Wilfully Obscure

Here's The Catch - with no strings or "22" attached.  This Boston quartet's home-grown new wave/power pop smacks of summe...

Until I have the opportunity to digitize more analog curios, I've decided to share this.  Probably a good 25% of you are already familia...

From 1989.  This is where my head has been at for the last week or so.  Tracks five and eleven feature a fairly prominent backing artist.  T...

Swervedriver likely need no introduction.  Given the rich musical spoils of the early '90s, from all that was going on in US indie an...

*Sigh*  There will not be a second Clinton administration, but musical remnants from the first are still rampant.  Going for a pop angle in ...

A splendid rock 'n roll platter from 1990.  From punky to serene, and everything in between. Here

As I proceed to share another "cold case" recording with you something dawned on me.  There's a very voyeuristic aspect to thi...

A three piece from Vancouver, BC, The Water Walk were a not oft spoken of combo who mastered a penchant for strummy guitar pop on their d...

1984 called...and it desperately wants to hear more albums like this one. Here

Given it's reputation as a thriving, uber-hotbed for emerging talent, Austin, TX must be a mofo of a town to be the proverbial squeaky w...

I absolutely love this.  Named after the seaside southern Cali city from which they presumably call home, Goleta registered on my radar tha...

Yet another in a long line of indie rock cold cases.  My understanding is that this power trio hailed from holy Toledo, Ohio.  Much like Tru...

This is one of many albums in my collection, but what makes it relatively unique is that I don't know how it arrived there.  You know ...

A surprisingly satisfying power pop reunion album from 2009. Here

It's been another long layover since I cobbled together one of my world renown "letter" folder mixes.  Following in the hall...

Last night.  Uggh.  Time for some protest music.  I'm not sure if I've introduced you to Discount or not - an unassuming but emot...

All the songs you really need to hear from this storied quartet's second phase. Here

Not aggressive enough for the punks, a tad too bratty to be suitably labeled "power pop," and hardly pedestrian enough for the p...

Won't be able to offer you much until the weekend kids.  Please give us a call then.

Not only are you getting the 2004 debut platter from this Long Island contingent, but also some of the demos that were recorded in anticipat...

You know that new Teenage Fanclub ( Here ) you treated yourself to about a month ago?  If it's currently occupying a space in your CD or...

Yet another thoroughly blind purchase, although seeing Peter Buck's name in the credits didn't hurt.  The eclectic Upbeats were f...

The 1980 debut from the high and mighty king of cool. Here

My share this spring of a previous installment in the Lost in the Haze comp series was met with no small amount of enthusiasm, so I could...

No doubt marketed as "new wave, Indoor Life's exploratory leanings put this trio well to the left of say, Thompson Twins or How...