Wilfully Obscure

The Animated , presumably from the environs of Los Angeles, kick their 1981 ep off with "Edith C. Sharp," a wondrous synthesis o...

Well, this entry has been a long time in coming.  Given the volume of material I've shared over the past four years some of you are ap...

Thought I'd share this until I get the chance to rip more vinyl.  Boy, I knew just what I was in for by a quick glance at the cover ar...

Here's one of my more recent after-the-fact-finds.  Twenty-five years late better than never.  Scotland's Two Helens strike me a...

The relentless volley of clangy chords and mid-fi propensity coursing through D.C.-based Dot Dash's premiere outing, Spark>Flame...

...And you won't have a single atom left, to call your own... It kinda went like this.  Back in 1990 me and my Father were on a road...

It's not often that I'm enamoured by a band that's so slavishly groomed for Top-40 playlists, but I'm going to make a big ...

By popular demand, I'm here to serve up another helping of vintage I-Rails recordings.   Heading on the backwards trajectory I set in...

For all intents and purposes, Belfast native Gary McKendry was Papa Sprain , a little known post-pretty-much-everything combo that were...

When I was compiling my write up for two Mommyheads reissues this spring (the retrospective Finest Specimens , and an expanded version ...

Where was this album back in the early '90s when I couldn't get my fill of the Senseless Things and Ned's?  Sure, I had heard ...

Considering that it's received a hair over one hundred downloads, I'm surprised no one left a comment regarding the Kinetics sing...

Back in the late '90s when the Four Dots compilation graced my cd player for what seemed like months, one of the unknown quantities o...

Issued in 1997, but not arriving on my radar until thirteen years after the fact, Hushpad's sophomore 45 (that would be this one) was...

Not a shred of info to be found online regarding  Bust , a D.C. area trio whose record came courtesy of the same imprint that brought us t...

I would really like to say that I was the one that assembled this collection... but afraid it was obtained it via filesharing many years a...

Tracking this down proved to be something of a challenge.  Then again, I suppose the same goes for just about any limited private pressing...

Not quite as chipper as their namesake might imply (check out the relatively brooding opener "Matter of Time") Atlanta's Hip...

I wouldn't be surprised if this one's been blogged already, but hey it's my rip, and so far as I can tell, woefully out of prin...

A reader kindly reminded me that in my 2009 entry for two Preston School of Industry eps, I tentatively planned to post the live bonus CD...

This is a follow up to a clever (at least my idea thereof) various artists mix I put together last month with artists sharing nothing more...

I picked this one up several years ago for a very nominal fee, gave it a spin or two and filed it away for a half decade or so, like I do ...

The roster of bands Mitch Easter produced at his fabled Drive-In Studios throughout the '80s is utterly staggering, and as far as I...

So, the band is from Brooklyn, their album was recorded in Belgium, and it was released on a Belgian label?  What gives?  Since Sloth  did...

Had a request for this last week, and it's one I'm happy to oblige.  The history of 415 Records goes beyond the five bands repres...