Wilfully Obscure

Another great, albeit posthumous find.  Gotta love the dollar bins folks.  My initial assumption was that Storch was a debut release, but...

Don't have much time for a write-up tonight, but this one was requested on the heals of my share of a vintage Motocaster single from...

It wasn't until a few weeks ago that I became acquainted with this Melbourne, Aussie lot - some three full decades after the fact.  Ta...

One of my readers tipped me off about an upcoming one-off reunion gig involving one of the more oft mentioned subjects of these pages, Det...

The Animals at Night are hardly a name brand commodity, but for those of you who frequent these pages you might be familiar with the group...

The Stevens may be a fresh faced export from Melbourne, Australia, but when listing to this disk, I can't help but conjure up the tr...

Lacking a shred of web presence, the most I can tell you is that The Sonnets cut these half-a-dozen tracks at Dancing Dog Studios in Oakl...

Though they were never an overwhelming favorite of mine, I enjoyed Love Battery's body of work for Sub Pop, especially 1993's Far...

Ostensibly named after a device for dispensing tape to bandage athletic injuries, this Philly three-piece bear a sophisticated sonic wallo...

First things first - try to get past the rather cheesy makeshift album sleeve to your right that my buddy Oxy slapped together.  In all sin...

Word went out yesterday from Saint Marie Records HQ that we've been given the go-ahead to host Drowner's video for "Written,...

If I'm not mistaken, Positive Force Records was a label owned and operated by Kevin Seconds (of 7 Seconds ).  The Rockford, IL-based ...

For the three or four of you reading this who have any firsthand familiarity with Bring Home the Lobsters , I'd politely suggest you n...

Had I the option to document music online in the early '90s, or more accurately given the era, were I to have published a fanzine, Mel...

Roughly ten years ago I belatedly discovered an uber-obscure '80s Brit punk act, Perfect Daze , by virtue of an anthology type retrosp...

I guess you can't blame me for approaching a pop-punk album with a certain amount of trepidation, what with so many clones, reruns, an...

What would possess a promising, upstart rock band, circa the early '90s who happened to hail from the indie hotbed of North Carolina t...

A theory on blondes you say?  Can't help you there, but I've got one on redheads.  We'll save that for another time perhaps.  ...

I'm a sucker for sleeve art, and this disk promised to be a treat as soon as I laid eyes on it.  Upon closer inspection, the back cove...

It was the early '90s when I happened upon Salem 66's Frequency and Urgency album in a dollar cassette rack at Camelot Records....

Late on Sunday I suffered a computer emergency which put me out of commission for a few days.  Luckily, no data was lost, but I just got up ...

A lot has been made of the fabled "new south sound," both on these pages and elsewhere.  I'm generally speaking of the often...

Well, I'm not exactly going to be dedicating a book to this one, as vital stats are minimal at best.  I picked up this trio's tape...

The following chunk of low-brow, riff-pop is brought to you by ex- Love Child guy Will Baum , who from what little I've been able to ...

For those of you squeamish about vinyl surface noise, this sucker's gonna hurt.  There are more snaps and pops on these two tracks than ...