Wilfully Obscure

Finally got around to ripping this one and kinda regret not getting to it sooner.  Why?  Well, it features no less than a half dozen acts ...

The latter part of this '80s band's discography.  A unique and invigorating take on punk with intermittent assaults of funk, plus a ...

It feels a little counterfeit writing a review for a soundtrack to a film I've only seen a trailer for. Then again, the movie pertai...

Yet another substantial indie rock proposition from the '90s that passed me by at the time.  Motor Home (which I've also seen spell...

For indie/punk connoisseurs in the '80s and early '90s the name Popdefect was relatively unavoidable.  It seemed like this L.A. a...

You might say this as close as Wilfully Obscure comes to a "reissue."  I originally shared this 1992 flexi from Revolver magazi...

From 2004.  The debut was great, but this followup surpassed it. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

So, what's stopped me from posting anything from Kitchens of Distinction ?   This probably has to do with the fact that most of their ca...

Sorry for being so late in getting something new out to you this week.  I hope this one makes up for it, not that many of you will recogni...

A two-fer featuring a 1983 album and ep from a group that practically wrote the playbook for the scene that celebrates itself. **Please do...

This one is pretty straightforward.  A full live set from Chicago's noisenik, indie/major label rockers Eleventh Dream Day .  This exemp...

This long bygone Jacksonville, FL trio had an interesting array of parties cropping up in their "thank you" list - grandmas, the...

Not to be confused withe the Boston band of the same (coincidentally featured here a few years ago) the Rods and Cones I'm sharing tod...

Something decidedly off the beaten path for you this week.  A chronological, double CD anthology spanning 1971-88 for a band that lay clai...

Something has always fascinated me about rural/small town indie rock, maybe because there seems to be so little of it.  Signal Thirty , oste...

It's time once again for our annual rehash *ahem* taster of the creme de la creme of Wilfully Obscure's juiciest morsels from th...

One of 2017's best.  Hope to get something new from them in the coming year. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

This hasn't been a banner week for content folks, and while I plan on treating you to some long requested uploads in the immediate fut...

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A must-hear masterwork from 1986.  **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Sport of Kings were fortunate to exist at a time when the word "goth" wasn't so liberally applied to music. If anything, th...

Crunchy and often shoegazer-y indie rock this way came from the presumably long defunct Starlight Conspiracy .  Apparently hailing from New ...

From 1993.  This band's third and potentially final album.  Can't think of a classier way to go out. Hear

Thought this would tie in well with recent events, not to mention what I posted a couple nights back.  This was an easy sell for me back in ...

News none of us were quite expecting went out late last week announcing Pete Shelley , frontman for the Buzzcocks (and a solo artist in h...