Wilfully Obscure

A compilation capturing the brunt (but not everything) this overlooked C86 proposition put out into the world.   **Please do not reveal arti...

Realistically, I could have shared this one eons ago, but I just kept putting it off.  If someone else out there in blogland got to Souleate...

In what might be the first time I've featured music from a strictly instrumental combo, my working knowledge of Bloomington, IN's Dr...

From 2006.  **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

I'm sharing a record titled It's a Wonderful Life, and it ain't even Christmas.  This one did come out forty years ago however,...

 A killer, not to mention concussive, sophomore effort from 1992. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

*Sigh.* Just a damn black and white sticker?  Really? The cherry red colored wax was a sharp move, but I still think a picture sleeve of som...

I recall buying this one in a rather large lot of power pop/indie 45s but I only gave it a concerted listen about a week ago.  Not to be con...

Released in 2013, and encompassing material recorded 1981-87, this singles and b-sides compilation superseded that of a similar collection i...

I did something this week that I don't think I've done in ages - I broke the cellophane on an unopened 44-year old record. Just thin...

An often impeccable sophomore album from '86. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Yet another one I took a sheer gamble on.  Went into this one expecting something along the lines of Shoes, Rubinoos, heck maybe even the Ba...

These Atlanta-area denizens took a seemingly unnecessary risk in going with such a hokey moniker, one that doesn't do justice to their o...

From 2002. A blind bargain bin find that really paid off.  **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Suppose there was an album so impressive that someone named their music blog after it?  In the heyday of the "sharity" blogospher...

From 1993.  Was saddened to learn that one of the co-founders of this band left us last week. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** H...

"Weirdo Libido" is likely the closest the Lime Spiders ever came to digging into real pay dirt, if only for the fact that the tun...

For a bunch of Brit punks, Red Letter Day weren't particularly obnoxious, but it seems that was hardly their m.o.. I can't quite en...

I'm a bit tardy in posting my annual "condensed" adaption of a year's worth of uploads to this page, so I hope you'll ...

Post-punk from 1986 that's far more moving than my lyrical clue might portend. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

Happy New Year, and welcome to night eight. I was debating what I was going to offer for the finale, and was on the fence about this one, as...

Is this my favorite retro discovery of the year?  Hard to say, as even in the eye of the beholder these things are difficult to quantify.  A...

The number of homegrown various artists collections compiling rare, turn-of-the-decade power pop and punk singles that seemingly materialize...

This is a sad fu%kin' blog post.  I'll be lucky if I don't bust out crying.  In fact, 2024 was a tremendously sad f'n year o...

Yet another band I haven't featured on here, and obviously of a higher stature...and not-quite-obscure.  When I made a conscious decisio...