The Way Sound Leaves a Room was just released this month. An EP of covers and demos, it showcases Jaffe on numerous instruments she hadn’t tackled before, sounding beautiful as ever.
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Random Truths
Random Truths About… Sarah Jaffe
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Random Truths About… Damien Jurado
Damien Jurado has been one of the most influential and interesting songwriters in the Pacific Northwest for a decade. His new album, Saint Bartlett, which was expertly produced by Richard Swift, is one of the most listenable and lovely albums to come out in this already strong year of music.
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Random Truths About… John Vanderslice
John Vanderslice has been releasing solo albums for the past decade, as well as producing albums for such bands as Spoon and the Mountain Goats. He writes clean, clever music that often tackles the dark and the political while still offering sweet melodies and a warm analog sound. His 2009 release, Emerald City, is [...]
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Random Truths About… Simontronic
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major. 2. What are your vices? I speak my mind. 3. What is one of your prejudices? The clumsy media and their intrusive and often inaccurate portrayal of the public figure. 4. In what way do you [...]
Random Truths About… Matthew Gray
Interview with Denton, TX musician Matthew Gray of Matthew & the Arrogant Sea on the urge to live raw, dream silly, and decategorize everything. 1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? “Bewley In White” by Bibio. 2. What are your vices? Yo La Tengo, served with a whiskey sour and a [...]
Random Truths About… Miranda Lee Richards
Interview with vocalist behind Light of X about her fears, prejudices, and how she believes music can change lives 1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? I haven’t yet–I had to check a mix of my own this morning, very boring, but I can’t listen to music and work very well [...]
Random Truths About… Caribou
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? I’m afraid if I’m to be honest, it was one of my own tracks. I’m working on the video for our live show at the moment, so first thing in the morning I was listening to my own album to work out how to [...]
Random Truths About… Karl Blau
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? "Ridin’ Dirty," well at least in my head 2. What are your vices? Pipes, pancakes, and popcorn 3. What is one of your prejudices? I prejudge little f’n plastic bottles of water. 4. In what way do you think music has the ability to [...]
Random Truths About… Brother Reade
Listen to tracks from Brother Reade’s new album, Rap Music, on MySpace. 1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? Speakerboxxx/The Love Below: Outkast. 2. What are your vices? Bass, Burritos, Boat Shoes. Typefaces. Travel. Mysterious and Beautiful Women. Late ’60s Chevrolets. 3. What is one of your prejudices? Prejudiced against "art" [...]
Random Truths About… Kirby Dominant
Kirby Dominant is one of the major voices in Bay Area independent hip-hop, collaborating with Anticon folks and Living Legend folks and creating a personal, creative sound completely alien to Oakland’s hyphy trend. 1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? My own music. A song called “Paddy Cake.” 2. What are [...]
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Random Truths About… Rudresh Mahanthappa
Interview with alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, a Guggenheim fellow who draws heavily from his Indian ancestry to compose highly acclaimed jazz compositions 1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? Musique des Pygmées Bibayak. Some amazing pygmy music from Gabon. 2. What are your vices? I watch way too much TV. Is [...]
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Random Truths About… Eric Whitacre
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? The sound of my one-year old son ‘singing’ me awake. 5:15 a.m. 2. What are your vices? I can’t say that I really believe in ‘vices.’ I do have a ‘weakness’ for food. 3. What is one of your prejudices? Hmmm… I guess against [...]
Random Truths About… SJ Esau
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? “Man’s Name Is Legion” by Safetyword. 2. What are your vices? Useful. 3. What is one of your prejudices? Umbrellas. 4. In what way do you think music has the ability to change the way people live their lives? They can hum while doing [...]
Random Truths About… Rusty Santos
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? Today I was working on something. I’ve been listening very carefully but with a different ear than on those days when I wake up and listen to finished music. 2. What are your vices? I think vices matter if you’re in a relationship, but [...]
Random Truths About… Lucky Dragons
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? Mystical Unionists "Sketches for the Craft of Consciousness" 2. What are your vices? Staying up all night doing nothing much. 3. What is one of your prejudices? "Busy" is a shallow attitude. 4. In what way do you think music has the ability to [...]
Random Truths About… Anna-Lynne Williams of Trespassers William
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? Some Joanna Newsom bootleg performances of new material. 2. What are your vices? Thinking too much about food, emotional outbursts, anxiety. 3. What is one of your prejudices? I don’t like people whose tastes are too “cool”–about clothes, music, or anything. If you can [...]
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Random Truths About… Alela Diane
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? Borrowing a friend’s vinyl collection. Today began with a nice gem with dulcimer called Celebrations for a Grey Day by Mimi and Richard Farina. It was the first time I heard it. 2. What are your vices? I don’t know if I’d call it [...]
Random Truths About… Alexis Gideon
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? "Lost One" -Jay-Z. This song is sooooooo good. 2. What are your vices? Reading in the bathtub until I prune. 3. What is one of your prejudices? Bell peppers. Yuck. 4. In what way do you think music has the ability to change the [...]
Random Truths About… Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon talks about his vices, prejudices, and the best piece of music he’s ever created. Listen to Dan Deacon at http://www.myspace.com/dandeacon Sample Album by Dan Deacon: Acorn Master 1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? Elton John: Various tracks on my girlfriend’s iTunes. 2. What are your vices? I binge [...]
Random Truths About… Jamie of Xiu Xiu
Listen to "Clowne Towne" (mp3) off Xiu Xiu’s Fabulous Muscles album. 1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? This is horribly perfect. We are in Madrid today and heard “This Charming Man” (Smiths song) at lunch. I am not making this up. 2. What are your vices? Drinking, sex with people [...]
Random Truths About… Spires That in the Sunset Rise
Listen to tracks from Spires That in the Sunset Rise’s new album, Four Winds The Walker. 1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? Today I listened to my band first since we are mixing and recording our new album. 2. What are your vices? Oh god, caffeine and alcoholic addictions mostly. [...]
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Random Truths About… Stephen Hartke
Hartke is one of the most exciting contemporary composers, writing orchestral and chamber music that blends the most experimental aspects of concert music with simpler elements of folk songs, and the comprehensible structures of song forms. Listen to his piece “The King of the Sun.” 1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to [...]
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Random Truths About… Jana Hunter
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? I haven’t yet; I’ll come back to it. Nina Simone – "Here Comes the Sun" 2. What are your vices? Nothing out of the ordinary. Lately it’s been more drinking than not drinking. 3. What is one of your prejudices? Oh, gosh. What isn’t? 4. [...]
Random Truths About… Grizzly Bear
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? Shugo Tokumaru 2. What are your vices? Alcohol and Cock 3. What is one of your prejudices? Uppity Preggers 4. In what way do you think music has the ability to change the way people live their lives? Catharsis 5. When you go to [...]
Random Truths About… Brightblack Morning Light
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? "Chimicum Rain" by Linda Perhacs 2. What are your vices? Really potent sativa. Not indica, which is the paranoid kind. 3. What is one of your prejudices? It’s hard to accept that there aren’t more anti-war protests on a monthly basis in every city [...]
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Random Truths About… Jenny of Erase Errata
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? "I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)" by The Cox Family 2. What are your vices? Weekly Entertainment Magazines Mayonnaise 3. What is one of your prejudices? I never date people my friends have gone out with. 4. In what way do you think music [...]
Random Truths About… John Olson of Wolf Eyes
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? Scrapper Blackwell anthology LP 2. What are your vices? Sewing & Beer 3. What is one of your prejudices? Cops 4. In what way do you think music has the ability to change the way people live their lives? Positive and Negative…the whole gambit. [...]
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Random Truths About… Keith Fullerton Whitman (AKA Hrvatski)
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? Yoshi Wada "Lament for the Rise and Fall of the Elephantine Crocodile" (1982) – Side Two 2. What are your vices? I don’t know if it’s a vice, but Espresso. Also, I’m starting to feel that the Internet is becoming a vice. 3. What [...]
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Random Truths About… Mick from Vibracathedral Orchestra
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? Nico – "Chelsea Girls" 2. What are your vices? I smoke cigarettes. 3. What is one of your prejudices? Internet newsgroup music critics. 4. In what way do you think music has the ability to change the way people live their lives? Isn’t music [...]
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Random Truths About… Cloudland Canyon
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? Something by Bukka White 2. What are your vices? I am not very proud of my vices, but I made the experience that people without vices usually don’t have virtues either. 3. What is one of your prejudices? Animal Collective ruined a whole generation [...]
