Wilfully Obscure

Thought I'd share this fairly vintage compilation featuring ten bygone artists from a little town I paid a nice visit to last week. True...

I caught this New Jersey four-piece live in the act when they were opening for Braid and Jejune in 1999 (or was it 2000?). In fact, I still ...

Thought this would be an appropriate prelude to what I plan on sharing tomorrow, but I shan't give any more clues as to what that will e...

In theory, Record Store Day is nothing short of a phenomenal idea. Increase traffic to indie record shops (ever dwindling sadly) via in-sto...

What little has been spoken of Lincoln, NE's Gladstones is the band's connection to local contemporaries, For Against . Initially d...

Going on vacation folks. Now's a good time to catch up on some of my earlier posts, plus while you're at it, check out some of the s...

I've wanted to do a Phantom Planet post almost as long as I've been blogging, but since just about everything they've committed...

They're on the same label as the Sonics , they're decked out in mod/2 Tone attire, and their best song is on par with UB40? Kind of....

I'm afraid I don't have a smidgen of biographical info to dispense regarding this Albany, NY duo, but then again that's the case...

Everyone knows that so called "punk" in the '90s had become a safe, watered down commodity, so much so that mainstream acts (w...

This is a followup to my recent share of the Mad Turks From Istanbul's phenomenal debut LP, Café Istanbul . There was a three year layo...

My previous Pollyanna features seamed to to make a big impression on a lot of you, so I thought I'd up yet another out of print album f...

T'aint never heard of this vintage Connecticut quartet 'til I saw this ep sitting in a rack at the nearby Record Theatre , but that ...

Over the years Ebay has become an increasingly fertile destination for discovering bands of yesteryear, at least as far as I'm concerned...

Recently had a request for this long overlooked mid-90s artifact. I shared a further ep way back in '07 called Golden Grimes , that...

To this day I still argue that mix tapes trump mix cds, if only for one empirical fact - a blank cassette is 90 to 100 minutes long, while a...

Damn. Where has this album been my whole life? A couple months ago when I posted the Bad Timing Perth, Australia retrospective compilation,...

They say perception is reality, and nowhere was that notion more tragically applicable than with '80s glam rock/metal. Something tells m...

If you're one to partake in such bygone British punk-pop groups like Mega City Four, The Senseless Things, Midway Still, Snuff, and even...

This is kind of an obvious tie-in with the new remake of Clash of the Titans hitting the big screen this weekend, though the only thing thi...

This single was noted in the comments for my recent sharing of A Picture Made's ep, Past . Offering the same song, "God Loves a He...

Back in October of 2007 when this blog was in it's relative infancy, I shared one of my all time favorite albums that has yet to make it...

For better or worse, The New Creature's Rafter Tag will go down in the annals of Dayton, OH rock history merely as a footnote to a fa...

This is one of my favorite 7" inch compilations of the twentieth century, featuring an exclusive song from Zumpano (featuring A.C. (Ca...

Here's a fine slab of collegiate, indie guitar rock from a quartet of REM acolytes (though not tremendously derivative) hailing from poi...