Devendra Banhart News

I'm afraid to say anything. Let's back into thisone with the sort of SAT analogy that can help us tidy our thoughts, like " painting is to frame as freak is to cage " - yessir, that'll do.

Hippies get a bad rap these days, but you've got to hand it to them: They know how to have a good time at a show.

ONE of America's biggest "cult" acts comes to Cornwall on Tuesday. Six Organs of Admittance are best known for their remarkable album School of the Flower , which garnered the rare achievement of appearing in both The Wire magazine and Mojo's 50 best albums of 2005 lists while also being named by Devendra Banhart as one of his all time favourite ...

You get what you pay for in a concert by Devendra Banhart, the standard-bearer of this decade's freak-folk movement.

WEDNESDAY: Baltimore's got your jam itch covered: Local favorite the Bridge delivers two sets at Rams Head Live with the Ryan Montbleau Band .

The 28-year-old singer/songwriter Devendra Banhart has been the figurehead for the wave of "New Weird Americana," also simply termed, "Freak Folk." Now, under the banner of a major label, Banhart, whose persona seems to put the "freak" into folk, finds himself in an interesting crossroads.

WEDNESDAY: Eccentric Venezuelan folk-rocker Devendra Banhart will be at the 9:30 Club tonight with his usual Indian-inspired folk music.

Early on in the new film "The Family Jams,'' the camera zooms in on Devendra Banhart's face, a thick tangle of dark hair, darker eyes, and a beard straight out of the Book of Exodus.

A talk with Devendra Banhart is like a front-loading washer stuffed with smiles.

Formerly bearded weirdo Devendra Banhart releases another album of strange folk with What Will We Be .

Released: Jun 3, 2008 Genre: Indie Rock Label: Sub Pop Records Number Of Tracks: 11 Fleet Foxes are developing a gorgeous sound, that mixes light '60's and '70s classic rock with soaring vocal harmonies and woodsy folk guitar style.

WITH HIS THIN frame, throwback wardrobe, flowing beard and wispy delivery, Devendra Banhart was the freakiest of the freak folkers, that wave of lo-fi acoustic strummers who prized the weird, offputting intimacy of off-the-map '60s folk.

His most popular tag, "freak folk," implies some sort of birthright insanity; it's entirely possible that Venezuelan-born Devendra Banhart is crafting his peyote sheik persona deliberately in every step.

His hair long , his face slightly obscured by five o'clock shadow , and wearing jeans and a T-shirt underneath an open long-sleeve button-up, Banhart sang roughly half of his new What Will We Be during a 90-minute set at Chicago's Vic Theater Monday night that doubled as a nice overview of his work to date.

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Soulbook is nothing new for Rod. Before setting his sights on fame and fortune the young Londoner released a string of solo albums dotted with Etta James and Temptations' tunes that prompted James Brown to call him the greatest white soul singer alive.

Fabulous Furry Freak Brother: Idiosyncratic folk-rocker Devendra Banhart and his five-piece band play the Higher Ground Ballroom on Thursday.

From outward appearances, singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart wouldn't appear to feel encumbered by much of anything.

Devendra Banhart puts freak-folk on the map with the psychedelic sound of What Will We Be By: Caity Cudworth Posted: 11/10/09 11/10/09 - The world isn't always a kind place for fanatical hippies.

Regina Spektor proved that a proud anti-folk member could make it work for a major label, though her success didn't exactly offer clues as to who would be next.