Andy Cabic

Gnomonsong Gnomonsong is a record label formed by Devendra Banhart and Andy Cabic in partnership with Revolver USA. Banhart and Cabic do not deal with the business aspect of the label as much as work with the artists. The label's first...

In this article: Gnomonsong, Rio en Medio, Jana Hunter, Michael Hurley, Devendra Banhart, and Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom

...Union) It was never going to be easy to follow up a debut album that featured Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom, and, sure enough, Andy Cabic's fourth Vetiver album finds the San Francisco-based musician treading water. It's a very...

In this article: Vetiver, Bella Union, Vetiver, Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, and San Francisco

...band still going by Tyrannosaurus Rex. But on Vetiver's recent album, "To Find Me Gone," which provided much of the evening's material, Cabic has shifted from composing gentle, acoustic fare to a more pleasing, polished country-rock sound that...

In this article: Vetiver, Neil Young, Marc Bolan, VH1, Gram Parsons, Devendra Banhart, On the Beach, and To Find Me Gone

...(2007). The first Papercuts album, Rejoicing Songs was released in 2000 on the Cassingle USA label, with three further albums following, the latest two on the Gnomonsong label, run by Devendra Banhart and Andy Cabic of Vetiver. His 2007...

In this article: Vetiver, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Gnomonsong, Devendra Banhart, and Quaaludes

...Andy Cabic. As he tells World Cafe host David Dye in an interview, Cabic moved to San Francisco to attend art school, and it was there he befriended Devendra Banhart and other likeminded experimental folk musicians. Since then,...

In this article: Vetiver, San Francisco, and Devendra Banhart

Vetiver (band) Vetiver are an American folk band headed by songwriter Andy Cabic and often joined by Devendra Banhart, cellist Alissa Anderson, drummer Otto Hauser, violinist Carmen Biggers, guitarists Kevin Barker and Sanders Trippe, and...

In this article: Vetiver, The Raymond Brake, Vetiver, Vashti Bunyan, FatCat Records, V2 Records, and Joanna Newsom

After five years of plugging away under the shadow of cosmic folk icon Devendra Banhart - he was briefly a member of Vetiver, while Cabic spent time recording and touring with his band - all the hard work is beginning to pay off. The...

In this article: Vetiver, San Francisco, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco Chronicle, South by Southwest, Fleet Foxes, Black Crowes, Gary Louris, and Devendra Banhart

...Devendra Banhart, Vetiver tended a warm middle ground between Banhart's more eccentric freak-folk tendencies and frontman Andy Cabic's adherence to the conventions of late-'60s country-rock. Though the band continued to tour with Banhart,...

In this article: Vetiver, Ryan Adams, Hunky Dory, Slant Magazine, Garland Jeffreys, Loudon Wainwright III, and Cat Power

...those bands. It's excellent recent album "Can't Go Back" was released on the label run by freak-folk kingpins Devendra Banhart and Andy Cabic (Vetiver), and Papercuts main man Jason Quever borrows from both, using the double-tracked vocals...

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