Wilfully Obscure

Sorry I haven't been able to give you much this week, but you'll probably find this humdinger a nice asset to the collection.  The M...

Q:  Can a band's studio outtakes vastly exceed the quality of their officially released product? A: Yes!   Here are sixteen power po...

To follow up my Game Theory post from the other night, here's a live soundboard performance from a now defunct Berkeley, CA club .  Tho...

Before delving into my critique, for the uninitiated, Game Theory were a Davis, CA export who belonged to a loosely allied vanguard of for...

Starbilly was the brainchild of one Peter Searcy , a Louisville, KY native who made a gnarly punk noise in the mid-80s via the seminal, t...

Yes, this album jacket is irrefutably daft - the music enclosed, not so much (thankfully).  You're not getting The Joshua Tree here fol...

From 1994.  I know a lot of you already have this, but for money this is the most satisfying thing they did. Here

Since I didn't have time to transfer any vinyl this week it's another selection from my dwindling pile of shareable CDs.  Don't ...

Four eps from four extremely disparate artists. Here

From a cosmetic standpoint, it might be easy to mistake this vintage, Conventry, UK crew as just another punk aggregation (suppose it doesn...

Not much time for a write-up tonight, but luckily this one's pretty straightforward.  Two LA bands cover two bona fide classics from A...

The album's called Dirt, and so is the label it appears on.  Fittingly, the record revolves around bands who played a venue called Dirt...

If you live in the States (or neighboring countries) and have never encountered The Earthmen you're more than forgiven.  For one, the...

The 1990 & '91 rip-roaring, sardonic salvos from one of greater Illinois' greatest.  Octane, baby. Here

This is following up the first Woodpecker ep I shared a couple weeks back.  I wasn't exactly sure what to make of that first record, ...

Metal Flake Mother were one of the more modest spokes comprising the mega wheel that was the North Carolina indie scene circa the early ...

A debut from 1987 that was nothing short of stellar. Here

Set the Wayback Machine to 1991.  During those heady pre-web days around the turn of the alt-rawk decade, I was downright reliant on fanzi...

How could I resist any record bearing the Throbbing Lobster logo (at a buck no less)?  Let's see.  This co-ed Boston clique had X writte...

From 1991.  Enjoy. Here

Their homebase may have been in Boston (or thereabouts), but with such pronounced Americana leanings you'd easily mistake Big Barn Bur...

Woodpecker is/was the province of one Anthony Overtoom , whose larynx amounts to a vague medley of Bob Dylan and Grant Hart, however this t...

It looks like I won't be posting any new music until tomorrow, but to tide you over I thought I'd share this.  A couple days ago I w...

A 1995 album that was unfortunately released under the worst of circumstances. Here

From the standpoint of major labels, say CBS, the trend du jour in the early '80s was relatively staid and formulaic, despite the burgeo...