Wilfully Obscure

If a picture is worth your proverbial thousand words, then this album sleeve was worth about 100 to me...pennies that is. Intrigued by the g...

In response to my Aenone post a little while back, someone requested some tuneage from Nyack , essentially Aenone rechristened with a new m...

For a time in the mid-90s, Providence, RI's Small Factory were arguably the flagship band for the burgeoning "twee" indie m...

I procured this 15 track collection of GBV rarities a few years ago On Soulseek , but I know nothing of it's origins. Not even listed a...

This entry into my singles series is a very beltated follow-up of sorts to my post last year of Baby Lemonade's Wonderful 10" ep....

The eight-song mini-album Strange Alliance was the world's (or at least the US') introduction to Tommy Keene (formally of the D.C....

When Sonic Youth dove headfirst into the big leagues with their 1990 Goo album, not only did it accord the band with a bigger (albeit somew...

Believe it or not, I'm just as much a Johnny come lately as anyone. Maybe even more so. Were it not for a retrospective on Canadian musi...

While I have yet to post any bona fide Wynona Riders music, a few months ago I shared a fabolous slab of one of lead singer Skip's oth...

French were a stunning NYC quartet who bridged the not-so-great-divide between scrumptious power-pop and good ol' fashioned indie rock....

Along with such contemporaries as Texas Is the Reason, Christie Front Drive, and The Promise Ring, m.i.j. were part of the last wave of the...

Per the request of a couple folks who were enthusiastic about my Ridel High 7" post a few weeks ago, I'm making good on my offer. ...

They were new. They were grand. They were The New Grand . A four piece outfit who shipped out of London, Ontario in the mid-90s, the New Gra...

Were it not for the fact that Cactus World News regained the rights to their catalog, and thus re-released their debut, Urban Beaches , an...

Fulfilling a request via a response to my recent Slowchange Madagascar post. Here are 18 whacked-out North Carolina bands circa the mid-90s...

Glass Eye were part and parcel of what is loosely referred to as the "New Sincerity" mini movement of collegiate rock bands haili...

Recently had a request for this. To get caught up to speed on Smile , mosey on over to a post from late last year. Mild mannered Southern-C...

Equipped with a strange moniker, North Carolina's short-lived Slowchange Madagascar were fittingly off the beaten path, but alluring no...

I've long been an admirer of an Iowa band named Head Candy , who released but one album, 1991's brilliant, power chord melee, Starca...

TSAR’s bitchin’ self-titled debut on Hollywood Records rocked my MONOstereo in a big way when it materialized in 2000. Like many before an...

While many fans of The Replacements savor Paul Westerburg's post-Mats solo material, no one is in denial over the contrasts between th...

When I picked up a cassette album by The Figgs , Ginger, in 1992, I never would have guessed they'd still be an active band some 16 yea...

A fixture in the much-lauded Athens, GA scene during the ‘80s, Love Tractor married some of the quirkier tendencies of the 'new south...

Many of you old timers on here remember Flipside fanzine, a content-heavy punk/alt-rock rag that crammed more reviews and articles into one...

Band you never heard of before covers four punk/post-punk classics. Enjoy (or not). 01. Public Image (PIL) 02. 12XU (Wire) 03. I Wanna ...