Wilfully Obscure

I picked up this one based on a pretty reliable trademark of quality, the spinART Records logo.  The bargain price didn't hurt either.  ...

An ace find here. What de minimis info that exists online regarding Holiday Slides somehow fails to mention this record.  For shame, beca...

From 1998, but technically a year prior.  Divine crunch-pop with a slight Weezer underbite. Here

A couple of you have pointed out the CD version of  Zeitgeist's (later The Reivers ) Translate Slowly , which I initially shared bac...

In the mood for some insular, densely packed indie rock, often approaching something of a melancholic maelstrom?  Yeah, me too.  NYC noiseni...

From 1981. Here

Since I won't be delivering any more musical delights until Monday, I thought I'd make the weekend count by sharing this sixth ins...

Once upon a time (say early/mid '90s) there was a very good noise-pop band called Smashing Orange , who as it so happened were oversha...

A remarkably amusing and often rewarding impromptu album of sorts, containing fourteen songs written in four days and cut in eight hours in ...

This bygone Berkeley, CA unit bears no shortage of affinity for the Minutemen and Gang of Four's brand of skittish, post-punk.  I'...

You might say I'm sharing this partly for superficial reasons.  I have some rather lofty stacks of cassettes on my dresser, and this one...

These cheeky lil doggies function more along the lines of a Dalmatian than say, a German Shepard. This, their apparently lone 12" is ...

Four very solid EPs, including an especially bruising four-song salvo from 1991.  Here

Just about every year (or two) a rather unique musical package comes down that pike that few people in the world are aware of.  Luckily a ...

A new Flamin' Groovies album doesn't come along every year.  Or even every decade.  That being said, will once in a century work ...

One you might have missed from 1990.  Here

I've previously featured the Liquor Giants second album, the splendid Here on these pages before, but have been hesitant to post anyth...

I think you'd be hard pressed to find rock and roll aficionados who came up in the seventies and/or eighties that didn't have som...

I'm afraid I will not be able to offer you Mystery Monday this week,  as my computer is currently out of commission.   I hope to return ...

It's been a long time between posts everyone, my apologies.  I hope this makes up for it.  What we have here is a hypothetical GBV albu...

A bittersweet debut album from 1988. Here

Recently had a request for this one.  It was originally hosted on another blog, but my understanding is that the link is long dead.  At any ...

So much has been written and anthologized about Chris Bell that I'm bound to sound redundant regardless of what length I limit myself...

Just for the record, in the post- Replacements sweepstakes let it be known that Tommy Stinson's Bash & Pop debut Friday Night i...

It's amazing that a relatively "minor" piece of music recorded almost three decades ago made the kind of effect on me this t...