Wilfully Obscure

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...

From 1992. Third and final album from this UK to NYC transplant. Notably elongated song-lengths, not to mention something of an acquired tas...

Here's another one I barely recall putting in my shopping cart, ostensibly just a few years ago.  The three-piece Safe as Houses , beari...

So, what on Earth compelled my blind purchase of an album with a cringy, Red Hot Chili Peppers-esque title such as this?  Best I can remembe...

I know I didn't give you much last weeks folks, but I'll try to compensate later on today. For now, here's a corker from 2022.  ...

God knows I've probably passed up on buying Barking Tribe's 1991 LP, Serpent Go Home, from many a cut-out and bargain bin over the...

One of 2015's best.  Sumptuous nodes of jangle and power-pop filtered through an updated, Slumberland Records-esque delivery system.  Bi...

From 2000.   **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear  

I don't know much about The Bishops' hometown of Alton, IL, but if in fact they were the biggest success story from the locale (not...

Even if Scarce frontman, Chick Graning , hadn't suffered an amnesia-inducing brain hemorrhage in 1995 (running right into the Stateside...

From 1996.  Just about the best indie rock album you didn't know existed. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

This is the first cold case I've brought up in awhile, and the combo this concerns doesn't help matters by omitting their moniker fr...

Disk one of a two-CD reissue of this UK bands scant '80s discography, who in their original incarnation only managed a single and an EP....

I often ponder the sizable slate of UK rock acts that took their home country by storm, yet nary made a dent Stateside.  The rock and roll d...