Wilfully Obscure

I don't think I've featured anything by this long-running UK band to date.  Bit of a confusing release this, as it's not a best...

Not particularly Texan sounding, Standing Waves  were nonetheless denizens of Austin, and for a few years (mostly early-eighties) were resp...

Like a lot of bands that impressed me on college radio circa the early-'90s, I didn't immediately follow up on Positive Noise , simp...

A two CD collection of pretty much everything this New Zealand quartet committed to tape between 1979-80.  I wasn't able to scan the ent...

No, not that Chris Bailey (the deceased frontman for Australia's legendary Saints) rather another guy with ditto moniker, possibly with...

Primo post-punk stuff from 2007. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

I've had this 12" kicking around my "to-be-listened-to" pile of records for a considerable amount of times, and wouldn...

Disk two of a retrospective covering the second half of this band's career. Some of this material was made available on subsequent reiss...

Today I deliver an album entitled, Good Tidings, and it isn't even Christmas. Yo's second and third albums ( Charm World, Once in ...

This week it's a relaively well circulated boot of this band's nascent 1986 recordings.  The artist may well tantalize you, but as f...

In 2023 I introduced you to a new-to-me series of bootleg compilations gathering vintage and neglected punk/powerpop singles, predominantly ...

From 2016. This Orlando band's third and final. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!**

Well it's all sort of come full circle.  The very band that introduced me/you/us to this thing called post-punk (or Gothic, if you must)...

I didn't think it was quite that long ago when I shared my last Badbob wax, 1988's Now is Reaction , but apparently it's been ov...

From 2014.   **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

This might be the first instance (outside of Mystery Monday) where I've shared an album in it's entirety after previously reviewing ...

Where have The Maxxturs been my whole life?  The most factual answer to that query is likely 'defunct,' given this single was the o...

 ...but this was one of the most flawless albums to grace the racks in 2018.  A heady, enveloping mélange of dream pop and subtle electronic...

How about some no frills rock 'n roll?  This is one is situated far more to the middle of the dial than what I normally give you, and in...

My apologies for not getting any new music up last week.  Will try to remedy that soon.  As for M/M, this one is from a NJ indie trio circa ...

From 1985, and I still can't believe that it's not...them.  As they say, talent borrows, genius steals - and this is practically lik...

At some point in '87 a gaggle of Quebec-based (Montreal?) creative types got the notion to make some noise and they wound up putting fiv...

Ever come across a record/CD that despite having some remote appeal, you opted to pass on simply because you decided you didn't "ne...

A compilation from '93 surveying the first half of this punky French aggregation's career. **Please do not reveal artist in comments...

How about another compilation to follow up last week's Laughtour?  Only this one was considerably more aggravating in the respect that n...