Wilfully Obscure

**The music links in this file are no longer active, as I have not been granted permission to share them.  My apologies and thanks for you...

There hasn't been much activity on this page in the past week, and it shall remain that way until Sunday evening (EST) is upon us.  In...

More glum music for another glum news day. To be honest, I had designs on sharing this one for awhile, especially after my entry for Nice St...

The second (and IMO) best album from this long-running Aussie troupe, plus an ep that followed one year later. Here

Upon sharing a 1991 7" from Detroit's Missed in Diary a few months ago, one of our readers was thoughtful enough to supply me with...

Arising not from the primordial ooze of say, California's fabled La Brea Tar Pits, rather central Ohio, Sex Tide manage to pack a su...

This 1986 album should have made these four gentlemen millionaires.  It didn't.  And neither did their next album, or the one after that...

I suppose this doesn't require much explanation or heavy insight.  It's Swervedriver circa Mezcal Head on one of America's c...

Upon doing a web query on this bygone southern California outfit, I discovered that a music blog had presented a previous Retriever reco...

It's been eight years since I've broached the topic of Arcwelder , a band that was an indispensable soundtrack staple of my colle...

Seventeen greats from one of post-punks greatest. Here

As you might guess, there was/is more than one band out in the universe going by the name of "The Now," and frankly, I'm not...

For those of us in the States, anyone's knowledge of Melbourne Australia's Earthmen probably began and ended with their first LP, 1...

Primo indie power pop from 2001. Here

Presumably from the environs of the New England area (based on the Vermont locale of Sudden Shame Records), Four Color Manual's mildy d...

I don't exactly have a bounty of specifics to extol on this power pop quartet, but nevertheless I'm sure that a good many of you w...

If you've ever desired a birds-eye microcosm, or for that matter a handy summation of the goings-on within the still-fertile Ohio indie ...

I would suggest starting with track seven first... Here

This Thursday I learned the sad news that Winter Hours guitarist/leading light Michael Carlucci passed away suddenly from a heart attack. ...

It appears my turntable is sick, so this might be the last vinyl I'm able to share for a spell (though I hear a tape deck can be a lot o...

Holy smokes.  We don't see many bands coming out of the Hawaiian woodwork, but this combo barrels out of the Aloha State like a damn ste...

A rerun of one of the earliest Mystery Monday entries you may have missed.  One of my top-20 favorites from the '90s.  Wide-eyed Midwest...

I was considering saving this for one of my world famous Chanukah features, but since these were at one point in wide circulation online, I ...

Don't let the paisley album jacket fool you, as the Baltimore quartet responsible for it weren't cut from psychedelic stock in the l...

I really don't have much of a spiel to relate on how I became a Johnny-come-lately fan of the Red Rockers .  Saw the video for "Chi...