Wilfully Obscure

In the waning hours of Halloween 2010, I thought it would be fitting to share this curious 45 (though technically only the sleeve art and ...

Power pop!  Now this was a worthwhile purchase.  Came across  Video Games  on Ebay a few months back and snatched it up sound unheard, ins...

Though I have little to no background info on the Davis, CA based Playground , this album is nonetheless a more than noteworthy footnote i...

With a roster boasting the alumni of such cult-favorite post-hardcore troupes as Texas is the Reason and Rival Schools , Atlantic/Pacific ...

Florida's  Recess Theory harken back to an era, not so long ago, when emo was still a basement/VFW hall movement, and moreover, far l...

With an amped-out synthesis of punk, grunge, and some tasteful alt-metal maneuvers, Wool struck an immediate and eminently powerful blow...

Like many of their Seattle brethren, The Lemons didn't quite reap the riches of the Emerald City's post-grunge sweepstakes nearly...

Dare I say this is the most conspicuously tasteless single I've shared to date?  Admittedly, the title track to this three song ep un...

Not sure what you're going to make of this one, but thought it was worth a shot.  Hatched in the Pittsburgh punk scene in the early ...

To most people, the name Rusty Willoughby will probably yield nothing more than a big fat question mark above his/her head, and at this po...

I made the foolish mistake of selling the CD incarnation of this album several years ago on Ebay (drawing a nice profit though), and have ...

I guess you don't need me to inform you that this autumn has been a banner season for Guided By Voices fans, with the "classic...

Let's see,  84 Nash called Columbus, OH their stomping ground, a city not far removed from Dayton.  In addition to that, two of the gr...

There was no dearth of noisy, indie guitar-rawk talent sprouting up throughout the '90s and New York's Giant Mums were another fi...

Lifeboat were a Boston based four-piece who inflected their relatively unique strain of power pop with a healthy dollop of jangly guitar ...

Heeeeeeeeeres Donnie!  The back of the album jacket credits The High and the Mighty to Donnie and The Cruisers , which leads me to sp...

This was a nice thrift store find, even though I had minimal firsthand knowledge of this Aussie trio.  The rooArt logo on the CD tray was ...

The Outskirts were a Thatcher-era UK quartet who had moderate success with a 1981 single called "Blue Line," which was later fa...

We're all painfully aware that "there's nothing new under the sun."  Food is a prime example of this adage, though while t...

It almost went against my better judgement to share this single, not so much out of concern about getting slapped on the wrist by the RIAA ...

Thanks go out to Duncan who sent me the files for this long forgotten ep.  So forgotten in fact that I hadn't given this British trio a...

‘80s skinny-tie synth-rock from Buffalo, NY equipped with a singer ( Bill Schuh ) that occasionally recalls Cy Curnin of the Fixx, though ...

Originating in the mid-80s, a celebrated but little known California trio dubbed The Nashville Ramblers turned more than a few heads with ...

Okay, so I've been throwing a lot of no-names at you lately, some of which I've had mixed opinions about myself.  I figure it...