Wilfully Obscure

Technically this is the 33rd installment of my Splitting the Difference split 45 series, but truth be told, the emphasis here is going to be...

I recently became aware that the link for man dingo's ifive album, which I posted just under a year ago, has apparently expired or som...

This October saw the release of an exhaustive Close Lobsters singles compilation Forever Until Victory , on the British Fire Records labe...

Yet another mystery band, seemingly immune to the vast pervasiveness known as the World Wide Web (or more precisely, search engines). Not a ...

Just discovered this one very recently, and sad to say don't own an original. Hailing from Cambridge, England, The Dazzlers may not hav...

Before William E. Beckett got his neuvo pop-punk on with flash in the pans The Academy Is... (formally The Academy ) there was Remember Ma...

Neither of these Bay Area denizens from the past decade are rookies to Wilfully Obscure, but if they're new to you, here's an excell...

Here's another (semi)worthy entry to add to the ever-heaping no-name pile. Let's see - a Berkeley, CA post-punk trio who go by silly...

Well, here it is, the Last missing piece of the Glide puzzle that some of you have been clamoring for - and for good reason I might add. T...

By request, here's the second album from one of Canada's best exports of the '90s, The Killjoys . Gimme Five was forged in a ne...

Following up my Millions post from a couple days ago, is yet another vintage entry from the not-so-thriving hotbed of Lincoln, NE. Charlie ...

I can't believe I let this one slip by on the blog for all these years. Signed to the same tiny Polygram subsidiary Chris Mars was on ba...

Taking a few days off. Try not to have too much fun without me. Will be back early next week.

Way back when I started this blog, I enlightened (or in some cases, simply reminded) you, of Austin, TX's long-departed Reivers , formal...

Did the word 'ramrod' not have a have a homosexual connotation in 1986 or are these the coolest teen boys in all of history? (from F...

The Dangtrippers were an excellent troupe of jangle merchants who called Iowa City home during their mid-80s to early '90s run. Hoverin...

It's a wonder I didn't hear about this band ages ago when they were still making records. The Terrible Parade were a Cleveland four...

To know '90s power pop is to know Big Deal Records , a New York label that was the preeminent propagator of such burgeoning acts as The ...

While I'm far from an authority on The Flamin' Groovies , I do have an appreciation for them, so when I saw this rather miscellaneou...

Here's the third, and perhaps last record I will ever have the pleasure of sharing by one of the finest bands to ever call Albuquerque, ...

You are just a few clicks of the mouse away from hearing two of the best 1990s punk bands that in all likelihood never made it onto your rad...

I guess I'll introduce this by noting that on the back sleeve of Million Dollar Ring, Lotus STP are sitting in front of a wall with a ...

To a lot of you, this compilation may not come as much of a revelation to you. Granted, there are some household names here - Gang of Four ,...

Someone mentioned the band UFOFU in response to my Study of the Lifeless post from last week. They didn't know it at the time, but bro...

I name-dropped these guys in my Ludicrous Lollipops post last night. The Senseless Things were more than a little in the same vein as the L...