Wilfully Obscure

Hiya folks. I'm in the midst of some serious hard drive surgery and may not post again until early next week. I'll try to compensate...

Like many indie-rawk bands hailing from Portland, Oregon during the 1990s, Crackerbash , along with such hometown brethren as Hazel, Heatmis...

Olympia' Washington's Heavens to Betsy will always be remembered as the band Corin Tucker had her riot grrrl antecedents in prior ...

Before scoring soundtracks (i.e. I Heart Huckabees ), enjoying a coveted spot in the short-lived, mid-90s pop supergroup The Grays, not to m...

Detroit's ingenious Junk Monkeys were under everyone's noses (or more precisely in used bargain CD and tape bins, he he) during the ...

Yet another one from the 'wish I'd been there' chronicles. Hardly known as a musical breeding ground, Albany, NY's Verge , m...

I was damn-near surprised to see that this gem of an album never caught the watchful eye of some of the kingpin power-pop blogs out there. S...

To some people, Nice Strong Arm were just another noisy post-punk band on Homestead Records. My first encounter with them came courtesy of c...

Were the Meices given the whole "Behind the Music" treatment, something tells me they'd have a pretty interesting story to...

From Brisbane Australia they came, and profile-wise their audience sadly didn't reach much further than Oz. In the mid-to-late 1980s, Th...

The Blases lone, eponymous album is the stuff this blog was born for. Not so much a classic, rather a classic example of an album lost to th...

Over the years, many a power pop-centric music scribe/audiophile has espoused the "no-home-should-be-without-one" notion regarding...

If you know anything at all about Tucson, Arizona's Sand Rubies, you're probably aware that they evolved from a group called the Sid...

An album as thoroughly excellent as the Hummingbirds loveBUZZ should not warrant a post on a blog dedicated to lost and overlooked records. ...

The Toronto based Numbers were a straight-up power pop quartet that released their one and only album, Add Up at the crest of that genre’s ...

Victoria, BC's Papillomas were just one of scores of hot indie bands emanating from the Canadian border throughout the '90s, however...

...or some shit like that, at least that's what they tell me anyway. I have invested well over $1000, if not closer to two-grand in Bob...

Dublin's Rollerskate Skinny surely rank as one of the most artistically unaffected bands of the 1990s (or for that matter any decade) ...

Although Who Do You Want It to Be? was released well into the digital age (1989 to be exact) Datura Seed's lone album was for whatever...

The extent to which L.A. hardcore punk legends The Germs have been revered, eulogized, and storied is nothing short of bewildering. Perhaps...

I'm tempted to say that Seattle's sorely overlooked Alcohol Funnycar were a once-in-a-lifetime discovery, but they weren't. Mo...

Hi folks. I'm going out of town for a week or so, which means no updates until the end of the month. Now's a good time to catch up...

In a perfect world, airline food would be catered by Red Lobster, every city would have an Amoeba Records store, and Swervedriver would re...

From my perspective, it’s logical of me to deem that Jupiter were Sydney, Australia’s answer to dream-pop. Not only is the music a dead giv...

I stumbled across this a few years ago on a file trading site and have not re-encoded or altered anything. The Blake Babies really need no i...