Wilfully Obscure

2013 is within spitting distance, and while I plan on offering a couple of best-of lists for this years releases/reissues, (most likely to...

Thought this would be an appropriate follow-up to my recent Sea Hags entry, considering The Hangmen's trajectory was relatively simi...

Oh boy.  A few nights ago I mentioned this was going to be a comparatively atypical week on these pages, and I can't think of anything...

Barkmarket had an ungodly amount of competition in the early 90s, with healthy servings of indie, grunge, metal, punk and shoegazer takin...

Just FYI, I'm in a random mood this week, but I have to start somewhere, so I'm starting with this.  I had some big time trepidati...

Pond's first album ( self titled on Sub Pop ) was a slow grower for me, but after witnessing a killer live performance in 1993, I was...

I'm well overdue for the next installment of a little series of self-curated compilations that I began posting in 2010.  Adhering to t...

Man, I really wish I had been paying attention when these guys (and girl) were still active.  I probably came across their name dozens of ...

Here it is, the grand finale of Chanukah week, but for better or worse, the emphasis on this post is more on words than music (but there...

In light of today's events dedicating more ones and zeros to discussing and disseminating cool music feels a little frivolous, but per...

I received this cassette in a large lot of demos and the like earlier this year.  The sleeve is credited to Ward 8 , as is the first side ...

This handy compact disc compiles the first two ep releases of Boston's O Positive , a collegiate indie-pop troupe who signed their sou...

Along with the Close Lobsters, The Dentists proved to be one of the smartest and most sophisticated jangle exports from the British Isl...

Big unveiling tod ay folk s.  I honestly can't recall how Cannon Heath Down made it onto my radar, but I must have liked what I heard...

A couple of you have requested some vintage Velocity Girl wax, particularly 45s, and today I aim to please.  Before proceeding, this is n...

This is a fan-curated Aztec Camera bootleg of sorts, with the emphasis placed on Roddy Frame's pre- High Land Hard Rain recordings,...

Those of you who frequent Wilfully Obscure know that around the week of Christmas I tend to offer an extra special unveiling - a BFD so t...

Bowing at the distortion-addled altar of Hum, Failure, and even hometown brethren No Knife, San Diego's Machines Learning brew up a s...

You’ve got to give it up for a band like The Pilgrims who wield that “just rolled outta bed nonchalance, but still have our shit way mor...

By the time they got around to wrapping up North 421 Two Small Bodies actually consisted of four bodies, and fairly normal sized ones at...

Considering that my interest in Died Pretty largely began and ended with the song "True Fool Fall," a single off their 1990 Eve...

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...