Wilfully Obscure

Feel the burn!  Hard to believe another band didn't christen themselves with such a simple but effective moniker before Montreal 's ...

My cat is sleeping and my jade tree's dying. Here

The Pezband were part and parcel of the power pop vanguard, emerging from said genre's mid-to-late '70s wellspring, and while I nev...

This one is a little on the slick side, but I'm hardly complaining.  Private I wielded a synthy blend of AOR thrust with a mainstream...

Well this one really hits the sweet spot. Wish I could tell you more about Daddy in His Deep Sleep other than A) Scott Miller of Game Theo...

Two albums from 1979-80, courtesy of a rhythmically aware Brit pop/wave act who had a vague inclination to a guy who's last name was Cos...

Hearing Screeching Weasel for the first time in 1993 was an absolute revelation for me.  Right around the time I had absorbed just about th...

The pride and joy of Ephrata, WA, Moral Crux were always a bit formulaic, but oh what a formula!   Spiking traditional Brit punk with Yanke...

It seemed like I had been hearing of the Micronotz (formally the Mortal Micronotz ) for decades before actually encountering any of their r...

I recently had a request for Crescent, the second album from Pennsylvania pop-punks Pollen .  Way back when I started this whole ball of ...

From 1995, and it's a good 'un. Also, I just wanted to share a couple of reminders about Mystery Monday posts.  Please do not gi...

Fair to say this one's a bit of a cold case.  No substantive mentions of the co-ed and presumably British Korova Milk Bar outside of ...

I've long been a fan of the Comsat Angels initial trifecta of superb, melancholic post-punk albums - Waiting for a Miracle, Sleep No Mo...

Sadly, there's not much to be had on The Aviators , although this wasn't their only record.  Per the back sleeve notes, they recor...

From 1982.  This album was performed in it's entirety on select tour dates this year

It would appear that all the power pop sophisticates (i.e. hipsters) have been putting their eggs in one basket of late – this one.  If y...

Behold, the "mystery" live Sloan album.  Mysterious in the sense that there's no mention as to when it was recorded, simply t...

Fountain of Youth Records was a Washington D.C. based imprint that pumped out a slew of releases for hardcore titans Goverment Issue durin...

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...