Wilfully Obscure

Just a heads up.  I'm taking a few days off and won't be posting again until early next week. To amuse yourselves, head over here ...

I was clued into The Misstakes by virtue of comparisons made between them and hometown contemporaries Fools Face.  Being the F/F aficiona...

I'm not sure if I "get" what The Balancing Act were all about, or even if I was meant to get them.  At any rate, I'm sha...

I  have two discs of compactness to offer you today, courtesy of In One , whose " Sour Yellow State " 45 I made available just a...

When the nine songs comprising this reissue were being tracked in the early '90s, I prided myself with being aware of virtually every ...

In past years I've extolled on all things Graig Markel - a Seattle singer/songwriter, distortion pedal configurationist, and the form...

I really can't claim to harbor a dedicated interest to any of the participants on this concise 7" compilation, but being the obsc...

Theme split single, the rather obvious motif being a five letter moniker starting with "E," and ending in "y."  I'...

By the middle and end of the '80s there were oodles of "modern rock" bands who were commercially viable enough to warrant a ...

I think I'll tide you over with this juicy nugget until I have the opportunity to digitize more vinyl and such.  This is a live-to-air...

The Fugue presumably resided in the Ann Arbor, MI area, though "presumably" is the key word given the utter dearth of details o...

Hailing from upstate New York's fabled Western tier, you might say In One were dream-pop proteges who were just along for the Ride (...

I believe the year was 1991 (or was it 1990?) when My Bloody Valentine, Lush, and Slowdive aligned themselves into the three-pronged gatew...

This dandy ep was the product of a Long Beach, CA duo consisting of Bob Waller and Rafe Atkinson .  Desperate Hours exuded a colorful an...

Aside from a pair of split singles and some compilation tracks, this ep, so far as I can tell is the only other document of this stellar ...

My buddy over at Punk Archives blog notified me last week that he had finally come into possession of one of his holy grails, the Pink Li...

Sometimes twangy, sometimes sneering with punky bravado, The Contras never take themselves too seriously, yet throughout Ciphers in the...

When Bob Mould disbanded Husker Du in 1988, he both branched out and mellowed out.  About ten years later, another power-trio that was far...

A few weeks ago, a little birdy was kind enough to tip me off on Petey , an upstart Raleigh, NC trio whose clangy chords and feeble yet en...

Three boys from Edinburgh, Scotland dole out this rousing slice of funk-upped dance pop, recalling the work of contemporaries APB and Gang...

Some Massachusetts action for you on this stormy Monday night, courtesy of the co-ed, female fronted Demilos , a quartet that's manage...

For whatever the reason, I've been hoarding this one for a rainy day, and now that a thoroughly rainy day is upon us, here goes.  Ther...

A shame this jewel didn't appear on my radar 23 years ago when it was initially issued, but I still have the rest of my life, right?  ...

This strikingly clean-cut Ocean State quartet proved to be more left of center than I expected - and all the better.  Parallel 5th's s...

The fittingly titled parting shot for Nashville mainstays the White Animals , didn't find them going out on a crescendo, but by the mi...