Wilfully Obscure

Well, it looks like you'll have to wait another day for me to get off my lazy duff and compile my best-ofs album list for 2011.  In th...

Had a very recent request for this one.  The Ruggedy Annes were a fearsome, femme four-piece from Winnipeg, Manitoba whose slash and burn...

This is the fourth and final leg in our tour of I-Rails cassette albums, with the last stop culminating with Valentino Says, which is actu...

It only took me about half a decade to get around to dedicating an entry to Creeper Lagoon , so I thought I'd make it count.  For what...

Happy Chanukah, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year.  Now that I've covered all the bases, time to present you with my end of year, BF...

Two months ago I introduced you to Bellingham, WA's Five Gears in Reverse , a staggeringly talented guitar pop aggregation that neithe...

Considering that one of the most ardent fans of this blog was nice enough to send me not one, not two, but FIVE Tall Tales & True 12...

In doing my research on Albuquerque's assumably long put to pasture Bring Back Dad , I was reminded that I already covered them, via t...

It's a wonder I didn't latch onto Half String when they were still going in the '90s, but then again a lot of stuff was vying...

Retro as this little ol' blog may be, I'm still wont to inform ya'll of worthy new releases coming down the pike, and late this...

It would probably be smart to eliminate any confusion by mentioning up front that this is not the same 100 Flowers that were the spinoff ...

Of all the '90s Portland, OR bands that never quite "made it" - Heatmiser, Pond, Hazel, Skiploader, and Crackerbash, I alwa...

Last week I was inspired by the request of another blogger to rip Breaking Circus' 1985 ep The Very Long Fuse to the lossless FLAC f...

Right out of  11's starting gate, "Let the Games Begin" exudes the type of warm syncopation and dexterous, instrumental rec...

Australia's Marnies didn't leave much of a discography, or moreover a footprint.  That's a shame, because back in the late ...

Is it just me or does the jacket of this disk conjure up a pack of cigarettes?  Just checking.  Attachments were a female fronted six-p...

Billy James was no solo act, rather a co-ed four piece from Athens, GA.  Produced by REM's Mike Mills, Sixes and Sevens is a jangly ...

The cry went out roughly a week ago when one of our fellow music bloggers requested some difficult-ish to locate vinyl from a handful of ...

I thought I'd use the review I did for  Big Takeover magazine (I wanna say in 2002/03) as my write up for Remedy Session's lone ...

I picked this bad boy up during my Maximum Rock n Roll days circa the mid-90s.  I have no significant background info to offer on Pivot ,...

Given my affinity for half of the bands occupying this wax ( Edsel and Trusty ) it's a wonder I didn't share this comp ep ages ag...

It was almost two years ago that I did an entry on Defenestration's proper full length, Dali Does Windows , so I suppose it's ab...

Though I've never broached the topic of them on these pages, Champaign, IL's Wolfie were a perennial favorite of mine circa the l...

Recently had a request for Brilliant Orange which I'm more than happy to fulfill.   The work of a Vancouverite quartet, the Happy Man...

This artifact isn't exactly in keeping with the theme of Thanksgiving...but what are you gonna do about it?   From the looks of their ...