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Random Truths About… Sarah Jaffe

By Random Truths | Published: November 8, 2011
Sarah Jaffe

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 About… Damien Jurado

By Random Truths | Published: June 6, 2010
damien jurado

Damien Jurado has been one of the most influential and interesting songwriters in the Pacific Northwest for a decade.

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Random Truths About… John Vanderslice

By Random Truths | Published: May 9, 2010
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.

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Random Truths About… Simontronic

By Random Truths | Published: December 10, 2009
Simontronic

“I find the most visceral and stimulating form of music to be classical. It comes to you from a different angle.”

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Random Truths About… Matthew Gray

By Random Truths | Published: September 30, 2009
Musician Matthew Gray performing

“I don’t know if music itself changes the way people live their lives, I think it’s the other way around.”

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Random Truths About… Miranda Lee Richards

By Random Truths | Published: September 17, 2009
Miranda Lee Richards

“Music has the ability to inspire and elevate our moods. It also has the ability to make us feel "cool" or understood. That’s why a person’s taste in music so quickly defines them.”

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Random Truths About… Caribou

By Random Truths | Published: August 2, 2007

“I’m increasingly intolerant of religious fundamentalism of any variety. Irrationality gets under my skin.”

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Random Truths About… Karl Blau

By Random Truths | Published: August 1, 2007

“I don’t have much of an opinion on the music I make. I am more of a catch-and-release type creator. I guess I like the ones best that I’m hands off of.”

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Random Truths About… Brother Reade

By Random Truths | Published: July 11, 2007
Brother Reade

“There are certain records that your first encounter with them have a huge impact, and you can look back and see them as huge turning points. When you make music, I think you’re always subconsciously striving to pay that debt back to the world.”

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Random Truths About… Kirby Dominant

By Random Truths | Published: June 25, 2007
Kirby Dominant

“I think music is a beautiful vehicle to teach, thus educating the masses can bring about change.”

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Random Truths About… Rudresh Mahanthappa

By Random Truths | Published: May 21, 2007
rudresh mahanthappa

“I’m trying to get back to a carefree creative mindset. It’s hard when the realities of adulthood rear their ugly heads.”

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Random Truths About… Eric Whitacre

By Random Truths | Published: May 7, 2007
Eric Whitacre

“Music is at the core of that which makes us human.”

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Random Truths About… SJ Esau

By Random Truths | Published: April 23, 2007
SJ Esau

“That’s not a real nipple.”

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Random Truths About… Rusty Santos

By Random Truths | Published: April 10, 2007
Rusty Santos

“It’s the closest thing to a religion for many people I know. With music you get less guilt and violence.”

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Random Truths About… Lucky Dragons

By Random Truths | Published: March 27, 2007
Lucky Dragons

“Music justifies things very gently, and it combines well with other things to make up one’s public identity.”

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Random Truths About… Anna-Lynne Williams of Trespassers William

By Random Truths | Published: January 8, 2007
Anna-Lynne Williams

“If you can be so passionate about something that you’re a nerd, then that is infectious. But if you like something just to the point of excluding others, then you suck.”

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Random Truths About… Alela Diane

By Random Truths | Published: December 21, 2006
Alela Diane

“Music can make you dance, and dancing can make you feel free.”

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Random Truths About… Alexis Gideon

By Random Truths | Published: December 21, 2006
Alexis Gideon

“When I am not musically productive, I get depressed. When you are really focused while creating it feels as though you have caught something that is floating by and are riding it. It is not coming from you but through you.”

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Random Truths About… Dan Deacon

By Random Truths | Published: November 20, 2006
Dan Deacon

“I am too quick to assume someone is boring before I get to know them.”

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Random Truths About… Jamie of Xiu Xiu

By Random Truths | Published: November 13, 2006
Xiu Xiu

“How about Garbage Man of Super Donk?”

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Random Truths About… Spires That in the Sunset Rise

By Random Truths | Published: October 30, 2006
Spires that in the Sunset Rise

“I do think the band name has worked, because I don’t completely understand it and that is how I feel about our music.”

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Random Truths About… Stephen Hartke

By Random Truths | Published: October 23, 2006
Stephen Hartke

“The fact is, I don’t listen to recorded music every day. I rather think we hear too much music nowadays, and it ceases to be special.”

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Random Truths About… Jana Hunter

By Random Truths | Published: October 16, 2006
Jana Hunter

“People can affect a powerful force in their lives through music, as much or more than any art. But change is a person’s responsibility and privilege.”

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Random Truths About… Grizzly Bear

By Random Truths | Published: September 27, 2006
Grizzly Bear band photo

“Naming music is hard and weird.”

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Random Truths About… Brightblack Morning Light

By Random Truths | Published: September 25, 2006
Brightblack Morning Light

“A tired mind won’t change, so maybe some music can awaken aspects of the mind that allows for a rebirth.”

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Random Truths About… Jenny of Erase Errata

By Random Truths | Published: September 15, 2006

“I think music is very powerful at setting the mood. If you want to feel happy or sad or empowered or hopeless, particular songs can help you accomplish that.”

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Random Truths About… John Olson of Wolf Eyes

By Random Truths | Published: September 12, 2006
Wolf Eyes

“I’m named after my dad’s best friend who died in Vietnam. Appropriate or not, that’s what I got to work with.”

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Random Truths About… Keith Fullerton Whitman (AKA Hrvatski)

By Random Truths | Published: September 5, 2006
Keith Fullerton Whiteman

“I think that some of my music can make people feel a wide range of human emotions in a short period of time.”

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Random Truths About… Mick from Vibracathedral Orchestra

By Random Truths | Published: September 1, 2006
Vibracathedral Orchestra

“There’s something so spiritual and necessary about music that I’m sure people’s lives would be different without it.”

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Random Truths About… Cloudland Canyon

By Random Truths | Published: August 24, 2006

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 [...]

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