Wilfully Obscure

The Splatcats rarely come up in conversation these days, if ever - even in their misbegotten home turf of Buffalo, NY.  But in their brief ...

It just dawned on me that this disk turned twenty this year.  Sometime in 1998 a friend told me these guys sounded like Lifetime and that I...

Here's a band that time forgot...but Not Lame didn't.  No, this wasn't a Not Lame Records release, rather a title I procured f...

I'll admit it.  Even I've privately referred to Permanent Green Light as "That post- Three O'Clock band."  I didn...

1989 album from trio of downstate New York lads.  Bit of an acquired taste this one. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear...

Surprisingly, the internet doesn't have much to offer on The Delfields despite this album having only been in existence for ten years. ...

Hailing from the not oft spoken locale of Newport News, VA, The Lift weave some intermittent magic across the dozen song (and one stray c...

From 1992. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Got a very early Aztec Camera piece for you tonight.  So early in fact that AC front-man Roddy Frame was a mere fifteen years old when t...

So...this one wasn't exactly a magnum opus.  Another of my "bought it for the cover" endeavors, and the skate punk I was su...

Well, it looks like another blog (I'll let you figure out which one) got the "jump" on this one before yours truly, but I had ...

From 1998.  I may have shared this before, but considering how much more it's sunk in with me over the past few years that gives me ad...

Much ado has been made of Sonic Youth's 1988 double album Daydream Nation - and virtually every scrap of praise and critique has been ...

Would you believe another blog got to this one a good fifteen years before I did?  For starters they didn't share the whole record, ...

Stark Raving were a Connecticut export whose lone record, Sniveling and Whining came courtesy of Incas Records, one of my favorite indie i...

From 1980. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Alright, I practically had to take a day off from work to lasso this one all together.  Per above, 71 tunes, three hours of content spread a...

Word went out on Sunday afternoon that John Wicks , who had been battling cancer on and off for the past few years, had tragically succumb...

From 1996.  I'm pretty certain a good 30% (or more of you) have heard this one, but to anyone who hasn't, try to set aside some qual...

By the time the Doughboys turned in 1993's wonderful Crush, this celebrated Montreal crew with an ever-evolving lineup had graduated...

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