Wilfully Obscure

Here is the first in a series of Sub Pop two-fer 7” uploads. Kicking things off is Mark Arm’s ( of Mudhoney fame) one and only solo recordi...

The Bats and The Chills may have beaten them to the clock by several years, but for me, The Straitjacket Fits were the quintessence of what...

For every indie band that gets hitched with a major label and rockets to debaucheristic stardom, there are ten others that barely make a den...

Unlike a lot of Liquor Giants fans, I wasn't a holdover follower of lead-Giant Ward Dotson's more celebrated project, The Gun Club...

With the departure of Saints founder/vocalist/guitarist, Ed Kuepper , the band's fourth LP, The Monkey Puzzle, retreats even further awa...

Bearing static-ridden, lo-fi-ish punk rock, Columbus, Ohio's Gaunt infused a lively rawness into a genre that was (and for that matter ...

Back in 1993 when Chapel Hill, NC on-deck-hitters Archers of Loaf dropped their splendid debut, Icky Mettle, an acquaintance of mine describ...

I was posthumously introduced to a fantastic pure-pop guitar band from Baltimore named The Greenberry Woods at some point in the late '9...

This 1979 three-song nugget of gold proved to be Vancouver's, Pointed Sticks debut and finale for the much coveted Stiff Records. After...

For better or worse, my familiarity with the Payola$ essentially begins and ends with this EP issued on IRS in 1980. Introducing is conside...

If I recall correctly, I obtained this from a flyer of Lemonheads merchandise at some point in 1997. Not a proper studio record by any mean...

Long after the "classic" Records lineup that included John Wicks ( www. johnwicksandtherecords ) and Will Birch ( www.willbirch.c...

The Replacements live Inconcerated was a six-song promo only release sent to radio stations to coincide with the Mats' Don't Tell a...

A lot of naysayers claim that Dramarama are notorious for offering one or two stunning songs on any given album, and merely pad the remai...

If you were a Superchunk fan, not including the precious few that saw them on their 1994 Australian tour, you were pretty damn lucky to ge...

What can only be described as the "holy grail" of all Motion City Soundtrack recordings , the six-cut Kids For America ep has t...

Having been hailed as Canada's answer to The Replacements, Montreal's The Nils extolled an enormous amount of talent, but would neve...

Greetings and salutations ladies and gentlemen to Wilfully Obscure, my feeble attempt to channel the neglected corridors of my music collect...

What you critics said would never happen... This is going to be a lot of fun folks. Keep your eyes (and ears) peeled this summer!