Still Attract Over Two Decades In

A pandemic-era plan to soft-drop a series of EPs proved difficult, so New York’s digi-pop alternates +/- pivoted to a new LP that stands amongst their best.

Cicadastone’s ‘Future Echoes’ Is Grunge’s Rip-Roaring Last Stand

Cicadastone’s ‘Future Echoes’ Is Grunge’s Rip-Roaring Last Stand

Cicadastone’s Future Echoes is a gleeful, rip-roaring, endlessly entertaining beat-down of everything sensitive or delicate in our homogenized society.

Snow Blinded: The 15 Best Styx Songs

Snow Blinded: The 15 Best Styx Songs

Progressive rock, arena rock, romantic ballads: Styx’s catalog presents an enviable chain of success, one that still yields surprises 50 years later.

Disorientations ‘Echo’ Chameleons and Bunnymen Post-Punk

Disorientations ‘Echo’ Chameleons and Bunnymen Post-Punk

Antwerp Belgium’s Disorientations completely revamp their “Chameleons/Echo and the Bunnymen” post-punk sound on this impressive sophomore effort.

Sunday League Resurrect Competent Britpop

Sunday League Resurrect Competent Britpop

Neo-Britpoppers Sunday League bring baroque rock muscle, energetic walls of sound, plus enough British pub swagger to nick your pint right off the bar.

10 Fresh Driving Songs for Hitting the Road

10 Fresh Driving Songs for Hitting the Road

Does your cruising playlist sound a bit hoary these days? Here are ten fresh driving songs, rocking highway anthems to get your motor running.

Get Hooked: 15 Classic Songs About Addiction

Get Hooked: 15 Classic Songs About Addiction

Great artists suffer, so we don’t have to! Rather than face such personal demons ourselves, we list 15 classic songs about addiction for the morning after.