Devendra Banhart

The Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Week

For any show in town see our regularly-updated concert calendar. Monday, May 13 Torches THE ECHO Torches are an L.A. band (the band that was once Torches in Trees, if your indie rock database needs an update) who've submerged themselves completely in the same kind of anthemic, happy-sad music that ... More >>

FYF Fest 2013 Lineup Announced

The lineup for FYF Fest 2013 was announced this morning and features Saturday headliners My Bloody Valentine and Sunday headliners the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Artists including TV on the Radio, Flag, Deerhunter, MGMT, Beach House, Yo La Tengo, The Breeders, Devendra Banhart, Solange and Shlohmo will also p ... More >>

Music Picks: Rhye, Papa and Motörhead

Music Picks: Sinead O'Connor, Ryan Adams, Busdriver, Matthew Dear

Also, Wye Oak, Jeff Lorber Band, Hiromi and others

Gregory Rogove's Piana Remixes at Human Resources: Like Performance Art Meets A Session of MTV Unplugged

Diana GarciaPiano, new-agey Himalayan salt lamps, and gorilla hands on a typewriter. What's not to like?​It's like that party you've been hoping to get invited to for months now and you finally did, only it's a Wednesday night at 7 p.m. Oh, well... Those of us not cool enough to arrive fashion ... More >>

Best Posts Of The Week

​We've got nothing but love for Heavy D, who died this week at his Beverly Hills home. Dan Hyman wrote a touching memorial for a man who was a pioneer of the hip-hop/R&B hybrid. This week will be remembered for sunnier news as well, however: We finally enacted Nigel Tufnel day. And it's toda ... More >>

Wretches & Jabberers

Grammy Party Report #3: Relentless Rhythms at Roots Jam and The Black Keys on Deck at Hemingways

Lina LecaroRoots' Capt. Kirk Douglas and Jimmy Fallon- less talkin,' more rockin.'​ You never know who might pop up on stage at the Roots Jam, which was, with the exception of Clive Davis' A(ss)-list kiss/croon-a-thon, the most buzzed about bash Saturday night. It was wishful thinking of cour ... More >>

Exclusive: 'Lambhair McDaniel,' by Devendra Banhart Favorite, What Laura Says

What Laura Says​Phoenix-based odd-folk/soul ensemble What Laura Says plays Three Clubs tonight as part of the Rumble Tour with A B & The Sea and So Many Wizards. The five-piece has a new album just out, Bloom Cheek, on Terpsikhore Records, the North Carolina label founded by the Annuals. It' ... More >>

Tonight: Devendra Banhart at the Wiltern

Dress by Rodarte (no, really)​[From our LA Weekly music newsletter, for which you should sign up ASAP:] Devendra Banhart has been called a lot of things: "corporate sellout, freak-folk icon, neo-hippie dilettante"--and that's in one recent article alone. But regardless of your personal stanc ... More >>

Music Picks: Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Donovan, Ana Tijoux, John Wicks

Also, Janelle Monae, Devendra Banhart, the Low Anthem and others

Holy Cosmic Anus!: Devendra Banhart's New Video Features MGMT, GZA, Space Suppository

So, Rolling Stone magazine declared "Freak Folk" over a couple of months ago. They might have been onto something, because Joanna Newsom is now on some kind of "19th-century-courtesan meets Janis Joplin's Pearl in a Betsy Smith bordello" trip and our boy Devendra Banhart trimmed his notorious facial ... More >>

There Go the Zeros

The passing of the first decayed

Tonight in LA: Devendra Curates, Japanese Motors Revs, Girls Pop Pills, Last American Buffalo Rises, Andy Clockwise

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, from the revived and consistently interesting Slumberland Records roster, is at the Echo. They're playing with San Francisco band Girls, newly signed to Matador Records, who made a splash this week with a great interview they did with the Guardian UK (via The Daily ... More >>

This Weekend in Los Angeles Music: So Many Dynamos, Sleepy Brown, Amadou & Miriam, Cage

This weekend in LA: music. FRIDAY Three Mile Pilot was one of the oddest avant-punk bands of the 1990s, a San Diego outift whose members went on to gig with Pinback and the Black Heart Procession. They've reunited, and are performing at the Echoplex with Optigonally Yours, which features Rob Cr ... More >>

ROCK PICKS: CEU, GIRL IN A COMA, COLDPLAY, GRAVEYARD

Also, Amadou & Mariam,The Pains of Being Pure, Jason Collett, The Smithereens, and others.

I FOUND SOME TATTERED NOTES ON THE STREET AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS MULTIBOOK DEAL

Coachella Adds The Orb, Murder City Devils, Etienne de Crecy and Others to the Bill

In its new web 'zine, Coachella Digital, the Coachella festival, which this morning confirmed that Amy Winehouse wouldn't be performing (surprise surprise, unfortunately), announced the addition of five new acts to the roster. None of them are U2, Pavement or the Smiths, nor are the Beatles yet re ... More >>

Devendra Banhart's Smokey Rolls ... and Megapuss Releases to Arrive on Vinyl Next Week

It's a mystery exactly why it's taken so long for Devendra Banhart's most recent solo album, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, to be pressed on vinyl. The album, which was released digitally and on CD in the fall of 2007, didn't exactly burn up the sales charts, but we would have at least expected ... More >>

Let the Listing Begin: Ten Great Folk Records of the Past Decade

You're going to be seeing a lot of lists in the next few weeks. Lists of bests and worsts of year, lists of disappointments, lists of dance mixes and YouTube clips. We figured we'd begin our weeks of lists with one that captures not the year in music, but one aspect of the decade in music: new wei ... More >>

La Boum With a View

Plus, Part Time Punks Fest and more

YES, MORE CELEB DJ SETS

What do Bloc Party, the actor Ryan Gosling and Chromeo have in common? All are non-DJs who gave the decks a spin this week. Actually Chromeo's tonight, so if you're looking for something to do after their Fonda show, hop on down to the Ivar for the after-party where they'll be attacking the wheels o ... More >>

Rock Picks: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Neil Innes, Cheap Trick

Also, Nikka Costa, Willie Nile, We Are Scientists, and more

Weekend Music: Wolf Eyes, Megapuss, RZA, Bostich Fussible, and More

FRIDAY, JUNE 21 Devendra wears his mega-dick and plays in Megapuss. Crazy. If you don't know by now, Megapuss is the side project Devendra Banhart (sorry, but if he's ballsy enough to put those glasses on in front of paparazzi, we're kind of compelled to use the photo). He's playing a secret show ... More >>

Tonight at Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre: Dublab Goes Dark

This should be fantastic tonight: installment five of Dublab After Dark, an ongoing visual extension of the aurally amazing Dublab collective. They explain what will happen tonight better than we could: "The web radio super station your ears love also loves your eyes. This fifth in dublab’s scre ... More >>

Devendra Banhart, Orpheum, 10/13

Devendra Banhart Orpheum Theatre, 10/13 By John Curry In every generation of pop music, someone comes along with a fabulous persona to wrap generously around their art. Not since Ziggy has there been anyone as wonderfully camp and exploitive as Devendra Banhart. The songs he played from the new rec ... More >>

Beirut free show at Amoeba tonight

Missed the sold out Beirut shows? Ahh, lucky you. They're playing at 6:30 tonight at Amoeba Records. Go on over and check it out or read Rena Kosnett's review to convince yourself not to miss it. Photo by Rena Kosnett Amoeba will have a webstream of the performance on their website, but come o ... More >>

Rock Picks: Akron/Family, Duncan Sheik, PJ Harvey, Jill Scott

For the week of Oct. 11 - 18

Devendra Banhart Curls Up in Your Hand

A wide-ranging interview on Tarot cards, Topanga Canyon, the tackiness of the "freak folk" label and his wonderous new album, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

The (Ugly, Nasty, Pissed) Men Among Children

With Deerhunter, The Horrors and Pissed Jeans

Back in the USSR

“Pravda” at Disney Concert Hall

Folk Yeah! to Big Sur

I just got back from the Folk Yeah festival up in Big Sur this weekend, having journeyed up the PCH with my man to attend the two-day gathering in the redwoods. We found an ecelctic bunch of music lovers hanging out among the trees, with a heavy bearded contingent (Devendra Banhart's included),  ... More >>

Arthur Mag Dead

ARTHUR MAG IS DEAD. This on Pitchfork:  Hippies, stoners, and folk freaks the world over wept today as it was announced that Arthur magazine will close its doors after five glorious years of delivering discourse and pretty pictures on art, music, and more to our marijuana-stained hands. As con ... More >>

Killer Fashion Instincts

Quick: name that band. Who is it, the latest art damaged country punks to stagger out of Joshua Tree? Some long lost side project of J.D. Souther, Jackson Browne and Neil Young? The Devendra Banhart fan club? Any way you look at 'em, their beards are impressive: it takes a long time, and a total dis ... More >>

What the Heck Is That?

Arthur Nights, the festival you never expected

Rock Picks

For September 7-14

The Devendra Detail

FEATHERS, ENTRANCE, JANA HUNTER, WHITE WHITE QUILT, ERIC ERNEST JOHNSON at El Cid, July 18

Mush Is Good Music

Mysto Laurel Canyon indie label scores again with Tree Colored See

Festivus Maximus

Do you enjoy crowds, music and exhaustion?

Satire, Punk and Politics

Or, black people don’t like George Bush

Arthurfest

So Many Beards

First annual ArthurFest promises extreme heaviosity

Boys Do Cry

Antony and the Johnsons’ uncut emotions

What We Talk About When We Talk About Harp Players

Joanna Newsom is a riddle wrapped in heartstrings

Call me Nostradamus

10 signs of the apocalypse

Wanted: Good Times

Vetiver

The Kids Aren’t Alright . . . They’re Amazing

Why what was old and lost and a bit odd is young and new — and exciting — again

Love or Fusion

The Year In Music