Wilfully Obscure

I didn't want to jump the gun two weeks ago when Lou Reed's death was announced, and rush something onto these pages for the sake...

I haven't said it often enough on here, but Garden Variety were responsible for the grandest sound to ever emanate from everyone's ...

I've been holding out on sharing one of the best albums to materialize since I started Wilfully Obscure, namely Red Fox Grey Fox's ...

This late '90s Midwest sensation ditched their emo blues and traded up for some of the most glorious indie rock this side of Superchun...

Though they hailed from Glasgow, Scotland, The Primevals shtick was steeped in American sensibilities, angling for the southwest I might ...

The moniker of this southern Cali crew may strike you as a bit frivolous, but it actually turned out to be ironically prophetic.  In the e...

It just dawned on me to today that The Black Watch's tenure has spanned no less than a four decades, yet they've been a band for l...

Had a request for this one.  Brave New World were presumably hatched in east Pennsylvania, if the address of their record label World Rec...

An unheralded but ingenious concoction of the Britpop era, circa 1993. Having difficulty accessing the file?  Please try again a little ...

Considering that I've shared the Pedaljets 1988 debut album, Today, Today , and even a scarce demo tape of sorts, I would be remiss...

It took a hell of a long time (try the better part of two decades), but I eventually came under the spell of Sardina's lone 1995 album,...

This isn't my first entry regarding the should-have-been huge Pengwins , an Arlington, TX power pop troupe comandeered by one Lannie Flo...

When I learned that Lost Luggage were responsible for a DIY ep that way predated the Chateau Relaxeau cd I shared with you last year, I k...

I present you with the masterful second album from an Athens, GA trio I've enthusiastically featured on W/O before.  Enjoy. Having di...

Little Hits was an unrelated music blog that preceded mine, which largely dealt with left-off-the-dial indie rock obscurities circa the 1...

Call it impatience.  In 2011, when I hastily uploaded an album's worth of vintage demos from one of Hoboken, NJ's most acclaimed ind...

Another cold case, this one from New Jersey.  Too bad I only have the cassette version of Rain Down, as the skimpy j-card doesn't offer...

If you're gonna record your album on the sidewalk (for Chrissakes) you might as well go all out and start the tape rolling a hop, skip a...

Ex-straightedge guys from Indiana repurpose their modus operandi, and adopt the ethos and romanticism of classic Bruce Springtseen for one...

I take comfort in the fact that I'm still discovering stimulating records from as far back as twenty to thirty years ago, made by unknow...

Aside from their location (Minneapolis) there isn't anything I can tell you about The Sycamores right off the top of my head.  Luckil...

Maybe it's just me, but power pop in 2013, doesn't strike me as indiscernible as power pop from say ten years ago...or even twenty. ...

A collection of demos and acoustic tracks from a surviving member of the class of '77, making their Wilfully Obscure debut today.  H...

Speaking of Jawbreaker...  It's enticing albums like this that make me wonder "what if?" Blake, Chris and Adam had stuck aroun...