Wilfully Obscure

Out of this world pop-punk from 1995. Here

Here's a rather substantial upgrade to a record I posted almost seven years ago.  Fronted by proto power-pop maven Van Drunen , who was...

This is just one of many albums in the "S" section of my CD rack that I fail to acknowledge 99.99% of the time when I'm brow...

From 2003.  Saturday I presented you with something that's about as close to avant garde as I get.  Today I'm playing it a little ...

We gave a party for the gods...and the gods all came.   - John Giorno. I'll admit it.  Hüsker Dü were the draw for me here, or more s...

Request fulfilled to the individual who asked for this, and while I'm not in possession of the original artifact, another blogger made...

Not long after I made Minneapolis' Love Under Pressure's first album ( The Elvis Years ) available for public consumption I was con...

Here's an approporiate album title for Valentine's Day if there ever was one.  Sadly, word went out two weeks ago that Majesty Cru...

A skewed alt-pop pearl from 1993. Here

My turntable is out of commission, sad to say, but the archives are pretty well stocked.  This Moss Poles ep is plucked from the fat of t...

I recently had a request for the White Sisters .  I shared a cassette by them about six years ago, and am presenting it here along with bot...

Like last week's MM, this one is a borderline eulogy.  Sadly, we lost the singer of this sublime Detroit dream-pop quartet just last wee...

Dang, where has this record been my whole life, or at the very least the better half of it?  I was tipped off to Fluffy when an alum of ano...

2015 may not have been a banner year for music, but it was a definite improvement over the three or four that preceded it.  This was due in ...

I've never been big on saxophones, and unfortunately Tablet kicks off with plenty of them.  Luckily, The Decorators compensate with a ...

This week I'm commemorating the anniversary of the passing of this group's frontman, who left us almost one year ago to this day. ...

Even when Flesh for Lulu arguably peaked in 1987 (circa Long Live the New Flesh ) they were regarded as little more than a post-new romanti...

I tend not to open new vinyl releases, and that extends to Record Store Day titles as well.  In fact, I held off unsealing this one for two ...

I suppose comparisons are inevitable when you're the offspring of piano-pumping troubadour Ben Folds .  Sure, she tickles the ivories,...

'90s pop from Scotland, approved by Kurt Cobain.  Here

Ever run a genre search on Ebay?  A query for "power pop" brought this one up week after week, until I finally relented and found ...

I've been at this thing for almost ten years now, and it just occurred to me this week to feature something by Green Magnet School , a b...

No other clue this week other than a 1994 release date.  That should help narrow things down, right? 

Their moniker begins with a "C," but the adjectives that describe them most appropriately begin with the thirteenth letter of the ...

A double-barreled, Ramonesy assault from down under.  This compilation purloins the best from this Aussie outfit's 1990-93 recordings. ...