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  Devendra Banhart, 'Mala' (Nonesuch)

  March 13, 2013 – Somewhere in Topanga Canyon (or perhaps on Manhattan's Lower East Side), Devendra Banhart sits, musing that he might have been crowned King of Chillwave just as easily as he was dubbed Lord of Freak Folk. The Niño Rojo. The Man Who Would Be (Ariel) Pink. And for wont of huaraches, the kingdom was lost. …
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  Devendra Banhart Riffs on Britpop, Drag, and German Mystics

  March 7, 2013 – Devendra Banhart, 31, greets me with an awkward hug, attempting to not get his paint-covered hands all over my coat. We're at his studio on Manhattan's Lower East Side, which he and fiancée Ana Kraš, a striking Serbian artist, have recently acquired and are in the process of renovating. The colorful lamps she's designed line a table in the back and Devendra's whimsical drawings cover the walls. …
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  10 Albums You Can Hear Now: Dave Grohl, Marnie Stern, 'Spring Breakers,' and More

  March 7, 2013 – For this week's round of ready-to-stream albums, we present an LP from current SPIN cover star Dave Grohl and the newest full-length from recent SPIN profile subject William Tyler. Grab a pair of headphones and plug into those two records, as well as the eight others below:1) Dave Grohl and Friends, Sound City: Real to Reel. "Stevie Nicks sounds as urgent and bewitching as ever... …
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  Hear Devendra Banhart's Sweetly Sweaty 'Mi Negrita' En Español

  February 8, 2013 – Devendra Banhart continues to parcel out bits from his forthcoming eighth album, Mala (out March 12 via Nonesuch), with the newly unveiled "Mi Negrita," which can be heard up above. Where the surreal "Never Seen Such Good Things" offsets a marching drum beat with drippy synths, the flirty, mostly acoustic "Mi Negrita" settles for a simple shimmy as the Venezuela-raised Banhart serenades his lady love in Spanish. …
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  Hear Devendra Banhart's Zombies-Bitten 'Never Seen Such Good Things'

  January 23, 2013 – Devendra Banhart will return with his eighth studio album, Mala, on March 12 (out through Nonesuch), and in anticipation of the folk-gypsy's follow-up to 2009's What Will We Be, the NME has shared "Never Seen Such Good Things," a Zombies-inflected daydream featured on the upcoming LP. …
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  Neil Young Celebrates 25 Years of Bridge School Benefits With All-Star Show

  October 24, 2011 –  …
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  LISTEN: Banhart, Beck Movie Soundtrack Collabo

  August 4, 2010 – Director Todd Solondz is know for his dark, satirical tales from American suburbia (Welcome to the Dollhouse). Among his fans are Beck and Devendra Banhart, who collaborated on the title track for his latest movie Life During Wartime. …
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  Freak Out: Devendra Banhart Kicks Off Tour!

  November 17, 2009 – His hair long (but not excessively so), his face slightly obscured by five o'clock shadow (but not fully-bearded), and wearing jeans and a T-shirt underneath an open long-sleeve button-up, Devendra Banhart sang roughly half of his new What Will We Be (Warner Bros.) 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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  Tough Questions for Devendra Banhart

  October 21, 2009 – Born in Texas but raised in his mother's native Venezuela, Devendra Banhart has built an enviable career out of being an outsider. The 28-year-old singer-songwriter broke out in 2002 with a lo-fi album made up of largely folky ditties he left on people's answering machines, quickly amassing a passionate following. …
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• Devendra Banhart, 'What Will We Be' (Reprise)

  October 10, 2009 – Nobody comes to a Devendra Banhart record for trenchant insight into the human condition. "All my thoughts are hairs on a wild, wild boar," he muses here on "Chin Chin & Muck Muck." Instead, Banhart's albums offer ashram-appropriate guitar strums, trippy-hippie tone poetry and, if you're lucky, at least one tune where he sings from the perspective of a rodent. …
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