Wilfully Obscure

Annual vacation time again.  This means no Mystery Monday next, nor will I be able to accommodate re-up requests or respond to much email un...

We're up to Vol. 5 in the Teen Line series, one of the finest and most consistent attempts to archive the most arcane and obscuro pow...

Shortly into Primitive Smalls opening salvo, "Maze" Jeff Runnings ' intones "If all you want is a joyride, by all mea...

I can't begin to rationalize why anyone would name a record after someone so hideous.  That aside, the six songs enshrined within compen...

A grand Swedish export from 2007, and surprise, it's not the least bit power pop. Here

Well, this wasn't how I was expecting to cap off a week chock full of emo releases, but sometimes life and current events throw a wrench...

Flying well below the radar, Sideshow's Lip Read Confusion LP, circa 1995, managed to log some serious hours in the various CD liste...

I was happy to make my acquaintance with this Atlanta, GA bunch, even if it was a quarter-century belated.  I found this amidst a mammoth da...

Here's the oft overlooked sophomore LP as well as an even more impressive live album from some of the finest purveyors of emo in the ...

I would assume this one isn't going to require much explanation. Here's nine items that were strewn on the cutting room floor for th...

Oh boy.   Field Day might not be thedeal jumping off point for an introduction to Dag Nasty , but it was in fact mine.  You'd be well...

Since the passing of this band's singer two months ago, I have been utterly besotted with their 1994 and '96 albums.  Now you can to...

Sorry I haven't been able to give you much this week.  Windows has crashed on multiple occasions, and I've been forced to reinstall....

The utter perils of naming your band Christmas , let me count the ways.  Granted, that's merely my perspective but to their credit this ...

One of my favorite album's from 2011.  If you haven't heard it before, trust me, you're not alone.  Enjoy. Here

Last December, as part of my Chanukah uploads series of out-of-print records of yore that warranted "special emphasis" I was pl...

Yet more rock o' the 80s that the 21st century has all but relegated to the province of cobwebs.  Produced and engineered by Butch Vig, ...

The 1992 album from a band I don't think I've delved into before, at least not on these pages.  Track six is an interesting re-write...

In 1990, hearing the Ocean Blue's "Between Something and Nothing" on college/alt-rock radio was about as unavoidable as encou...

I must have had plenty of opportunities in the twentieth century to investigate the Pyramidiacs , be it from recommendations from Not Lame...

If the rather graphic depiction on the Young Lords album sleeve (to your left) has you doing a double take, it's probably for a valid r...

Is it just me, or do these guys bear a certain likeness to the Strokes?  Here are their first two albums, from 2002 & '03. Here

Recently had a request for this one.  As much as I was enamored with the Chainsaw's careening debut, Violent Religion, and for all per...

Leave it to the '90s to inspire compilation singles that were often more exciting than full length various artists collections (though t...

Helmed by Ian Blurton , Change of Heart were fixtures in Canadian indie rock for a sizable chunk of the '80s & '90s.  Renown fo...