Wilfully Obscure

You're welcome.  Essentially, I'm looking at two years down, three and a half more to go, and I still don't think I'll get ...

It's been many moons since I've dedicated space to the mercurially monikered Tobin Sprout , who got his first big break in the so-...

This one will probably throw a lot of you for a loop.  It's been a major guilty pleasure of mine for the past two years.  I'm not ...

Hot Sauce!  Pretty much anything Jeff Shelton attaches his name to, particularly a pair of straight-shooting power pop troupes - the Spin...

This is a folllow-up entry to the Frontier Theory album Atlantic that I digitized in 2011.  I lauded that 1987 album as something akin t...

Swedish National Radio, April 22, 1996 1. Dream All Day 2. Throwaway 3. Love Letter Boxes 4. Golden Blunders 5. Precious Moments 6. ...

It came to my attention this week that Julian Cope's classic 1987 LP, Saint Julian just got the double disk reissue treatment (with...

Had a request for this one awhile back, that I'm just getting to today.  It follows up last night's Can-indie delight nicely, as i...

First off, I'm not sure if this compilation is untitled or if the title is the lettering on the sign that adorns the over which reads ...

If it's Monday, it's mysterious.  Since this week's offering is a bit larger than usual, I'll at least tell you this much ...

No sophomore slump here.  In 2011 I was blown damn - near clear out of the water by a new invention called Shy Mirrors , or more specifica...

When I compiled Muler's volley of '90s singles for a blog post all the way back in 2009, I'm not sure why I wasn't promp...

Upon hearing this Brit quartet for the first time way after the fact just a few years ago, I quickly picked up on the Snake Corps modera...

Now this is the kind of band I like taking up space in my email in-box.  Ladies and gentlemen I present to you Boston's Funeral Advan...

If it's Monday, it's mysterious (sound familiar)?  Regarding last week's debut of Mystery Mondays, there were concerns raised ...

One year down, and about five more to go.  Three weeks to the day Rapidshare pulled the rug out from under me, most of the lights are still ...

It only take one passionate, hardcore fan to serve as the impetus for an uber-obscure band of yesteryear to come out of hibernation.  Kurt...

Though they're only sharing one track from this album, What Frank is Listening To blog beat me to the clock in profiling this one las...

I hate to throw another "maintenance" post onto the fire, but it appears that certain concerns with my new file-hoster of choice, ...

Forgive me if this has already made it's way into the blogosphere in the last 24 hours.  A friend suggested I share this, upon last ni...

If it's Monday, it's mysterious.  Procrastinate not, for this is only going to be up for just 24 hours.  A very big favorite of mi...

Hey folks.  There's a Sloan lyric that goes something like "the only good thing about the weekend baby, is that Monday is two day...

I'm not what you call a huge fanboy of Cleaner From Venus .  Case in point, I've resisted buying any of the recent Captured Tracks...

Yet another Google-devoid commodity, this time from a jangly El Cajon, CA export called The Ant Lions .  Going on a first name basis only ...

Seattle's Matinee Idol's strike me as too warm to be branded post-punk, but too straight-faced to lump into the power pop/wave n...