Wilfully Obscure

Winnipeg's Lanes strike me as something of an indie guitar-rock holdover from the '90s.  Chunky riffs, sweet tunings and endearin...

I was happy to oblige a recent request for this ep, which I probably hadn't listened to in nearly a decade.  As I gave it a spin today...

Dolce Vita's brand of MTV-friendly power pop/wave wasn't especially innovative, but for their good fortune, pretty damn effective. ...

Released at arguably the height of the Bay Area punk/hc '90s revival, The Cinnamon Imperials put out this excellent 45 of spry punk-p...

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I had a request for this one, as well as a re-up of the second Jo Broadbery album, The House of Love , which I shared all the way back i...

One of my best Ebay cassette discoveries in recent years.  Joey Sweeney is a Philly native, but unbeknownst to me at the time I picked th...

Aussie import time again, from a band I can find not a shred of info about, save for a Discogs entry.  "Deep Dark Hole" is a ta...

Prior to his collaborations with a bevy of home country figureheads, not to mention his own outright solo endeavors, noted Kiwi Peter Jeff...

I received word a couple weeks ago that an album I previously shared, 1991's No Fish Shop Parking by the scrappy UK noisenik threesom...

For a handful of you thirty/forty-somethings in the audience, the name Lucy Brown might ring a bell.  Not a woman, rather a D.C. area metal...

This weeks offering is a not-too-vintage indie rock nugget from an outfit whose modus operandi isn't far removed from that of a certai...

Greetings.  As many of you know, in late January I learned that my file hoster since Wilfully Obscure's inception in 2007, Rapidshare , ...

Your basic four-guys, rock and roll setup here.  Bought this on a whim, and largely got what I bargained for.  Very strong similarities to...

In honor of the appointment of the new pontiff, I present you with the third album from Davis, CA's Popealopes .  I've dedicated p...

Here's one I've been sitting on for awhile, for no particular reason...which I find is often the best reason. The Fabulous Knobs we...

Fort Worth, Texas may strike you as an unlikely locale for a taste-making indie label to set roots down, but that's where Saint Marie ha...

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Tommy Keene has been a relatively frequent mention on Wilfully Obscure, and three years ago when Second Motion Records released his tw...

For whatever the reason, my expectations were high for the Radio Bandits, and luckily the first half of this ep is very much commendable -...

Country time.  Kinda anyway.  You'd be hard pressed to fine a rock album (that still qualifies as one) that boasts more of an American...

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I bought this one for the cover - heck, the damn color scheme alone for that matter.  Passing judgement by Sugar Drive's moniker alon...

If the name Jane From Occupied Europe rings a bell, you've probably encountered the Swell Maps album of the same name.  As it turns o...

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 ...