Wilfully Obscure

What appear to be the complete studio recordings of a punky UK power-pop proposition from the late '70s.   **Please do not reveal artist...

While we're on the subject of psych pop/rock I thought this would piggyback nicely with yesterday's Shallow Reign entry. The Seeing ...

You'd think there would be more mentions of this long begotten Dallas, TX artifact, if only due to the fact that bands of Shallow Reign...

An indie rock touchstone from 1996. Sorry I wasn't able to deliver much in the way of new music to you last week.  Will try to remedy th...

A Don Fleming production from 2000. From the States, but the band's Elvis Costello-isms and Brit-pop angularities belie even sassier und...

A Canadian indie band that, surprise, reminds me a hell of a lot of other Can-indie bands, especially those populating the roster of Murder ...

From 2002. The bonus disk of a deluxe edition reissue housing b-sides, demos and even a Peel session.  **Please do not reveal artist in comm...

Here's a bunch of Arkon-ites that didn't have a damn thing in common with DEVO other than locale.  Said to have contained ex-Waitres...

From 2019.  Probably the closest I've come to offering bona fide power pop on Mystery Mondays in a long time. **Please do not reveal art...

Ever wonder what became of Ivan Julian after the Voidoids dissolved?  Yeah, me neither...but I found out anyway.  With Julian running the ...

Certainly a parody of the then-current UK outfit Eugenius (ex-Vaselines), Huegneius was a one-off byproduct of the Pooh Sticks Hue Williams...

Time for four eps, although one is bordering on a mini album, and another is a two song sampler, of sorts.   **Please do not reveal artists ...

This isn't our first time around the block with Rude Buddha , a co-ed Virginia combo who gave us a 1985 ep, Blister My Paint , I featur...

Maybe not the most critical juncture of their career, this trio's sixth album indulged in the kind of gaudily-processed guitar stukas th...

Here's one that I don't have a very solid recollection at all of picking up, but given the sleeve's art-deco informed tableau I ...

From 2002. I don't delve into Americana/No Depression type of stuff, but every once in awhile this one really scratches the itch. **Plea...

This coed five-some hailed from Montreal, yet could easily pass for a myriad of south of the border hopefuls. More collegiate indie guitar-p...

A left curve from 1983 that I'm sure some of their initial fanbase wasn't quick to forgive them for. **Please do not reveal artist i...

This week I ventured down a rabbit hole I never saw coming, that was until I tuned into an episode of a favorite podcast of mine.  The hole...

From 1988. Not necessarily their apex, but this still makes for an apt introduction.  **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Bazooka Joe were a Baltimore contingent that never really tried to make a break for the mainstream, and I like to think the droney sonic ap...

Folks, you're not seeing the traditional "question mark" pic due to chronic and immensely vexing technological snafus, but fea...

I've had this kicking around for the better part of 20 years and have been chronically procrastinating posting it for no particular reas...

Originally a cassette-only release from 1990, reissued 30 years later, from an echo-ridden, indie guitar band that oddly enough found favor ...

It's been another week where I simply lost track and didn't have much prepared for you, but as for the tape depicted to the left I...