Twen Create One of 2025’s Best Rock Albums
Melding late 1960s and early 2000s pop/rock, Twen slide under the wire with one of 2025’s finest rock records, Fate Euphoric.
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.
25 Essential Funeral Songs of the 1960s-1990s
We have yet to hear a pop song played at a funeral, let alone 25 of them. What’s the last song you want to hear… forever? These funeral songs suit the moment.
The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon Brings His Baroque Fashion to the Conversation
With the release of Rainy Sunday Afternoon, The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon discusses his music and deceptive personas – his and others’.
15 Breakup Songs That Are Vicious, Painful, and Bitter
A friend requested a hopeful, forward-thinking breakup playlist to help soothe their pain. We send these 15 bitter breakup songs instead.
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
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’
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
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
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
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 a gleeful, rip-roaring, endlessly entertaining beat-down of everything sensitive or delicate in our homogenized society.
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.