Wilfully Obscure

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

It's a pretty shocking coincidence that Someone & The Somebodies had the inclination to cover "Workin' in a Coal Mine"...

This band isn't especially renown for their b-sides, but that didn't stop them from curating a presentable compilation of them in 20...

So, I didn't exactly shower you with content this week, but since I had this ready to go I figured, why not?  I've got a buddy that...

This is one of about a half dozen singles pumped out by León Spain's, The Crepitos , who managed to bring one studio LP into the world c...

From 2009.  Threw in a couple of extra tidbits, including a little something for you Greg Dulli fans in the audience.  **Please do not revea...

I just can't escape the specter of 1987.  I've already posted two more titles from that year in recent weeks, but it's more coin...

The 1988 swan song from one of the era's most consistent pop auteurs.   **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Following up my post from last night, here's another salvo from '87.  When I belatedly encountered  Claude Pāte on the Iowa Compila...

If not an outright cold case, Minneapolis' Roy G Biv didn't exactly leave behind a proverbial trail of crumbs with the exception of...

"Field recordings" from a short-lived, UK post-punk proposition circa 1979-81, who never realized their loftier ambitions. **Pleas...

Last year you came for God's Eye's "Back Again" 45, not realizing it was actually dessert for their main course, Love...

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...