Wilfully Obscure

Happy New Year folks. Just taking a couple more days off, and will be back this weekend, perhaps with a best-of the decade album list. Tha...

It would be no exaggeration to say that I've been on a huge Jimmy Eat World kick lately (not that a lot of you would necessarily care, ...

I believe I had a request for this one awhile ago, spurred no doubt by my posting of Pollyanna's 1997 album, Hello Halo way back in th...

Once again I uncover a great, virtually unknown power-pop talent from an era I thought I'd reached the bottom of the barrel of a long ti...

Happy Holidays ! Update 12/28/09: I know a lot of you were looking forward to hearing these recordings, but it has been requested that I ...

It was recently brought to my attention that one of the links for the fan-curated Chapterhouse radio sessions/live compilation, Pearls and ...

Thought this might be of some interest to you out there. Single Bullet Theory were an AOR/power-pop band based out of Richmond, VA, who rel...

Everybody seems to be pretty tight-lipped about it, but not only are we at the close of another year, but a decade as well. Who can blame th...

Mitch Easter's sphere of influence, as noted in several previous entries on these pages, seemingly spanned an array of distant galaxies ...

When I picked this one up at a Canadian record show this summer, I assumed I had stumbled upon a complete and utter obscurity, due in no sma...

According to the back sleeve of this disk, The Wardells , Jim on guitar and vocals, Jeff on bass, and Rich rounding out the trio on drums,...

Hey folks. Remember when I posted that spiffy four-song, various artists 7" comp on Imaginary Records back in April? Sure you do. That...

Someone recently inquired if I had The Figgs contribution to an Undertones tribute CD they appeared on several years ago. I've decided...

Were you to buy the 'experts' critique of this record on Trouser Press , you'd probably go away with the notion that The Oysters...

So far as I know, this was the only record released by Boston's Band 19 (not counting a single that contained the first two tracks on t...

Judged purely by the number of downloads accrued, one of my biggest successes to date was an album titled The Mermaid's Parade , by an ...

Here it is, by popular demand, the third and final studio outing for Ontario's Killjoys . Their Starry and Gimme Five albums went over...

Last May I posted the better part of the discography of a Dublin, Ireland band called Power of Dreams . To my knowledge, they received next-...

Strangely enough, in the two and a half years since I began this blog, I somehow neglected sharing this jewel of an album from Sweden's ...

Given the sheer ubiquity of his production/engineering work throughout the 1980s, one is under the surreal impression that Mitch Easter clo...

Placentia, CA may have served as home base for Retriever , but just absorb a few moments from this 10" ep, and you'll likely come t...

At some point during 1993, during my stint as a college DJ, a new word entered my vernacular - " Slake ," and the album of the sam...

Ever hear of a place called Ipswich, England? Neither did I until I very belatedly caught wind of Perfect Daze , a late '80s combo that ...

Not much time for a write-up tonight, but a lot of you seemed to dig the Ramrods Jivin' n Twistin' ep I shared last month. I'm...

Even if Sebadoh weren't your cup 'o joe, this split might be worth investigating if you were at least able to appreciate SST-era Di...