Wilfully Obscure

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...

It's night one of the Festival of Lights. Welcome to it, wherever you may be situated.  Mark Peters , ringleader for The Alarm once int...

...and you know what that means (or at least I'm assuming you do).  If anything else you'll be getting steady content for a week+ in...

Though I can't vouch for it's worth, this is surely a scarce reel, and possibly the only thing this Buffalo, NY contingent doled out...

A live album from an institution that some considered to be the cornerstone of '90s indie rock.  There are a few arguable omissions in t...

Emblematic of numerous bands of their era, Richmond, VA's Whirlybird weren't aggro enough to earn punk points (not many anyway), but...

This week it's four eps from four different decades.  Chow down! **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Got a load of these lazy boys via impressive split singles with No Knife and Jejune , circa the late '90s, but when I bit on their debu...

A banger from 2019.  **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

In '88 you might say this co-ed Ohio bunch, had considerable competition from another gaggle of Roses.  That said, even if Axl and Slash...

A debut from 1994.   **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear  

I saw this one pop up on Ebay a few times while doing genre searches and was more than intrigued by the cover. Low and behold I found a copy...

I'm dealing with heavy, flu-like side effects from the latest Covid immunization (funny how that works) so I may keep this one sort.  Th...

A reissue of a 1980 Canadian classic (eye of the beholder I suppose). **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

What's actually supposed to be a faint blue album sleeve came out more black and white than it should have.  And oh yeah...the music.  I...

A mostly complete compendium of this band's first three eps, released 1984-86.  **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear