Wilfully Obscure

From 1995. Even the "weakest" link in their catalog of stellar albums was superior to their competition's greatest work. **Ple...

Sometimes when I receive a request for a band I'm wholly unfamiliar with it can lead down a pretty rewarding rabbit hole.  Much as I dig...

The tale of fellow Wisconsinites Breck Burns and Scott Krueger began when the two met in the early '70s as teenagers, but the world (o...

From 2009. I make no apologies if I already shared this LP a few years ago. I've had so many songs from it lodged in my head over the pa...

Quality power pop coupled with rich Britpop resonance from 2008. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear  

Two young men, one young woman. What could possibly go wrong?  Sounds like the setup to some teenage comedy flick, right?  Guess again. It...

As the band's name suggests, Sextet were a six-piece, but aside from the music I can't tell you much of anything else. For synth-po...

From 1993. Everyone seems to celebrate this band's 1980s output. So far as I'm concerned they really excelled a decade later. Recomm...

The Perfect Vision ep I shared last year seemed to illicit a positive reaction, so here's another feast for your retinas, if not your ...

From 1997. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear  

On what could be their lone LP, Mick & Co. don't stir up a Maelstrom, or even much cacophonous noise, but ironically enough, simply...

With a name like Cassette this has to be lo-fi bedroom pop...right?  Think again. This veritably un-searchable indie rock quantity, evident...

The bonus disc and only the bonus disc of the 2011 expanded edition of this 1998 masterpiece. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** H...

There's not much info, if any to be had on this presumably North Carolina based quartet, whose self-released ep may be their lone surviv...

The (almost) complete discography from a bygone D.C. area band that ran in the same circles as Fugazi and Soul Side...yet sonically gravitat...

This one was scarce enough not to earn a page on Discogs, but whatever.  Coincidentally or not, this cassette compilation was released in t...

A compendium of rarities, unreleased tracks, b-sides and other assorted nonsense (literally). **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** H...

Intensive Care were North Carolina denizens yet even though they were a product of the tar heel state in the mid to late '80s, I'm ...

Last week we received some difficult news that half of the songwriting team of this band passed away. They never made any inroads with the m...

Judging by the relative popularity of the Donner Party's two CD anthology I shared almost ten years (and the number of requests I'...

Yet another salvo that would mesh just fine thank you very much with the scores, if not hundreds of collegiate indie rock troupes I've p...

A debut from 2005.  England's answer to Interpol?  Guess I'm not feeling to adventurous this week.  Hope you'll enjoy nonetheles...

This is the second record I've shared by Ontario quartet, but unlike '87s Every Soul's House , Seat of the Writing man isn'...

From 2014. We might never have it as good from this band again. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

I went into this one a bit blind, but given it's $6 price tag I can't really complain, considering Quality Time has a few redeeming...