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Friday, February 01, 2008
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2/1/08 Gyroscope with Jon Kranz was an archived show
Category: Music
Gyroscope with Jon Kranz is on Hiatus for 2 weeks. New programs will resume on Friday, 2/15/08.
If you want your music or clips from your films or recordings of your poetry to appear on the show, please send Jon an email via MySpace that contains links to digital downloads of your stuff.
Archive Gyroscope with Jon Kranz Playlist for Friday 03/10/2006 9:00 PM
Pavement - Elevate Me Later - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - 1994 Matador
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage - Joe's Garage Pt. 1 - 1979/1991 Zappa/Rykodisk
Queens of the Stone Age - Do It Again - Songs for the Deaf - 2002 Interscope
UMA - Ghosts - Farewell - 1997 Refuge
9:15 PM
Zero 7 - When It Falls - When It Falls - 2004 Ultimate Dilemma
Jake Gyllenhaal - Halloween Frightmare - Donnie Darko OSt - 2002 Enjoy
Mum - On the Old Mountain Radio - Please Smile My Nose Bleed - 2001 Morr
Led Zeppelin - Tangerine - Led Zeppelin III - 1970 Atlantic
9:30 PM
Coldcut - Man in a Garage - Sound Mirrors - 2006 Ninja Tune
Grand National - Talk Amongst Yourselves - Kicking the National Habit - 2004/2006 Sunday Best/Recall
William Orbit - Spiral - Hello Waveforms - 2006 Sanctuary
9:45 PM
Le Volume Courbe (Charlotte Marionneau) - I Ain't Got No...I Got Life - I Killed My Best Friend - 2006 Astralwerks
Robin Williams/Jeff Bridges - Naked in the Park - The Fisher King - 1991 MGM
10:00 PM
Keren Ann - Midi Dans Le Salon De La Duchesse (Midday In The Show Of The Duchess) - Nolita - 2004 Blue Note
Jamie Cullum - I Could Have Danced All Night - Twentysomething - 2004 Blue Note
Diana Krall - I've Changed My Address - The Girl in the Other Room - 2004 Blue Note
Jon Kranz - Fill In the Blanks - The Circular File - 2006 i8paste
King Crimson - Happy Family - Lizard - 1974 EG
10:15 PM
Smashing Pumpkins - Tristessa - Gish - 1991 Caroline
Smashing Pumpkins - Geek USA - Siamese Dream - 1993 Virgin
Smashing Pumpkins - Thirty-Three - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - 1995 Virgin
Smashing Pumpkins - Appels and Oranjes - Adore - 1997 Virgin
Smashing Pumpkins - Untitled - Machina - 2000 Virgin
10:30 PM
Cepia - 1. Malcesine - Pearl EP - 2006 GIDG/Ghostly International
Cepia - 2. Our Bones - Pearl EP - 2006 GIDG/Ghostly International
Cepia - 3. Salt Field - Pearl EP - 2006 GIDG/Ghostly International
Cepia - 4. Pearl - Pearl EP - 2006 GIDG/Ghostly International
Cepia - 5. As - Pearl EP - 2006 GIDG/Ghostly International
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Sunday, February 03, 2008
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My son is born!!!
Current mood:  ecstatic
Category: Life
My son was born this past week. He is the most amazing and beautiful thing I have ever laid eyes on. Being a natural cynic, it's been so surprising to see how quickly all of that evaporated when I saw him, smelled him and held him.
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The Optimist LP
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Turin Brakes
Release date: 13 August, 2001
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
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1/25/08 Gyroscope with Jon Kranz Playlist
Current mood:  electric
Category: Music
1/25/08 Gyroscope with Jon Kranz Playlist10:00pm
DJ Food - Dub Lion - Big Noise: A Mambo Inn Compilation - 1995 Hannibal
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Sweet Pain - Night Song - 1995 Realworld
De Phazz - Jim the Jinn - Death by Chocolate - 2001 Universal Int'l
10:15pm
Rachid Taha - Garab - Made in Medina - 2001 Ark 21
Khaled - Didi (funk club) - Khaled - 1991 Cohiba
Miro - La Voix Du Vaurien - The Truth About Charlie OST - 2002 Epic
10:30pm
Young Holt Trio - Wack Wack - Wack Wack - 1966 Brunswick Records
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - Beans and Cornbread - Let The Good Times Roll: The Anthology 1938-1953 - 1999 MCA
Nina Simone - Feeling Good - I Put a Spell On You - 1965 Mercury
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine - Just As I Am - 1971 Sussex
10:45pm
Bossacucanova (w/Carlos Lyra) - Influencia do Jazz - The Now Sound of Brazil - 2003 Ziribuiboom
David Bowie - Queen Bitch - Hunky Dory - 1972 RCA
The Fields - You Bring This On Yourself - Everything Last Winter - 2007 Atlantic
11:00pm
Cantinero - That Guy - Championship Boxing - 2004 Artemis
Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills and Far Away - Houses of the Holy - 1973 Atlantic
Pearl Jam - Given to Fly - Yield - 1998 Epic
11:15pm
Black Mountain - Bright Lights - In the Future - 2008 Jagjaguwar
11:30pm
Tall Firs - Hairdo - Too Old to Die Young - 2008 Ecstatic Peace
Mezzanine Owls - Snowglobe - Mezzanine Owls - 2008 self-released
Daturah - Warmachines - Daturah - 2005 Graveface
11:45pm
(fill) Sven Libaek - Shark Attack Theme - The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou OST - 2004 Hollywood
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In the Future
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Black Mountain
Release date: 22 January, 2008
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Friday, January 18, 2008
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1/18/08 Gyroscope with Jon Kranz Playlist
Current mood:  optimistic
Category: Music
1/18/08 Gyroscope with Jon Kranz Playlist10:00pm
(Seattle, Washington)
Say Hi to Your Mom - Northwestern Girls - The Wishes And The Glitch - 2008 Euphobia/self-released (03-05-08 @ The Boot - Norfolk,VA)
Say Hi to Your Mom - Toil and Trouble - The Wishes And The Glitch - 2008 Euphobia/self-released
Say Hi to Your Mom - Zero to Love - The Wishes And The Glitch - 2008 Euphobia/self-released
Say Hi to Your Mom - These Fangs - Impeccable Blahs - 2006 Euphobia/self-released
Say Hi to Your Mom - Let's Talk About Spaceships - Numbers & Mumbles - 2004 Euphobia/self-released
10:15pm
(Athens, GA) "Think Superchunk meets the Replacements."
The Whigs - Right Hand on My Heart - Mission Control - 2008 ATO (02-28-08: Charlottesville, VA)
Girl In A Coma - Clumsy Sky - Both Before I'm Gone - 2008 Blackhearts Record
Iron & Wine - Innocent Bones - The Shepard's Dog - 2008
Kevin Tighe, Gordon Clapp, Nancy Mette - Prettiest Piece of Mountain Trash - Matewan - 1987 Artisan Entertainment
Jim White - Crash Into The Sun - Transnormal Skiperoo - 2008 Luakabop
10:35pm
(Portland, OR)
Panther - Puerto Rican Jukebox - 14kt God - 2008 Kill Rock Stars
(San Francisco, CA)
The Dodos - Fools - Visiter - 2008 Frenchkiss
Headlights - Cherry Tulips - Some Racing, Some Stopping - 2008 Polyvinyl Records
(Los Angeles, CA)
Caroline - All I Need (Owen Vallis Mix) - Murmurs Mixes - 2007 Temporary Residence Ltd.
10:55pm
(Baltimore, MD)
Beach House - Gila - Devotion - 2008 Carpark
Kaki King - 2 O'Clock - Dreaming of Revenge - 2008 Velour Music Group
(Asheville, NC)
Tyler Ramsey - Ships - Long Dream About Swimming Across the Sea V. 1 - 2008 Echo Mountain Records (Jan 21 2008 the norva Norfolk, VA)
11:00pm
(Chicago, IL)
Mahjongg - Problems - Kontpab - 2008 K Records
(Brooklyn, NY)
The Epochs - Opposite Sides - The Epochs - 2008 ?
DJ Bitman - My Computer is Funk - The Latin Bitman - 2007 Nacional Records
(Sydney, Australia)
The Presets - My People (DIM Remix) - My People EP - 2007 Modular
11:30pm
(Birmingham, AL)
Wild Sweet Orange - Wrestle With God - Whale EP - 2007 Nervous Blood/Tao
Midlake - Roscoe (acoustic) - Oak and Julian EP - 2007 Bella Union
Love and Rockets - Motorcycle - Love and Rockets - 1989 RCA
11:50pm
(brooklyn, NY) (Jan. 29th)
Dub Trio - Bay vs. Leonard - Another Sound is Dying - 2008 ipecac
Kate Tucker & The Sons of Sweden - In the End - Kate Tucker & The Sons of Sweden - 2007 Red Valise Recordings
(Ballard, WA)
(FILL) The Bad Plus - The Breakout - Motel - 2001 Heads Up
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Oracular Spectacular
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MGMT
Release date: 22 January, 2008
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Friday, January 11, 2008
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1/11/08 Playlist for Gyroscope with Jon Kranz
Current mood:  anxious
Category: Music
1/11/08 Playlist for Gyroscope with Jon Kranz10:00pm
Simon & Garfunkel - America - Bookends - 1968 Columbia
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Killing the Blues - Raising Sand - 2007 Rounder
Genesis - Watcher of the Skies - Live - 1973 Atco
10:15pm
Modeselektor - The White Flash (feat. Thom Yorke) - Happy Birthday! - 2007 Bpitch Control
The Fields - Feathers - Everything Last Winter - 2007 Atlantic
Sheila Chandra - Speaking in Tongues IV - The Zen Kiss - 1994 Realworld
Eric Matthews - Fried Out Broken Girl - It's Heavy in Here - 1995 Sub-Pop
10:30pm
Mae - Telescopes - Singularity - 2007 Capitol
Turin Brakes - Red Moon - JackInABox - 2005 Astralwerks
The Black Keys - Everywhere I Go - Thickfreakness - 2003 Fat Possum
The Books - The Lemon of Pink - The Lemon of Pink - 2003 Tomlab / Zebralution
10:45pm
Kate Bush - This Woman's Work - The Sensual World - 1989 Columbia
Cardinal - You've Lost Me There - Cardinal - 1994 Flydaddy
11:00pm
Band of Horses - Ode to LRC - Cease to Begin - 2007 Sub-Pop
Apparat - Hailin' from the Edge - Walls - 2007 Shitkatapult / Finetunes
Sondre Lerche - John, Let Me Go - Phantom Punch - 2007 Astralwerks
Super Furry Animals - Golden Retriever - Phantom Power - 2003 XL
11:15pm
House & Parish - This Curse - One, One-Thousand - 2007 Arena Rock
John Cleese, Graham Chapman - Confusion - The Meaning of Life - 1983 Warner Bros
Intramural - Rocket - This Is A Landslide - 2007 SDC
Foo Fighters - Statues - Foo Fighters - Long Road To Ruin - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace - 2007 DGC
Tegan & Sara - Hop a Plane - The Con - 2007 Sanctuary
Manchester Orchestra - Now That You're Home - I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child - 2006 Favorite Gentlemen Recording
11:30pm
Elliott Smith - Happiness - Live on World Cafe - 1999 WXPN
Simon & Garfunkel - A Poem on the Underground Wall - Live from New York City, 1967 - 2002 Columbia
M. Ward - Post-War - Post-War - 2006 Merge
11:45pm
The Roots - Long Time - Game Theory - 2006 Def Jam
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Friday, January 04, 2008
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1/4/08 Gyroscope with Jon Kranz Playlist
Current mood:  apathetic
Category: Music
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Cobblestone Jazz - What You Want - 23 Seconds - 2007 !K7
Wild Sweet Orange - Wrestle With God - Whale EP - 2007 Nervous Blood/Tao
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Passing Judgement:
There's a cute scene between Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton in the movie, "Something's Gotta Give". Keaton plays a successful 50-ish divorced playwright, while Nicholson is a 60-ish tycoon with a lothario reputation, who happens to be dating her daughter. Nicholson is forced to spend a few nights at Keaton's lavish weekend home, recovering from a mild cardiac episode.
He and Keaton start off loathing each other, but cool off sufficiently to have a flirtatious discussion late one evening in Keaton's kitchen, while she prepares a midnight snack.
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Q: SOT - Try Not to Rate My Answer...
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I know it's only a romantic comedy...but the scene rings true. Even in the most gentle, intimate moments, when people are offering their most acute and helpful snapshots of ourselves, we can't help passing judgement. We can't help ranking what they tell us. Lining it up as more pleasing or insightful than what we expected them to say...or what we think ourselves. Or what we have heard from others on the same subject.
There's nothing wrong with offering an opinion in the normal give and take of business disucussions. You want people to agree or disagree freely. But it's not appropriate to pass judgement when we specificaly ask people to voice their opinions about us. In those moments, when other people have passed judgement on advice they have solicited from me, my first thought is, "who died and made YOU the critic in-chief?"
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The Wombats - Little Miss Pipedream - The Wombats - 2007 WEA/14th Floor
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This is true even if you ask a question and agree wiht the answer. Conscientiously or not, the other person will register your agreement and he or she will remember it with great specificity when you DON'T agree the next time. The contrast is telling.
The person thinks, "What was wrong with what I said? Why did I bother?"
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Enigma - Why - le roi est mort vive le roi (The king is dead long live the king) - 1996 Virgin
The Raincoats - You Ask Why - Looking in the Shadows - 1996 DGC
Rachel Yamagata - Reason Why - Happenstance - 2004 RCA
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Tegan & Sara - Fix You Up - So Jealous - 2004 Sanctuary
Beatles - Think for Yourself - Rubber Soul - 1965 Capitol
Indigo Girls - Run - Despite Our Differences - 2006 Hollywood
Bee Gees - Run to Me - Their Greatest Hits: The Record - 2001 Reprise
Supergrass - Run - Life on Other Planets - 2003 Def Jam
Snow Patrol - Run - Final Straw - 2003 A&M
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Spearhead - Runfayalife - Home - 1994 Capitol
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American Music Club - Fearless - San Francisco - 1994 Reprise
FC Kahuna - Fear of Guitars - Machine Says Yes - 2002 Nettwerk
Robert Fripp & the League of Crafty Guitarists - A Fearful Symmetry - Live! - 1989 EG
Pink Floyd - Fearless - Meddle - 1971 Capitol
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Here's a question that you should clip out and tape to your bathroom mirror. It might save you some angst 15 years from now. The question is, What did you do back when interest rates were at their lowest in 50 years, crime was close to zero, great employees were looking for good jobs, computers made product development and marketing easier than ever, and there was almost no competition for good news about great ideas?
Many people will have to answer that question by saying, "I spent my time waiting, whining, worrying, and wishing." Because that's what seems to be going around these days. Fortunately, though, not everyone will have to confess to having made such a bad choice.
While your company has been waiting for the economy to rebound, Reebok has launched Travel Trainers, a very cool-looking lightweight sneaker for travelers. They are selling out in Japan -- from vending machines in airports!
While Detroit's car companies have been whining about gas prices and bad publicity for SUVs (SUVs are among their most profitable products), Honda has been busy building cars that look like SUVs but get twice the gas mileage. The Honda Pilot was so popular, it had a waiting list.
While Africa's economic plight gets a fair amount of worry, a little startup called Kickstart is actually doing something about it. The new income that its products generate accounts for 0.5% of the entire GDP of Kenya. How? It manufactures a $75 device that looks a lot like a StairMaster. But it's not for exercise. Instead, Kickstart sells the machine to subsistence farmers, who use its stair-stepping feature to irrigate their land. People who buy it can move from subsistence farming to selling the additional produce that their land yields -- and triple their annual income in the first year of using the product.
While you've been wishing for the inspiration to start something great, thousands of entrepreneurs have used the prevailing sense of uncertainty to start truly remarkable companies. Lucrative Web businesses, successful tool catalogs, fast-growing PR firms -- all have started on a shoestring, and all have been profitable ahead of schedule. The Web is dead, right? Well, try telling that to Meetup.com, a new Web site that helps organize meetings anywhere and on any topic. It has 200,000 registered users -- and counting.
Maybe you already have a clipping on your mirror that asks you what you did during the 1990s. What's your biggest regret about that decade? Do you wish that you had started, joined, invested in, or built something? Are you left wishing that you'd at least had the courage to try? In hindsight, the 1990s were the good old days. Yet so many people missed out. Why? Because it's always possible to find a reason to stay put, to skip an opportunity, or to decline an offer. And yet, in retrospect, it's hard to remember why we said no and easy to wish that we had said yes.
The thing is, we still live in a world that's filled with opportunity. In fact, we have more than an opportunity -- we have an obligation. An obligation to spend our time doing great things. To find ideas that matter and to share them. To push ourselves and the people around us to demonstrate gratitude, insight, and inspiration. To take risks and to make the world better by being amazing.
Are these crazy times? You bet they are. But so were the days when we were doing duck-and-cover air-raid drills in school, or going through the scares of Three Mile Island and Love Canal. There will always be crazy times.
So stop thinking about how crazy the times are, and start thinking about what the crazy times demand. There has never been a worse time for business as usual. Business as usual is sure to fail, sure to disappoint, sure to numb our dreams. That's why there has never been a better time for the new. Your competitors are too afraid to spend money on new productivity tools. Your bankers have no idea where they can safely invest. Your potential employees are desperately looking for something exciting, something they feel passionate about, something they can genuinely engage in and engage with.
You get to make a choice. You can remake that choice every day, in fact. It's never too late to choose optimism, to choose action, to choose excellence. The best thing is that it only takes a moment -- just one second -- to decide.
Before you finish this paragraph, you have the power to change everything that's to come. And you can do that by asking yourself (and your colleagues) the one question that every organization and every individual needs to ask today: Why not be great?
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The Postal Service - Such Great Heights - Give Up - 2003 Sub Pop
Madvillain - Great Day - Madvillainy - 2004 Stones Throw
Lou Reed - Beginning of a Great Adventure - New York - 1989 Warner Bros
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Zero 7 - Look Up - When It Falls - 2004 Elektra
Noel Gallagher - Don't Look Back in Anger - The Very Best of Mtv Unplugged - 2002 Universal
Ensemble, Michael McGrath & Tim Curry - Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life - Monty Python's Spamalot - 2005 Decca
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends Theme - Bookends - 1968 Columbia
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Wild Sweet Orange Ep
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Wild Sweet Orange
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Friday, December 28, 2007
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12/28/07 Gyroscope with Jon Kranz Playlist
Current mood:  bitchy
Category: Music
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Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy - Trees Outside the Academy - 2007 Ecstatic Peace
Orgone - Do Your Thing - The Killion Floor - 2007 Ubiquity
4Hero - Morning Child - Play with the Changes - 2007 Raw Canvas
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Mgmt - Time to Pretend - Oracular Spectacular - 2007 Columbia
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Lost, Picking Flowers in the Woods - Dandelion Gum - 2007 Graveface
Maps - It Will Find You - We Can Create - 2007 Mute
The Comas - Red Microphones - Spells - 2007 Yep Roc
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You Am I - Thuggery - Convicts - 2007 EMI
The Fratelli's - Flathead - Costello Music - 2006 Island
The Clutters - Surrender - Don't Believe a Word - 2007 Chicken Ranch
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Shout Out Out Out Out - Dude You Feel Electrical - Not Saying Just Saying - 2007 NRMLS WLCM
VHS or Beta - Burn It All Down - Bring On The Comets - 2007 Astralwerks
UNKLE - Hold My Hand (Ki:Theory Remix) - www.myspace.com/kitheory - 2007 www.myspace.com/kitheory
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The Noisettes - Scratch Your Name - What's the Time Mr. Wolf? - 2007 Vertigo
The Wombats - Kill the Director - The Wombats - 2007 WEA/14th Floor
The Slip - Children of December - Eisenhower - 2006 Bar/None
The Cliks - Oh Yeah - Snakehouse - 2007 Tommy Boy
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Porcupine Tree - Sentimental - Fear of a Blank Planet - 2007 Atlantic
Ola Podrida - Jordanna - Ola Podrida - 2007 Plug Research
Patrick Park - Nothing's Lost - Everyone's In Everyone - 2007 Curb Appeal
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Jets Overhead - Shadow Knows - Bridges - 2006 Microgroove
The Good, The Bad & The Queen - Herculean - The Good, The Bad & The Queen - 2007 Parlophone/Virgin
Andrew Bird - Scythian Empires - Armchair Apocrypha - 2007 Righteous Babe
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Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) - Raising Sand - 2007 Rounder
The La's - Timeless Melody - The La's - 1990 London
Lemon Jelly - Go - '64-'95 - 2005 XL
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Trees Outside the Academy
By
Thurston Moore
Release date: 18 September, 2007
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Friday, December 07, 2007
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12/7/07 - Gyroscope with Jon Kranz Playlist
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Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra - Darling Nikki - MTO Volume 1 - 2006 Sunnyside Records
Steven Wright - This Woman I Met - I Still Have a Pony - 2007 Comedy Central
Stevie Wonder - Superstition - The Essential Stevie Wonder - 2002 UTV
Bebel Gilberto - Next To You (Steve Hillier Version) - Bebel Gilberto Remixed - 2005 Six Degrees
Dosh - Steve the Cat - Anticon Label Sampler: 1999-2004 - 2004 Anticon
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Why? - The Hollows - The Hollows - 2007 ?
Bracken - We Cut The Tapes And Scatter [Steinbeck Ultramagnetic remix by Buddy Peace] - Remixes - 2007 ?
Robert Francis - One by One - One by One - 2007 ?
UNKLE - Hold My Hand (Ki:Theory Remix) - 2007 myspace.com/kitheory
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Okkervil River - You Can't Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man - The Stage Names - 2007 Jagjaguwar
PJ Harvey - When Under Ether - White Chalk - 2007 Island
Matthew Herbert - Nice Dream (feat. Mara Carlyle) - Exit Music - 2006 !K7
Radiohead - Blowout (feat. The Posies) - Pablo Honey - 1992 Capitol
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(fill) Orgone - Prism Break - The Killion Fields - 2007 ?
REM - So Fast, So Numb - New Adventures in Hi Fi - 1996 Capitol
Jane's Addiction - Ocean Size - Nothing's Shocking - 1988 Capitol
Smashing Pumpkins - Aeroplane Flies High - Judas 0 - 2003 Virgin
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Stars - Take Me To the Riot - In Our Bedroom After the War - 2007 Arts & Crafts
The Smiths - Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - Strangeways, Here We Come - 1990 Warner Bros
DJ BC (The Boston Mash-Up Project) - School's Easy Tears - DJBC - 200? djbc.net
Team 9 - Crazy Times - Gnarles Barkley 'Crazy' vs. Prince 'Sign O'The Times' - 2006 team9.net
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British Sea Power - Something Wicked - The Decline of British Sea Power - 2003 Rough Trade
PJ Harvey - Wicked Tongue - The Peel Sessions 1991-2004 - 2006 Island
Fink - This Is The Thing - Distance and Time - 2007 Ninja Tune
Barry Adamson - Something Wicked This Way Comes - Lost Highway OST - 1997 Interscope
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Lost Highway (1997 Film)
By
Christopher Williams
Release date: 18 February, 1997
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Friday, November 30, 2007
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11/30/07 - Gyroscope with Jon Kranz Playlist
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British Sea Power - Atom - Krankenhaus EP - 2007 Rough Trade
Robert Pollard - Rud Fins - Coast to Coast Carpet of Love - 2007 Merge
Sally Shapiro - He Keeps Me Alive - Disco Romance - 2007 Discokaine
Orba Squara - Perfect Timing (This Morning) - Sunshyness - 2007 Res Freq Recordings
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The Ponys - 1209 Seminary - Turn the Lights Out - 2007 Matador
Sea Wolf - You're a Wolf - Get To The River Before It Runs Too Low - 2007 Dangerbird
Seabear - I Sing I Swim - The Ghost That Carried Us Away - 2007 Morr Music
Doveman - Sunrise - With My Left Hand I Raise the Dead - 2007 Brassland
Doveman is the work of Thomas Bartlett, a twenty-five year old high school AND college dropout, that has played alongside everyone from Antony & the Johnsons and The National to David Byrne and Yoko Ono, of all people. With Doveman though, Bartlett comes off somewhere between the hushed folk of Iron & Wine, the sparse tones of The One AM Radio, and the melancholy of Leonard Cohen. With My Left Hand I Raise The Dead is Bartlett's second full length album. Due out on October 9th, the album is full of introspective melodies and Bartlett's beautiful, soft-spoken voice and isn't much of a departure from his previous material. It almost sounds like the soundtrack to a film at times. In any case, With My Left Hand... is definitely an album that you should listen to alone with headphones on. What it lacks in excitement and action, it makes up for in its simple subtleties that help to underscore the fact that you don't need loud bursts of music to make a statement.
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Tigercity - Are You Sensation - Pretend Not to Love - 2007 Self-released
Tiny Masters of Today - Hey Mr. DJ (CSS Remix) - Bang Bang Boom Cake - 2007 World's Fair
Sole & The Skyrider Band - Shipwreckers - Sole & The Skyrider Band - 2007 Anticon
Music from Flagstaff, AZ 3-piece, Sole & the skyrider band.
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Picture the voice of old school rocker Robert Smith (of the Cure) meeting new school can't sit still for a moment Jamie T and that's a close approximation of the new New Zealander crew Cut Off Your Hands. Prepare for six tracks on their debut Shaky Hands EP of some post-punk dance fury that's insistent you don't just sit there. And if you do, go back to your Cure albums, because you have some serious emotional issues that still need to be worked out!
Cut Off Your Hands - You and I - Cut Off Your Hands - 2007 I Am Sound Records
The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night - Staring At The Sea: The Singles 1979-1985 - 1985 Elektra
Band of Horses - Is There a Ghost - Cease to Begin - 2007 Sub Pop
Jamie T - Pacemaker - Panic Prevention - 2007 Caroline
Cut Off Your Hands - Tell Me About - Cut Off Your Hands - 2007 I Am Sound Records
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Foreign Born began in San Francisco during the late summer months of 2003, only to quickly relocate down south to Los Angeles. Their 3rd release and first full-length album "On the Wing Now" is perhaps my favorite new album of 2007. Somewhat of a sonic mash-up of U2, The Smiths, Jesus & Mary Chain and Echo & the Bunnymen, with maybe a dash of Kitchens of Distinction in there. (Is this suddenly sounding like a Pitchfork review or what?). Comparisons aside, the album is stellar from start to finish, with narely a weak track. If alternative radio latches onto "It Wasn't Said to Ask", "Letter of Inclusion" and/or "In the Shape," this album is going to explode. Kudos to the band for album closer "Never Wrong," a haunting rocker that would have felt right at home on the Bunnymen's "Ocean Rain."
Foreign Born - Into Your Dream - On the Wing Now - 2007 Dim Mak Records
Hot Springs - Headrush - Volcano (import) - 2007 Aquarius Music
Tab The Band - Secretary's Day - Pulling Out Just Enough to Win - 2007 North Street Records
The Raveonettes - Dead Sound - Lust Lust Lust - 2007 Columbia
Golden Animals - Do the Roar - Golden Animals EP - 2007 Happy Parts
That's Golden Animals, Brooklyn's answer to the sweet, care-free vibes of California's 70's free-love rock scene (one that Devendra often tries to channel). The songs on their debut self-titled EP come across as forgotten demos from The Byrds–charming rough cuts that would probably lose their value if they were any more produced. They've shared the stage with the likes of Beach House, Akron/Family, and they've been called "the future of folk" by V Magazine. Do they really match the kind of hype they've been getting? Let your ears do the decidin'. You can actually download the whole album online for free. Go to WHRO.org and find the link on the Gyroscope web page while your there.
Most people will probably agree that there's nothing wrong with having a little passion in one's work. Most understand it as an energy that often keeps us focused, that insists on a certain attention to detail. Since their formation in 2003 the members of the Brooklyn-based band Soft, have made a point to distinguish (and simultaneously market) themselves through such patiently engrossed craftsmanship. They've released their first full-length album that took them over 2 years to produce. Here's "Higher"...
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Soft - Higher - Gone Faded - 2007 Silver Sleeve
Booka Shade - Numbers - DJ Kicks - 2007 !K7
Mobius Band - Hallie - Heaven - 2007 Misra Records
iLiKETRAiNS - The Deception - Elegies To Lessons Learnt - 2007 Beggars Banquet
That's the latest from the Leeds-based group ILIKETRAINS who play a dark, atmospheric and dirty style of Rock similar to Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds. Their deadly-serious stance may drain the emotion out of you, but they give far more than they take. Certainly a band to listen to with the lights on.
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Silver Seas - Imaginary Girl - High Society - 2007 Cheap Lullaby
Yoav - Beautiful Lie - Charmed & Strange - 2007 Verve Forecast
Tim Williams - Novel - When Work Is Done - 2007 Dovecote
Nada Surf - See These Bones - Lucky - 2007 Barsuk
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(fill) Le Loup - We Are Gods! We Are Wolves! - The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly - 2007 Hardly Art
6:00 PM
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Friday, November 23, 2007
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11/23/07 - Gyroscope with Jon Kranz Playlist
0900
Damian Marley - Road to Zion - Welcome to Jamrock - 2005 Universal
Jon Kranz - Rooster - The Circular File - 2005 i8paste
Death Cab for Cutie - World Shut Your Mouth - Title and Registration EP - 2004 ??
Girls Against Boys - Let Me Come Back - Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby - 1994 Touch and Go
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Josh Rouse - Under Your Charms - 1972 - 2003 Rykodisk
Jeff Buckley - Grace - Live at Sin-E (Legacy Edition) - Columbia 2004
Pulp - A Little Soul - This Is Hardcore - ??
The The - True Happiness This Way Lies - Dusk - 1993 Epic
Gary Numan - Observer - The Pleasure Principle - 1979 Geffen
0935
Fila Brazilia - Billy Goat Groupies - Luck Be a Weirdo Tonght - ??
Caetano Veloso - Curucoo Paloma - Best of CV - 2003 Nonesuch
Jazzanova - No Use - In Between - ??
Meg Lee Chin - Bottle - Piece and Love - ??
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Jem - Wish I - Finally Woken - 2004 ATO
Weezer - Burnt Jamb - Washington DC Demo - ??
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The Crystal Method - Roadhouse Blues - Community Service 2 - ??
Worm Is Green - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Automagic - ??
Danger Doom - Benzie Box - The Mouse and The Mask - 2005 CN
Isaac Hayes - Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic - Can You Dig This? - 2005 ??
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Ray LaMontagne - Forever My Friend - Trouble - ??
Low Fidelity Allstars - Deep Ellum Hold On - Don't Be Afraid of Love - ??
Whiskeytown - Lo-Fi Tennessee Girl - Faithless Street - 1998 Outpost
Fatboy Slim (feat. Justin Robertson) - Push and Shove - Palookaville - ??
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Eels - Things the Grandchildren Should Know - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations - 2005 ??
Electrelane - If Not Now When? - Axes - 2005 ??
Earlimart - The Hidden Track - Treble and Tremble - 2004 ??
Pearl Jam - All Those Yesterdays - Yield - 1999 ??
5:59 AM
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