Wilfully Obscure

A Chanukah-worthy return to Mystery Mondays.  This one might as well count as night nine.  It's a two-fer from a should've-been-hu...

And so we bring Chanukah to a close with a veritable doozy.  If you're at all surprised I went with XTC to close things outs, that'...

This isn't a rerun, rather a continuation of the Powerpearls series of compilations I shared three years ago.  In 2016 I made volumes 1...

Fifteen seconds is all it took to sell me on The Big Picture .  I found The Homeless House while browsing a shop in Akron, OH last year.  T...

Alright ladies and gentlemen.  Welcome to night five of Chanukah.  Since this entry concerns six singles it might have more sense to wait un...

They're not often spoken of, but in the rare instances The Necessaries name pops up, it's almost always with a certain amount of re...

Welcome to night three.  Now, after this trifecta of short form 12"s (EPs, duh) you might be asking yourself, is this really the best h...

Now for some unreleased stuff.  Teenage Fanclub .  I'm a bigger fan than you might think.  Up until now I haven't shared much by the...

It all has to start somewhere, and in this case "it" is my affection for power pop.  Thing was, back in the early '80s I was a...

That time is upon folks.  You guessed it, our annual tradition of eight consecutive days of extra-special, BFD uploads of my choicest r...

If you've frequented this corner of cyberspace for the last five years or so the name Lannie Fowers is bound to be familiar.  From ni...

The best album of 1999? **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Australia's long departed Dugites were one of my foremost rewarding retro-discoveries of 2019.  I shared their 1980 self-titled debut ...

Almost seventy of 'em, based on your requests.  Enjoy! Summer Suns - Greatest Catherine Wheel - four eps Rich Kids - Burning Soun...

The liner notes to Cherry Red's thorough and well-assembled canonization of the late '70s not-so-chart-ascending punk-era rock act...