Wilfully Obscure

It may not be a particularly fitting way to nightcap 2010 with an ep from a rather random mid-80s band, but I'll probably give you my ...

When I was doing my homework on this seemingly arcane Minneapolis export, I learned that Beyond Zebra not only had a discography beyond t...

We have a real mystery band on our hands here.   Piano-driven rock with the sway and verve of vintage Dramarama, at least as far as the a-...

I was pretty jazzed to stumble on this album a few months ago for a couple of reasons.  First, Jamie Hoover from power pop demigods the Sp...

Apparently the batch of Let's Active demos I posted on Christmas Eve was a big hit with a lot of people, so I thought I'd share th...

Call it Easter on Christmas, call it Big Plans for those of you who still have Afoot hold on one of the brightest guitar-pop beacons of...

A. Some Other December B. Once an Anchor Hear

The Hidden Charms were a Swedish band on a Spanish label who ultimately wound up sounding like a bunch of yanks.  And what yanks in parti...

Earlier this year when Pitchfork mentioned in a GBV related article that the cassette label Wild Animal Kingdom was releasing a tribute ...

Here's a dandy 7" ep from a not oft spoken of Cleveland-area band that went by the moniker of Drill Kitty .  If I recall, these g...

I picked this one up a good ten years or so ago in the vinyl basement of CD Cat in Toronto (the one on Queen Street W. that actually had a...

This recording will be of some interest to you if you count yourself as a fan of New Zealand's indie pop godsends   The Bats  (who by t...

The long standing misconception that American punk rock and it's subsequent offshoot genres only took hold in the vastest of metropol...

Would you believe that this single racked up a roughly $200 final auction price on Ebay?  Strangely enough, these two Phil Neal sides of d...

With a name as ubiquitous as this Arizona quintet's chosen moniker, a typical web query yields nothing of relevance, even when I inclu...

Here's a relatively unknown single from a Dutch trio with a serious jones for Mission of Burma.   Ostensibly, the only details to be ...

I haven't dedicated much space to Ottawa's Punchbuggy , save for a split single with Treble Charger , but that's about to chan...

Okay, this was completely random find.  A few months ago, I was searching for something on Ebay non- Polvo related, but one click led to ...

Thought this would be a fitting follow-up to the Garden Variety album I offered up yesterday. Harvest Theory were a quartet of former Cali ...

I've long resisted sharing this beauty, as it's already been made available for the taking on a couple other blogs, but no more.  I...

This is a follow up to my entry from about a month ago for Playground's Bent, Lost or Broken album.  A long put-to-pasture trio fro...

What little I've been able to glean about this jangly Fullerton, CA trio are a number of references indicating that Blue Trapeze were...

As ponderous as I find the lofty, orchestral-lite formula wunderkinds du jour The Arcade Fire have taken to the bank (also qualifying, but...

Personally, I don't think this Chapel Hill trio quite came into their own until their sophomore effort, Dead Men , which I featured on...

By request, here is Wool's entry to the '90s Your Choice Live album series.  This is a blatant and pandering follow-up to my Woo...