Wilfully Obscure

A good many of you took to the Marshal Fields album I shared in January, and for good reason as far as I'm concerned, given their am...

Bearing just enough of an edge for my radar to hone in on, this synth-enhanced, Seattle quintet could easily flip the switch and hurtle in...

Unlike the Venus Bead's fairly well distributed long player, Incision , released in 1991, followed up quickly by the Black Aspirin ...

In a 1990 interview Harriet Wheeler and David Gavurin of the Sundays informed TV viewers that prior to signing a major label record deal t...

By request.  Piper Cub were a short-lived D.C. indie rock 'supergroup' starring Jim Spellman from Velocity Girl , Andrew Webster...

Throughout the better part of the '80s it would seem that Mitch Easter's every waking hour (outside of pursuing his meal-ticket, ...

Until I get the opportunity to rip some more wax, I thought I'd share another album that I downloaded a few years back from one of my ...

This past Tuesday I began the not-so-painful and not-so-arduous task of renewing a spate of dead links for  Babylon Pink, Belreve, Drip T...

There probably isn't a hell of a lot I can tell you about fenn , other than that they were actually Scottish, not Spanish.  Ensconced ...

As a quick caveat, this is not the same Mice from Cleveland featuring the talents of the great Bill Fox, rather a trio with origins in F...

Who the hell was Jeff, and furthermore why was anybody so friggin' stoked about him?   While I'm still coming to terms with that m...

I may not have been the biggest Wolfie fan in the world, but during their existence it sure felt like it at times.  With only a handful o...

This is a request and a follow-up to the Airlines tape I put up last month.  Unlike today, the nineties never struck me as an era of le...

Before moving onto another band I thought I'd follow up my Straitjacket Fits re-upload post from two nights ago with something I hav...

I was dazzled by the Starbean track "No Earthly Means of Transportation," that commences this double 45 compilation when I firs...

There's not a plethora of info to be had on Deep 6 , a New York City trio who had an album on Coyote Records the same year another tri...

Per the thoughtful blurb on the back cover, 1993 gave rise to some 4000 independent singles in the US alone (had no idea anyone was keepin...

I learned a couple of interesting tidbits when I was doing my homework on this long defunct Costa Mesa, CA conglomerate.  First, Naked Soul ...

Hard to believe that with roughly 1200 features under my belt this is only the second flexi-disk I've shared to date.  For such a fee...

Bearing a moniker like The Bounce and coupling that with a colorful, freewheeling record sleeve, you would naturally expect this female f...

I had a request for this on the heels of White Animals ' self-titled album which I shared a couple months back.  Popular local favori...

I had heard/read of Liverpool's Ellery Bop for several years prior to finding this ep fairly recently.  Good lot these boys turned ou...

Thanks to the boffo $1 record racks at Last Vestige Records in Albany, NY, I recently made my acquaintance with Tirez Tirez , the brainch...

I liked Uncle Green's 15 Dryden album, which I shared a couple years back, but I love this single.  "Holes" is chime-po...

For me, a new Motion City Soundtrack album isn't just a collection of new songs from Minneapolis' "fab-five," it's ...