Cake Shop LP

Obits formed in Brooklyn in 2006 around Rick Froberg, fresh off Hot Snakes and Drive Like Jehu, with Sohrab Habibion and Greg Simpson rounding out the band. They played their first-ever show at Cake Shop on the Lower East Side in January 2008, months before Sub Pop signed them. Garage-leaning and tightly wound, Obits put out three albums before splitting in 2015; Froberg died in 2023. Outer Battery Records is now working through the catalog on vinyl, sharp, no-frills guitar rock worth a second look.