Wilfully Obscure

A classy and rewarding power pop salvo to close out the twentieth century.  Here

I typically steer clear of sharing music that's commercially available, but I'm making a semi-objection to that rule here.  More a...

Closer to when I started this thing of ours called Wilfully Obscure, I shared two regional Replacements tribute compilations.  Sorry Ma Forg...

C86's twenty-first century second coming.  Here

Another Record Store Day has just crept into the annals of retail history.  This year marked the tenth anniversary, and although attendance ...

Couple weeks ago I got a pretty hep request for Christmas' (the band) idiosyncratic debut In Excelsior Dayglo ...and here it is.  While...

Nine years ago I wasn't expecting such a fevered reaction to two records I shared by an old school Austin, TX outfit, Glass Eye .  Those...

This would have been more suitable yesterday, but around here we save the mysteries for Mondays. Here

When the Thumbs were active in the late '70s/'80s there was a myriad of directions they could have ventured into - ska, new romanti...

Sorry I've been slack of late.  I should have more needle-drops to post in the non-too-distant future. Here's one I wrote up for a p...

Primo Can-inide rock from 1998.  Track seven is in my head more than I care to admit.  So much so, I've even supplied an alternate versi...

The folks attending this early December gig at Hoboken's legendary Maxwells got an early Christmas present with a visit from one of L....

In 1977 this Memphis quartet "broke the ice" with Wanna Meet the Scruffs? , a colossally lauded proto-power pop album that unfo...

If it seems unimaginative of me to follow up my One Plus Two post from last week with yet another ep by the same folks in less than a wee...

Circa 1990.  Not to be passed up. Here

I first/last wrote about One Plus Two almost a decade ago, so I suppose that makes me overdue.  Information on this quartet was scant at be...

By now, Saint Marie Records has etched it's name as the foremost purveyor of all things dream-pop and nu-gaze into the hearts, minds, a...

Hmmm.  Bought this one based on the oddball album jacket, the band's potential power pop pedigree.  Truthfully, I was anticipating som...

It's another batch of four EPs.  Among these are forays into minimalist punk, singer/songwriter alt-pop, southern rock, and an exceeding...

I have a feeling recording time at studios in/around L.A. in the late seventies must have been a king's ransom.  How else you can you ex...

For some, what if the British Invasion wasn't an invasion, so much as a breach or even a de minimus sideswipe?   We can't attribute ...

I'm not sure how prominent Think as Incas were in their hometown of Memphis, but the quartet saw frontman David Shouse migrate to th...

A 1997 compilation from one of Australia's greatest, if not so latest.  Here

Punk/wave/indie bands that prominently feature saxophones tend not to exude the sweetest of vibes, but Boston's Boys Life were at lea...

On the surface, there may not be much to differentiate one Muffs album from another, but the subtleties are there.  After a spate of single...