Wilfully Obscure

You might want to think of this as a ninth day of Chanukah since I'm giving you an entire box set this week. Three disks containing the ...

I DID IT YA BASTIDS! And it only took NINE YEARS!  That's right, it hasn't been since roughly 2013 or 2014 that every single downloa...

You'd think there wouldn't be a whole lot left in the vault. Cheap Trick first threw the doors of their metaphorical clearinghouse ...

You might consider this to be a follow-up or sister post to a collection of Tommy Keene demos I shared all the way back in 2009, back when...

I don't think I've talked about this one yet. Over the years, from what I've observed (namely, archived show flyers from '80...

In the early '90s, it felt like my cup was just starting to brim...but it hadn't runneth over just yet.  So let's see, there was...

It never ceases to amaze me how far a record label will go to suppress or outright kill-off the memory of an artist formerly on their roster...

So I haven't assembled a bundle of Chanukah singles in about three years.  Why? Well, it's not for lack of content to share, rather ...

Welcome to the first night. It was long ago indeed.  So long in fact. that the album we're considering wasn't just merely released t...

"Seconds pass slowly, and years go flying by," so sayeth one of the many poetry gods I listen to (now if only he'd release his...

Has it really been 34 years since a gaggle of us American teens/twenty-somethings were transfixed by The Mighty Lemon Drops music video for...

Actually, that should probably read all 2007-2013 links have been restored, because I tackled the first three years of this site about a we...

From 1982. The first of four albums. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

I'm not sure when, where, or even why I picked this one up. Certainly not because I like rockabilly, which was undoubtedly part and parc...

When the news went our earlier this week that The Clean's Hamish Kilgour was found deceased a few days after being reported missing, t...

Four eps, many of them quite recent.  **Please do not reveal artists in comments!**  Hear

This has been a long time coming folks.  For years anywhere between 80% to 90% of the download links on the these pages have expired. For th...

Sorry for another sparse week in terms of posting goes, but I should have a big announcement to make later on Sunday that will make everyone...

From 1997. Their third album, and while it doesn't outdo their previous LPs, there are some splendid tunes to be had here. **Please do n...

Eyes Wide Smile is a mini-album masquerading as a full length, and isn't even a "proper" LP, rather a compilation of early de...

A 2016 joint from down under. Dream pop tempered with jangly guitarchitecture. This is downright glorious.  **Please do not reveal artist in...

They say that you dance with the one who brought you. In 1988, Soul Asylum along with the likes of such varied names as Wire, Killing Joke,...

Think back to 1991, from both an international and British perspective. There was war in the world. A prolonged recession was around the cor...

From 1988. Too bad I slept on these New York noiseniks when they were originally around. I'm discovering a goldmine in their back catalo...

Hope the title of this one doesn't scare anyone off. Arti Rhythm , who evidently called Holland home, were steeped in pub rock more than...