Tanlines: Mixed Emotions - Tanlines are an electro pop duo from New York City. Lately the 80s have influenced some of today's more talented electro artists and have made for some pretty interesting sounds and interpretations. Tanlines aren't any different taking cues from multiple 80s artists as diverse as Depeche Mode and Peter Gabriel, but it doesn't end there... Sure, evidence of Peter Gabriel and Depeche Mode are found all over this record, but they also have something of their own going here too. The clues are less [...]
Since I ended my first day of SXSW kind of early, I knew I had lost time to make up. You see, unless waiting on line to see people like Jack White, Grimes, or Fiona Apple is your forte, it's best to get to shows early or witness bands you're "heard of" but never actually "heard." Which is something I've said to people more than I care to admit. Wednesday was about catching bands that I've been meaning to see for quite some time now and I wasn't disappointed. Crooks [...]
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Another SXSW has come and gone, but we've still got another few interviews to bring your way before we call it quits. Today we've got one from Hooray for Earth who came into town last week and apparently turned some heads with their live show. Band member Chris Principe took the time to answer our round of SXSW questions for us and we greatly appreciate it. Check out his answers after the jump. ATH: What is the most challenging thing about being a [...]
"In their eyes I would be strange and ragged and like the prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark word the only word I had was 'wow'." - Kerouac The greatest spectacle in music (I've heard they have movies too) has just wrapped up and for all it's brilliance and mind [...]
We're still recovering from SXSW (and we left early). The week long madness of music and drinking does get tiresome, but alongside good friends at Guns In The Sun, Hit City USA, and MFG, we presented an awesome showcase on Friday featuring some of our favorite artists around right now. It started with Harriet, the on the rise Los Angeles group powered by vocalist Alex Casnoff and the deserved hit "We Slept With All Mothers." It continued onwards with heavy sets from punk visitors The Shrine and The Men, crowd pleasing hip hop by A.Dd+, epic anthems from [...]
[Not very good photos in low light by acidjack. The recording is much better than the photos] I first saw Zambri back in January of 2010 at Rock Shop (which predates their "first show" according to their Wikipedia page by about 8 months, but anyway), when sisters Cristi Jo and Jessica Zambri were still working out the kinks of their live act and presentation - though they were already pretty compelling. By the time hi and lo and I caught them on this night at Glasslands nearly two years later, [...]
Here's a huge announcement: Quit Mumbling, Guns In The Sun, Hit City USA, & MFG present Spring Break, an unofficial SXSW event. Collectively, we're bringing you some of our favorite music from the last two years. The Men's sophomore release Open Your Heart has quickly jumped to the top of our favorite releases so far this year, with a killer tracklisting of melodic, full throttle punk rock. By year's end, we are sure this will still be on rotation, and for that reason, we can't wait to host them. Hooray [...]
We already announced The Beehive SXSW , but wait, there's still more from us down at SXSW! We've joined forced with fellow New York City dwellers Cantora Records , Pianos , Modern Art Records , Round Hill Music , and Black Bell Records and put together a big ole day drinking party we're calling BANNERS. BANNERS is a free day party sponsored by Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum featuring Hooray For Earth , Stepdad , Fort Lean , [...]
New music here, new music there, new music everywhere! By now you've probably read my headline and you know where this is going, so let's get right to it: The Atlas Moth - whose 2011 record An Ache For the Distance was my absolute most favoritest album of the year - have followed up their [...]
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En serio, wtf? The Atlas Moth covereando Hooray For Earth ? esta es una de esas cosas que jamas me hubiera imaginado pero por otra parte, The Atlas Moth ya se ha aventurado a hacer covers aun mas extraños como uno que hicieron hace un par de años de "California Dreamin'" de The Mamas And The Papas. Pero bueno, esto digamos que es un tanto diferente ya que ambas bandas han estado sonando bastante en los ultimos 12 meses y seguramente muchos de ustedes estan familiarizados con alguna u otra banda ya que Hooray For Earth [...]
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"I was going to town with this mod'd delay and tape deck", Hooray For Earth 's frontman Noel Heroux wrote in the track description that he uploaded a few hours ago via the band's official Soundcloud . Being quite different from the punchy drums and blown out synths we're normally used to hear from Hooray For Earth, this psych-electronic, experimental track is seriously worth a listen if you feel like being in a zoned-out mood, as he wrote us himself. Whatever this guy (or his band) does, I can't deny it's done with utter perfection each bloody time. [...]
Hooray for Earth - "True Loves" . The notion with the laser-guns is that you'd get this device, point it at someone, and make that someone disappear. They'd be detonated, demolished, turned into spray. The first laser-guns were gigantic, big as rooms, but the scientists were certain that they'd improve. The laser-guns would get smaller, small as guns, and space-cowboys'd be able to carry them in holsters, swaggery. Unfortunately the laser-guns never got smaller. The technology just didn't scale down. So we haul our laser-guns, big as rooms. in wagons the size of dance-floors. They are heavy and cumbersome. They [...]
I fully understand that my best of the year list is usually published far after many of the hip new kids. The World Forgot has long been a dessert blog, if you will, that might not provide enough sustenance on a day to day basis to get you through life, but I do provide a sweet finish. On top of that I've been able to listen through all of the albums I heard in 2011 for an extra month. In all reality this is the definitive list. Enjoy the music. 01 : Fleet [...]
Tweet vaso link Here is the latest video from Hooray For Earth, off my third favorite record of 2011.
Editor's Note Happy New Year! Some of you are probably wondering what happened to us. Well work, family, and of course organizing our little (not so little anymore) variety show Snob Theater has taken quite a bit of time away from the website. We've had probably the best year so far and I'm happy to announce my favorite records of 2011 to launch the reboot of Kata Rokkar. I don't review albums at all but i do listen to a shitload and it's been a great and surprising year for new music. [...]
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