Wilfully Obscure

Dare I say this is one music scene who've literally decided to celebrate themselves?   For the uninitiated, Rain Parade, The Dream Syn...

Despite having ties to a fairly prominent indie label, I.R.S., I hadn't been exposed to The Daisies until just a few years ago.  Typica...

From 2005, but I won't give much else away about this album. Hear

Yet another lost cause when it comes to surveying pertinent info on Google, but a sheer treat for the ears.  The seemingly background-less ...

This one is almost worthy of a Chanukah upload, even if it's not an out-and-out revelation.  Truth be told, Beat Feet are something of ...

From 2004.  There isn't a moment of this album that I don't enjoy. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

When I started this site umpteenth years ago, it wasn't exactly my intention to feature albums housing such mundane titles as "Ba...

You say you've never heard of a band from San Antonio, TX?  You have now, and as luck would have it they were a good one.  Meet Lung Ove...

Of all the high pedigree indie-rock bands to spill a little ink on a major label recording contract in the late '80s and '90s, Sou...

From 1992.  The magnum opus from this UK act that were thankfully not part and parcel of the Britpop movement.  This is the import edition ...

This bygone combo from the suburbs of the Twin Cities offered express delivery to the same power pop sweet spot contemporaries The Rembran...

Recently had a request for this one, and an interesting pick at that.  Taking Look Around's album sleeve at face value you might reckon...

Everyone raves about the debut  - and rightfully so.  But this follow-up came in at a remarkably close second. **Please do not reveal ar...

So I was never quite bitten by the House of Large Sizes bug, as it were.  Then again I know of no one else that was either, so maybe I...

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...