Wilfully Obscure

In 1996, the disk I’m featuring this week was the best thing this side of a new Archers of Loaf album (and we even managed to get one of t...

Alright, finally time to stare down the elephant in the room.  Roughly 80% to 90% of the download links on this site have EXPIRED.  Some fiv...

Bargain bin find here, and a slightly above average one at that. Hailing from the UK and containing a guy from Fischer-Z ( Steve Skolnik ) ...

The entire discography from one of the Deep South's best kept secrets, spanning 1984-87. One critic described them as "Earth's ...

When Urge Overkill parted ways in 1997, due largely in part to a reported falling out between the key nuclei of Nash Kato and Eddie "...

Though this Westfield, NJ setup (who recorded this album as a six-piece) is potentially still playing live gigs, their discography ceased in...

I just missed the two-decade anniversary of this one.  I didn't suspect this would be a timeless album upon it's release, but low an...

Definitely a good 'un, but as with the situation with scores of other records on this site, another sheer cold case. Released on San Fra...

Yet another record in my collection with an album jacket that's not so reflective of the music housed within. Was expecting indie rock o...

Music from 1988-89. The album featured is a tad uneven, but entails some genius moments. Appended to it are nine songs from surrounding sing...

No, I don't know if they named themselves after the Steely Dan tune, but I can assure you that Bad Sneakers don't sound a stitch li...

I'll try to get a full length onto this site sometime within the next twelve hours or so, but here's something to tide you over.  Ha...

A two-fer this week. The second and third albums from this New Orleans quartet, issued in 1983 and 1984, respectively.  **Please do not reve...

I've been toying with the idea of sharing this for what some seems like ages, but in reality it's been closer to a little over a yea...

From 2000.  Features Ted Leo as guest vocalist on two tracks. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

I had encountered this 7" with it's curious and charming looking sleeve multiple times before I finally dove in and claimed it a fe...

Bearing a sound that's thankfully not emblematic of their moniker, Quebec's Groovy Religion didn't fall into the trappings of ...

My favorite album from 2018, and at the time I would have said the best thing I'd heard in the last five years. It still might be, even ...

Alas, I'm still in the process of digitizing fresh vinyl for this site, but in the meantime I'd like to offer this - an early Cars p...

From 1996. Melancholy, guitar-laden histrionics cloaked in passionate prose and empathetic gestures. In plain English, this band was to die ...

No much time for a write-up today, but this one generally speaks for itself.  Since the mid-90s when I finally got the notion to investigati...

2021. A second year in a row that no one was quite expecting, and one that some of us hadn't preferred how it played out as it did, myse...

An officially released collection of demos cut in in preparation for a now renown 1993 album.  **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** ...

"...and Dig Circus is playing on Saturday (thank god)"                                                       -Ron Hawkins This pas...

The 2012 sophomore record where it all clicked into place for one of this past decade's most dazzlingly consistent indie contingents.  *...