Wilfully Obscure

A saucy debut from 1991. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

It should come as no surprise that a band named the Golden Calgarians hailed from Calgary, Alberta. With that near-obvious fact out of the ...

Had a request for this one.  Traditionally I'm not exactly agog over straight-up AOR rock from the '80s, or just about any decade....

As Dan Vallor's liner notes in Across the Barrier... smartly advise, to regard this sprawling 24-song collection as a "lost" ...

From 1998.  **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Sorry of it seems like I've taken another sabbatical.  I've got to work on giving you more content than I have been.  These are phen...

Debut LP from 1978. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Five decades is a long time to be playing the rock and roll game.  Yes, technically that's how long the Pedaljets career has spanned......

Sorry for another "drought" folks.  Haven't had much time to digitize lately, so I went with one of the dwindling out-of-print...

2007 compilation featuring no less than 31 key tracks from this band's catalog, albeit not always the album versions.  Per the liner not...

If Quinn the Eskimo strike you as a "lost" band from the Brit C86 indie pop scene...that's pretty much because they were.  ...

I'm overdue for a Mystery Monday quadfecta of EPs. Including is a folder of YouTube audio rips from band who occasionally changed their ...

Was a bit too taken aback this week to post anything due to the passing of this little guy.  Hopefully I'll have something next week,...

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

This may not be my most crucial wax I share this year, but I do enjoy it.  For a band hailing from Dublin these guys didn't sound a stit...

Despite hailing from San Diego, Friends of Ghosts sounded like they were the stuff of thoroughly British stock.  Frontman D. Andrew Marri...

From 1989.  Rock that pops...but not necessarily power pop. Hear

Sorry I haven't set you up with much in the way of fresh sounds this week, but hopefully this compensate. In fact, I was thinking abou...

From 2017.  Call it what you will. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Way back in 2011 when I addressed Timco's Friction Tape LP, I mentioned a collection of their singles would be forthcoming.  Well, a...

I keep finding great unsung Austin, TX bands from a good 30+ years ago and though I don't know much about Ring Theatre's collecti...

The 1981 and 1983 records from a post-punk colossus that as of last week appears to be no more. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!...

If Minor Alps haven't made it onto your radar by now, it's safe to say it's going to remain that way, as the duo of Matthew Caw...

This Liverpoolite brother act ( Rob and Alan Fennah ) had only negligible chart success in the mid-80s, despite bearing a smart yet access...

For an artist who arguably peaked on his first two albums, Marshall Crenshaw has remarkably not pumped out a subsequent steady stream of di...