http://www.theworldforgot.com Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:00:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Flipsyde's old album, 2005's We The People (amazon) (itunes), at times sounds like a mashup between spitfire hip hop lyrics and genuine pop music.  Sometimes their style drifts more towards the pop spectrum, and other times it honestly sounds like Grits somehow got mixed up with Ben Gibbard.  I think ... http://www.theworldforgot.com/2008/07/24/flipsyde/ Wakey!Wakey!, aka one of my favorite acts out of NYC, was recently behind the keyboard again.  Mike Grubbs decided to record yet another of his live sets and make it available for free as a downloadable album.  This time he was playing at The Bowery Ballroom and he came away ... http://www.theworldforgot.com/2008/07/23/wakeywakey-7/ I'm back from my little three week vacation and better than ever.  Well, that's if being better than ever entails being sore, slightly over tanned, a tired like never before.  Lake Michigan was brilliant as always {and seriously, the East Coast of said lake trumps any and all attempts by ... http://www.theworldforgot.com/2008/07/21/lenka/ Hello dear readers, this is your captain speaking.  For the following three weeks I'll be travelling and living it up on a little slice of summer vacation.  Due to these good times I most likely will not have access to the internet and thusly I will not have any new ... http://www.theworldforgot.com/2008/07/01/twf-is-off-on-vacation/ Well it's the end of another gorgeous month here in the heartland of the States.  Gasp, I am an American blogger.  I live in the armpit of America where nothing unusually awesome ever happens.  Which is probably why I have so much free time to listen to music and play ... http://www.theworldforgot.com/2008/06/30/botr-vol-07/ It's hard to choose only two songs to showcase Nathan Moomaw's latest album, 26 (itunes), due to the eclectic folk nature of the album.  Each song was written and recorded during one month of his twenty sixth year on the planet and each track has its own unique flavor and ... http://www.theworldforgot.com/2008/06/27/nathan-moomaw/ Awhile back I posted a few tracks I'd heard from the dynamic Californian duo who calls themselves The Dodos.  Finally I've come around to getting their entire album and I must say that it is brilliant.  From start to end there exists a certain coherency and consistency that is not ... http://www.theworldforgot.com/2008/06/26/the-dodos-2/ Dusty Brown is playing an album release show next Thursday, July 3rd, and a very talented friend of mine will be there to play a set as well.  If you are anywhere in the remote vicinity of the Mercury Lounge I strongly encourage you to go and treat yourself to ... http://www.theworldforgot.com/2008/06/25/zach-williams-live-july-3/ If you haven't heard the new album from Greg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, then you probably need to expand your daily blog reading diet to include more than just this lonely corner of the interwebs.  For those of you who are still in the dark Girl Talk stands alone atop ... http://www.theworldforgot.com/2008/06/24/girl-talk/ For Emma Forever Ago (amazon) (itunes), the first full length effort from Bon Iver, grabs hold of your mind with a subtle intimacy that is both comforting and quietly desperate. From the opening seconds of the first track Flume there exists a haunting quality to this album that remains ... http://www.theworldforgot.com/2008/06/20/bon-iver/ Ten years is a long time in any regard. Ten years is even longer when you're waiting for a band to finally live up their full potential. But looking back ten years isn't all that long to wait for an album as good as Nada Surf's latest, Lucky ... http://www.theworldforgot.com/2008/06/19/nada-surf/ Today is the day many of us have been waiting for, quite patiently I might add, for a few months. Well the wait is over, the new album Viva la Vida (amazon) (itunes) is out, and the verdict is in. Granted it might take a few months of ... http://www.theworldforgot.com/2008/06/17/coldplay-3/ The Box Social is a four piece band out of Wisconsin and to be honest they're pretty much the same as countless other contemporary radio friendly American rock hitting the airwaves right now. I would like to point out that they're pretty much the same, but not exactly the ... http://www.theworldforgot.com/2008/06/16/the-box-social/