Wilfully Obscure

 Aussie bullion from 2004.   **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

It's been another week where I simply didn't get o much of anything in terms of this site, one that feels like it's very slowly ...

From 1995.  Was saddened to learn of the recent loss of this power pop maven.  He may not have vaulted to the highest tier of my favorites, ...

The idea was to get to all 26 letters in the alphabet, when I initiated the "letter" series compilations way back in 2011.  By 201...

From 1993. Likely one of the fifty most listened-to albums in my collection, yet I've been hesitant to share it because I know a good ch...

Though this isn't necessarily designed to be an introduction to Bpeople (ideally you might want to go with their two proper self-titled...

From 2021. Nuevo post-punk steeped in a tastefully modest stride.  **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Often seen as a musical footnote, Hetch Hetchy were seemingly revered more for their lineage than what they committed to tape.  Frontwoman L...

From 2006.  I didn't intend to make this a twentieth anniversary post, but what do ya know? **Please do not reveal artist in comments!**...

I'm tempted to say that I've neglected the Icicle Works this whole time, yet it's hardly deliberate.  Like hundreds of other ma...

Playing a stripe of power pop that seems almost quaint by today's standards, City Lights , the pride and joy of Kagel Canyon, CA, ostens...

From 1989. One that sank almost immediately when released, but ultimately became a minor cult-classic in subsequent decades. I tacked on one...

Continuing my annual tradition of recapping a year's worth of choice blog posts into one handy compendium, here's the condensed vers...

From 2019.  Imagine if Best Coast awoke with a mild, dream-pop hangover and developed a taste for Psychocandy .   **Please do not reveal art...

I'll be posting a "best of the blog" mix for '25 before you know it.  In the meantime, here's an outfit I haven't ...

From 2002. This quartet purloined a thing or two from the Stones, but much like The Figgs and The Stairs, they engendered something tasteful...

Cynical as I may get with "modern music," there's still a helluva lot of stuff that gets lost in the shuffle. Often, if it was...

This might as well be a ninth evening of Chanukah.  The bonus material, exclusively, from the deluxe edition of a sleeper album from 1994 th...

...and on the eight day he rested...but I'll have to finish writing this piece first I suppose.  Green Thoughts brought me to the Smith...

Much in tandem with the Game Theory post from last night, over the years I've given you a lot by Guided by Voices , particularly in the ...

I think this is the last of it.  Beyond tonight's offering I think this is the last available un/under-released material I have to share...

Every year around this time I share one (or two) "lost" albums from the twentieth century that I find exemplary, relatively speaki...

Ok, put a ton of work into this one.  Assembling these singles collections are usually the most preparation intensive exercises I do all yea...

It wasn't until fairly recently that the prospect of dedicating a Chanukah post to Baby Lemonade occurred to me. I suppose it helped th...

You've probably already decided whether you're going to download this one based on the banner alone, so this spiel is likely to be b...