Wilfully Obscure

The magnificent 1997 album from San Diego's self-proclaimed purveyors of "audio karate."  Here

Thought this would be a suitable follow-up to my Raymond Brake post from the other night.  I first became conscious of the fact that I was a...

Nineties indie rock in North Carolina.  On one hand you had the "kingpins" like Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, and technically (thou...

From 1994. Might this band include an ex-Lemonhead in their lineup?   They might indeed. Here

As if ordering hard to find CD titles from the now sadly departed Not Lame Records wasn't enough of a treat back in the '90s and ...

Recently had a request for this, although I don't own a physical copy myself.  It's apparently impossible to locate from what little...

Not exactly the biggest revelation I've pitched in your direction, but a nice follow-up to my Posies review last night.  Submitted for ...

Ok, suppose your favorite band zigs when you expected them to zag.  And suppose that grouped penned a significant chapter for the genre th...

Four eps from four unrelated artists.  Something for everyone, and that's not an exaggeration.  For true. Here

This ep is a scant fourteen minutes, but hard as it may be to believe Philly's Wishniaks don't waste a nanosecond.  The quartet...

Back in the twentieth century it was all too easy and convenient to ignore import releases.  Even fans that flocked to TPOH's 1988 magnu...

Debut album action from 2003.  Should have been huge. Here

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....