Wilfully Obscure

So you wanna know what Vaporwave is all about?  Of course you do.  I've got two prime examples for you below.  Hear

More request fulfillment.  I didn't have much of a relationship with the Swimming Pool Q's music during their '80s heyday.  I...

Recently had a request for this one.  The McGuires were a pop-centric San Francisco treat with something of an acoustic bent.  Think a more...

Not to be confused with the American '80s band The Reds, the band we're dealing with today, The Red were obscuro Brit exports who...

Two late '80s albums from a Washington state quartet who have been defunct for a good two decades now. Hear

What would possess someone to gather up every single take and remix of U2's "Two Hearts Beat As One" and have it pressed to...

I've been meaning to post this for awhile as a follow-up to the X-Teens LP I shared a good four years ago.  This co-ed NC five piece...

I'm down with the band, the frontman, not so much.  Tomy Brennan passes himself off as a goofy caricature of David Byrne, drooling a...

From 1994.  Their first (or third) album, depending on how you're counting. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Realistically, I'm probably not going to be able to post anything else for the remainder of the week.  Maybe on the weekend, but that...

Here's a rundown of some new releases recently sent my way. Throw a dart an any given project or musical entity Jason Falkner is as...

Debut from 1981.  Falls a few notches short of landmark status, but still a hell of a way to kick off a career that's still in progress....

When doing what research I could on this one, I discovered that Minneapolis' long defunct Swing Set ironically had something of recen...

I was in for a bit of a shock when I first heard this one, expecting the same Absolute Grey who dazzled me (albeit posthumously) with their...

The 1997 follow-up that bested his debut. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

I can't believe I've neglected Zipgun this whole time, considering I've been listening to them waaaaay longer than I've bee...

For a good swath of the '90s Hagfish were the gift that kept on giving.  Four monkey-suited Dallas denizens dropped three, rock '...

Remember when I took to task Sorry's '86 platter The Way it Is and blabbed something about their earlier "rough and tumble...

From 1990.  Believe it or not these guys once had integrity...and songs to die for.  **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

The little spoken of Adrian's Childhood were from said to hail from Seattle, but amazingly don't emanate a shred o' grunge.  Mo...

This Rochester, NY quartet spent the second half of their lifespan as Jet Black Berries , but they wasted nary a second of their arguably ...

Likely my favorite album from 2002.  Hope it becomes yours as well. Hear

Here's one of the more straight-up rock and roll records I've offered in awhile.  The Leonards were a riff-pop powerhouse from L....

I opined on Manifesto a few years ago, or more specifically one of it's members, Michael Hampton who had been in a number of Washing...

And where will you be in 1993?    - "Never Really Been" The above lyric swiped from an acoustic ballad on Soul Asylum's Ma...