Wilfully Obscure

Minneapolis' Man Sized Action were one of a handful of bands taken under the wing of Reflex Records, Husker Du's in-house record ...

This is one of the scarcer Painted Willie recordings out there, which by the way didn't come out on SST Records.  Typically a fun, ar...

This past January I shared the first ep by the long defunct (and for that matter completely unheralded outside of their native Oz) Tall T...

Ex- Mercyland visionary David Barbe's meal ticket came calling in the early '90s when he was tapped by Bob Mould to become one t...

Here's a 45 I obtained from a dollar bin a few years ago but didn't give a spin until this week.  For shame, because I had been de...

To follow up my Pedaljets entry from my last night, I checked the link to my 2007 post of this album, and sure enough it hadn't seen ...

Before venturing further, please allow me to indulge with a rhetorical question.  What band wouldn't want to have a song in their re...

An appropriately monikered outfit if there ever was one, these Buffalo, NY area denizens pitched an array of baited hooks into the glisten...

Hard to believe, but it's taken me over a year to get around to following up my initial Viola Peacock entry from last summer .  At th...

You might be compelled to download this disk for the very same reason I bought it - the rather trippy and bodacious album jacket.  If it...

Picked this up a few years ago for the sleeve.  Nice cardboard stock paper too, but all packaging concerns, Blanket was a low profile Sea...

Monkey Rhythm were one of many decent 415 Records acts that failed to make the migration to the label's "merger" with Colum...

I was damn near-blown away with Troubled Hubble's 2005 parting shot, Making Beds in a Burning House , a slightly nerdy stab at otherw...

I remember virtually disregarding this when it came out back in 1993.   Too samey and derivative I thought.   Pulled it out again a few ye...

I can think of few bands out there, past or present, who can pack as much of a head-spinning wallop into two minutes (or less) than Baltim...

Pop Art may not have fit like a glove (or frankly, fit at all) with their hometown's burgeoning Paisley Underground fracas during the...

I really don't know what my excuse was for not paying attention to The Black Watch any earlier than two years ago.  Sure, they alr...

The fact that an ingenious, post-punk Boston act from the early '80s happened to arrive immediately on the heels of a far more seminal...

The debut platter from this Champaign, IL four-piece conjures up what might have resulted if the Feelies or Popealopes had skewed more tow...

The Mayflies have always been a back burner band for me, if only for the fact that I'm preoccupied with so many more artists.  Yet an...

Quite simply, this is a band that I wish had stuck around for another album or two, or at the very least done a reunion tour.  Heck, come ...

Taking a break.  Check back Monday.  Keep yourselves amused til then.

It goes without saying that the business model of the brick and mortar record/cd store has been trounced by a myriad of digital outlets wh...

In reference to the title, more like picture perfect pop!  Not unlike jangly Anglophiles the Ocean Blue, who took a chip off the ol' C...

Ok, this will be my last San Diego-related entry for awhile, but hopefully not forever.  I fulfilled a request for an Olivelawn single b...