Wilfully Obscure

Today's its a double albums worth of B-sides and such from a band whose ten albums have been richly rewarding.   And,  yes, that's...

I usually don't get too attached to live bootlegs, but I've been dipping into this one a lot in the past week.  Ben Folds upcomin...

Oh boy.  The rendering of any Velvet Underground song is likely to be wildly hit or a miss (take a guess where Macaulay Culkin resides on ...

Here's a fairly recent discovery of mine, even if the record itself dates almost three decades ago.  Presumably from Dayton, OH (or ther...

A "Greatest Hits" package in name only.  Considering how earnest and unpretentious these 21 songs are, in a perfect world they wou...

In the 1980s you might say the premise of American punk rock transitioned from the socio/political to something of a more personal nature....

1993 in and of itself may have seemed like a relatively inauspicious year for music - and maybe it was, but as far as I was concerned that y...

Several years ago I barely mentioned Doc Hopper on these pages, specifically in a feature I did on a split 45 of theirs with the Bollwee...

From 1979.  A record this good only comes along every 36 years.  Green Day got way many more people through the doors than these guys, but i...

I recently had a request for some sort of music from a Sheffield, England band dubbed Treebound Story .  I don't actually possess the re...

Any fan of twentieth-century rock and pop (especially the type of toothsome treats I present on this very site) know full well that scoping ...

Got an ultra, uber-obscure curio in the form of a four song cassette by Nashville’s presumably defunct say-so .   This co-ed Nashville duo(...

Once upon a time, possibly the late '80s I threw a buck at the cassette version of this album in a cut out bin.  At the time I deemed it...

Today it's the bonus disk belonging to a deluxe reissue of a much coveted new wave-era platter from 1982. Here

Well, this one was formally the province of a Mystery Monday post from earlier this year, but for no apparent reason I've opted to mak...

...has gained momentum, and I have as well.  Folks, it's time for summer vacation, which means no postings, requests, return emails or M...

Well, it looks like you've made the first two Teen Line compilation disks I posted a few months ago enormously popular, download-wi...

You know that whole darkwave/post-punk resurgence that everyone is either lauding, bemoaning or otherwise?  Seattle's Nostalgist aren...

This week it's four ep's representing four relatively disparate genres.  One (or perhaps more) is just right for you.  Here

The Outlets .  Now there's a cool band name, and the band's attendant music is commendable as well.  Helmed by brothers Dave and R...

Having offered a critique of the first two exhaustive and massively expanded Hard-Ons reissues last week ( Smell My Finger and Dickcheese...

This is my fourth plunge into the Angst well, and could be the last (or if you're lucky, second to last).  I've presented no less...

These days, it's almost wholly unrealistic to expect any newcomers to "reinvent the wheel," as it were, but I laud those who t...

From 2007.  Wry and occasionally bratty keyboard pop in the mold of Ben Folds Five.  Some fantabulous tunes here.  Too bad we never got a se...

Why is a random Poster Children show taking up space here on this unsuspecting summer Saturday?  Just seemed like the thing to do I guess...