Wilfully Obscure

Been sitting on this one for awhile.  You can attach almost another ten years on top of that, as I patiently waited for an affordable copy o...

From 1978.  Every band has to have a start.  This was theirs.  **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Hard to believe this band's first and third albums were so utterly polarizing (to my ears anyway).  In fact I don't have a solid ide...

This week it's a noise pop pearl from 2015.  **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Ultimately for the Big Idea , the record label they found themselves on (for what appears to be their only album) would soon gain considerab...

More commonly spelled Airstrip One (but what's in name anyway, ya know?) this UK batch sound as if they quickly absorbed the earliest...

From 1989.  A relatively common one this week.  Then again, this quartet's prior album was so lackluster and uninspired, many of you lik...

It's harder to start off an album with a bigger bang than "Arsenic Bubblegum," a tune which beckons Cheap Trick's punky ...

I can't profess to know what a " Glory Box " precisely is, but if someone were to place this record in a carton of some sort a...

In 2008 this long-running combo released a live DVD, bundled with a makeshift best-of collection.  It was only available as a Spanish impo...

This isn't the first Spoon related post I've done, but it could be the last considering there isn't a whole lot to plunder tha...

"Cold cases" are par for the course for a lot of '80s presentations I offer you, and to a certain extent even records from t...

I just missed the fifteen year anniversary of this one by a couple weeks, darn it.  Anyway, this may have been my favorite album of 2005, an...

When the Buzzcocks (specifically the songwriting nucleus of Steve Diggle and the recently departed Pete Shelley ) reconnected in 1989 afte...

Besides token entries on Discogs and YouTube , I'm pretty certain another music blog (now likely defunct) shared files of this one.  Ev...

Yet another gem of a disk that I had zero awareness of when it initially hit the racks.  Not that it caught fire, or to my knowledge was eve...

The "myth" of the Beach Boys once long-unreleased SMiLE album loomed larger than the music enshrined in it's grooves, if onl...

This LOUD, but sophisticated album of indie rock distinction is celebrating the quarter century mark this year.  And to think, this was on...

Before the weekend is over, I'm going to try to get something resembling a full length up, but here's a loooong belated followup to ...

This UK band's 2016 sophomore effort is a spot-on slice of Brit pop revivalism that almost rivals what I was hearing a quarter century...

Hey folks.  Not much time for a write-up tonight, but for those of you who've been visiting these pages for a spell know that I'm a ...

Yet another blind purchase that proved to be a far different animal than what I anticipated.  There's virtually not a "pop" li...

A 1997 platter of raw indie guitar rock...that technically wasn't on an indie label at all.  **Please do not reveal artist in commen...

If you go by Wiki's analysis Portland's coed Caveman Shoestore were "avant prog" specimens.  Perhaps their full lengths (...

Hailing from the college towns of Ithaca and Oswego in New York's central/southern tier The Choice were responsible for this dandy, p...