Wilfully Obscure

From 2000.  One of the first great albums of the twenty-first century. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear  

Though it does take me awhile (in this case almost five years!) I eventually make it through the mounds of bargain bin CDs I buy, and just a...

Arriving in the London new music scene in 1979, Classic Nouveaux were born a few minutes late to be forerunners of the soon-to-be-ample got...

Hard to believe this one has reached the thirty year mark. One of '91s most transcendent and immersive albums. This is the 2005 reissue ...

According to the mighty Discogs, there are/were no less than fifty bands running amok at one point or another named The Unknown .  I wouldn...

This was a sweet dollar bin surprise I snagged a few years ago (not that you see many quality dollar vinyl bins anymore, but I digress).  Pe...

No clue other than the title. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear  

Well, another week of embarrassingly minimal content for ya'll. Sorry folks.  Dramarama .  No strangers to this page , but I haven't...

I was reminded this weekend that it's the twentieth anniversary of this one.  My favorite album of 2001, a debut so good the band didn...

Not to be confused with a covers band of the same name, this DT and the Shakes called the environs of Washington D.C. home and were mostly ...

By the looks of the record sleeve you might surmise Expando Brain weren't competing on the same wavelength as contemporaries U2 or Tear...

From 1994. One of the best (and perhaps one of the only) non-sellout major label debut albums I've encountered. **Please do not reveal a...

Ok, so right up front this is not an official releases, so lower whatever expectations you may have down a notch or three.  Even if you'...

It's difficult to fathom spending five years (presumably anyway) preparing and perfecting one album, and later desperately wanting a do-...

A sheik update on keyboard-driven pop, circa 2015.  **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Even for someone like myself who gorges himself on "fringe" bands from the last century, even my fringes have fringes, so to speak...

So yeah, there was a time when major labels (in this case Geffen) would not only take a chance on (relatively) unknown quantities but even c...

A solid career summation of these one-time Minneapolis mainstays. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Vauxhall Seraux were a New Jersey trio that are/were seemingly impervious to search engines, though the music on this EP isn't quite as...

Ok, I've got something a little different for you this week. How about an entirely, 100% unreleased album, and an ep by the same band t...

Borrowing their moniker from a fairly renown George Eliot poem and once containing drummer Danny Benair (a future Three O'Clock alum) i...

We have another cold case on our hands, this one potentially hailing from Ireland, but not verifiable.  Led by a somewhat androgynous soundi...

They say the squeakiest wheel gets the oil.  In the mid-80s, in large part thanks to MTV, it was pretty easy to discern who was besotted wit...

From 1987. This album was a revelation for me at the time, and got the ball rolling, so to speak.  **Please do not reveal artist in comments...

Reptile House slithered out of Baltimore, MD, circa the mid-80s and boasted enough visibility and talent for Dischord Records to take notic...