Wilfully Obscure

Until I get the opportunity to rip some more vinyl (which should be very soon) I thought I'd share another album I obtained from the l...

The Hangs Ups were a '90s indie pop troupe from Minneapolis, who bore a sound resembling The Gigolo Aunts a whole lot more than celebr...

Here’s another pleasant surprise from the FYE 25 cent bin (r.i.p.). The Piersons were a highly competent three-piece rock and roll set fr...

If Brooklyn, NY isn’t ground zero for upstart indie bands these days, then I’ve got a certain bridge to sell you. Unlike the bulk of their ...

Though it was a pure coincidence, just as this  Bomb Bassets wax was hitting shelves (at least a few shelves anyway), I had just famili...

Earlier this month I shared an LP from a long-defunct L.A. band called The Mutts .  That full length, Stinko's Ranch was preceded by ...

Despite their namesake, there's nary a cadence to be encountered on this Florida by way of Atlanta, GA conglomerate's two albums...

The $17 I paid for this was worth it for the leadoff song alone.  The irresistible "Desperate Measures" strikes a balance betwee...

Someone once floated the notion that Vancouver's Cinnamon were Canada's answer to Redd Kross...but was that comparison valid?  Gu...

For roughly fifteen years now, I've been charting, or more literally, enjoying the steady musical output put forth by one Adam Marslan...

Any Guided By Voices devotee, even of the casual variety, will attest that the core nuclei of Dayton, OH's boys done good consisted o...

In the annals of North Carolina indie rock histroy, circa the 1990s, much has been discussed about such Tar Heel luminaries as Superchunk,...

Here's an after-dinner mint of sorts to the Horace Pinker  cd I shared yesterday.  Loud Ugly Pop is a three-band compilation featurin...

My fixation for revisiting arcane, mid-90s punk continues, with the addition of the debut platter from Tempe, AZ's Horace Pinker .  Tak...

Quite simply, Reno, Nevada's Zoinks! were one of my top-ten favorite bands of the '90s.  An ace popcore trio, Zoinks! were levele...

Thought this would be an appropriate follow-up to my Unherd post from last night.  The little spoken of Tunstin Gat consisted of three h...

Ok, time to kick into a little punk rock...er, I mean hardcore...or perhaps old school-emocore might be a better categorization.  Nah.  Ho...

Here's a fairly scarce Mudhoney promo CD dished out to those lucky folks in the alt-radio biz back in the heyday of the Northwest gru...

Here's a sparkling lil' gem I became acquainted with just a few months ago, despite it having been floating around for a good eight...

Posts are going to be very sporadic over the next few days, but will try to add some new links to the blogroll later tonight to keep you ent...

By now everyone and their landscaper are aware that Pavement have reunited for some select tour dates (and a fat wad of bills I might add) ...

Nostalgia is a damn fine thing, even the short-term variety. Seems like only a few months ago that Buffalo's Palomar Sky Survey were sl...

With a band name that acknowledges a concept as lofty as our very species, you might expect a grandiose gesture or two from the Santa Cruz b...

To make the great American pop album, you have to be the great American pop band. Boston's Cavedogs were just that, and outside of a ...

The Edsel Auctioneer were one of a zillion bands that made a not-so-hot first impression on me during the '90s, but having the pure dum...